One of the overall objectives of the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies is to train a searchlight on genocide and related human rights violations. To fulfil this part of our mandate, the HL-Center conducts historically oriented research projects on genocide, as well as research linked to contemporary international issues.
Its wide-ranging Holocaust-related research has laid a robust foundation for comparative studies of genocide, which currently encompass a broad spectrum and which have links to studies on human rights, conflict and democratisation.
The historically focused work within the field of genocide studies has highlighted the Nazi genocide of the Roma people, the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and genocidal crimes perpetrated by communist regimes.
The HL-Center’s contemporary international research focuses primarily on the prevention of genocide and other extensive violations of minorities’ human rights.
Researchers on genocide and human right violations
Projects
- The USSR and the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (concluded)
- Persecution of minorities in Nazi-dominated Europe
- Racial science in occupied Europe 1939–1945
- The Nazi genocide of the Roma
- Collaboration in connection with genocide: Ottoman Turkey in 1915, Nazi-occupied Baltic area in 1941–1944 and Rwanda in 1994
- Inclusive Citizenship and Human Rights
- Problems in comparative genocide studies
- The state and genocide
- Myanmar and the failure of atrocity prevention
- Mass atrocity resistance
- Minority Protection and Mass Atrocity Prevention
- Persecution of minorities in Nazi-dominated Europe
- Genocide prevention via the UN
- Institutions of Democracy Facing Nazi Occupation: Norway in a Comparative Perspective