The Gender and Genocide Project.  This joint project on historical gender-based crimes examines their relationship to mass atrocities and introduces the concept of gender-based analysis for senior leaders.  Partners include the National Defense University, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and various university scholars in Europe and the US.  Collaborators also include DoD and STATE officials working on Women, Peace, and Security initiatives.

A Digital Case Study of the Leadership and Character of LTG (R) Roméo Dallaire.  This study examines the actions of LTG Dallaire, the Force Commander of the UN Mission in Rwanda, during the Rwandan Genocide.  Partners include the Department of Geography, Notre Dame, and LTG Roméo Dallaire.  The case study will have embedded documents, video, interactive maps, and interactive timelines.

The Mass Atrocity Early Warning Mobile Application.  This multi-university and multi-agency project aims to predict mass atrocity and widely disseminate vetted information about those threats.  Partners include the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Air Force Academy, Dartmouth College, Penn State, and the Center for the Prevention of Genocide.

The Violent Non-state Actors’ Database.  This multi-university and multi-agency project on the development of violent non-state actors aims to link the fields of atrocity prevention, organized crime, and terrorism in order to develop a comprehensive historical database of violent non-state actors.  The long-term goal is to better study how violent non-state actors transform and better predict which ones might become capable of committing mass atrocities.

The Virtual Liberator/Survivor Project.  As survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides dwindle in number, scholars have sought alternative ways to preserve and convey their unique experiences.  This project, a cooperative effort of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Departments of Foreign Language and Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, the Institute of Creative Technology, and the Shoah Foundation, seeks to utilize interactive holograms of genocide survivors and liberators in foreign language classes to test if they build compassion and empathy and if they enhance language learning.

The Ritchie Boys Project.  Camp Ritchie played a crucial role in the development of American intelligence and interrogation commissioned and non-commissioned officers during the Second World War.  Many of its trainees were Jewish refugees from Hitler’s Europe. Their contributions to the defeat of Nazism – the story of refugees contributing to the defense of their adopted country and becoming Americans – deserves much greater recognition than it has previously received.  This long-term project, which aims to produce scholarly work and a feature film, will address that need.  Partners include the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the Military Intelligence Museum and Archive at Fort Huachuca, the Center for Military History and the National Museum of American Jewish Military History.  Multiple surviving “Ritchie Boys” are also contributing oral histories and artifacts to the project.

The Treaty Violations Program. Human rights, espionage, deportations, show trials and the rhetoric and memory of the Holocaust.  This is an individual research project