Are We as Area Studies Scholars Guilty of Negligence in Allowing Genocides to Happen in the Regions we Study?

Main author: Charney, Michael W.
Format: Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs           
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Summary: Foreign scholars CAN help to prevent genocide again. If we’re waiting for policymakers to prevent things on their own and save ourselves the trouble so that we can take a well-funded research trip and sit outside a coffee shop in Naypyitaw or Yangon, why should the rest of the world have any interest in reading anything we have to write? Scholarship and research should mean something.
Language: English
Published: 2021