Holocaust Museum Official to Speak on Genocide
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 3, 2004
CONTACT: Joe Wills, Public Affairs
Tel: 530-898-4143
Holocaust Museum Official to Speak on Genocide
Jerry Fowler, director of the United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum’s Committee of Conscience, will speak on the topic, Genocide in the 21st Century, Thursday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Harlen Adams Theatre, PAC 144. The talk is free and open to the public.
A major focus of Fowler’s address will be the tragedy taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan, where approximately 100,000 people in several ethnic groups have been killed by militia attacks. Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, in remarks in July, called Sudan “today’s world capital of human pain, suffering and agony.”
The lecture is sponsored by the Modern Jewish Studies Program and the California State Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance, with additional support from Building Bridges, a CSU, Chico group committed to increasing understanding and respect for all people.
Fowler is the former legislative counsel for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, addressing issues such as refugee and asylum policy. He is the author of the essay, “Out of that Darkness: Preventing Genocide in the 21st Century,” published in the 2nd edition of “Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views.”
Fowler has taught at George Washington University Law School and is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Princeton University. He served in the U.S. Army from 1983 to 1987.
Fowler visited Sudanese refugee camps in January, and published an article on the crisis in the June 6 Washington Post.
The goal of the Holocaust Memorial and Museum’s Committee of Conscience is “to alert the national conscience, influence policymakers, and stimulate worldwide action to confront and work to halt acts of genocide or related crimes against humanity.”
United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum, located in Washington, D.C., opened in 1993. Approximately 20.8 million people have visited the museum since its opening.
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