Film Screening: The Broken Promise

Film Screening: The Broken Promise

From the Armenian Genocide to Bosnia to Rwanda to China to Ukraine, the message is painfully clear: genocide is not a once-in-a-generation event humanity can witness, wring its collective hands over, and consign to the history books. It is a tool authoritarians wield all too easily — and consumerism is complicit in its use.

With insights from genocide survivors and their children, members of Congress, legal scholars, and human rights activists, The Broken Promise independent, feature-length documentary explores re-emergent patterns of genocide, and the political and institutional failures that enable perpetrators of crimes against humanity. The film shines a light on the warning signs of genocide, and how ordinary citizens can stand against these atrocities — and finally ensure that the promise of “never again,” a refrain after the horrors of the Holocaust, is fulfilled.

Following the screening there will be a brief question and answer session with experts in the field of genocide and mass violence.

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Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota with the Human Rights Program, the Human Rights Center, the Center for Jewish Studies, the History Department, the Sociology Department, and Global Minnesota.

Host or Publisher The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies