Faculty & Staff Publications | Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

Our faculty and staff are involved in several different research projects and publish their work in a variety of outlets. We are excited to share their work with you.

Policy Papers, Reports, and Briefs

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I-GMAP and AIPG. (2025). Safer Havens: Better Protection for Refugees in Kenya [Policy brief].

Whigham, K. and Nzitatira, H.N. (2025). Reconceptualizing Atrocity Prevention [Policy brief]. I-GMAP, AIPG, and IAGS.

AIPG. (2025). Strengthening the Atrocity Prevention Capacity of Memory Spaces Policy Paper [Policy brief].

UNESCO. (2025). Dialogue for Prevention. [Policy brief].

I-GMAP and AIPG. (2024). Safer Havens: Better Protection of Venezuelans in Colombia from Identity-Based Violence [Policy brief].

Whigham, K. (2023). Beyond Remembering: An Atrocity Prevention Toolkit for Memory Spaces. Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities.

Whigham, K. (2020). Truth Commissions and Their Contributions to Atrocity Prevention. Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities.

Academic Publications

Whigham, Kerry. (2025). Toward a Truly Transdisciplinary Study of Genocide. Genocide Studies International 16(1): 45-60.

Appe, Susan, Campbell, David, and Whigham, Kerry. (2025). Preventing Identity-Based Violence from the Ground Up. Stanford Social Innovation Review Spring 2025: 29-37.

Pensky, M. (2024). After impunity: the anti-impunity norm, the Colombian special jurisdiction for peace, and the future of international criminal law. Genocides Studies and Prevention 18(2), 46-63.

Whigham, Kerry. (2024). More than Memory: Can Memory Spaces Really Prevent? Genocide Studies and Prevention 18(1): 37-53.

Whigham, Kerry, Billing, Trey, and Nyseth Nzitatira, Hollie. (2024). Truth Commissions and the Prevention of Targeted Mass Killings. International Journal of Transitional Justice 18(2).

Pensky, M. (2024). Genocide and Jurisgenesis. In S. Eich et al. (Ed.), Another Universalism: Seyla Benhabib and the Future of Critical Theory. Columbia University Press.

Whigham, Kerry. (2023). From Holocaust Studies to Atrocity Prevention: Genocide and the Growth of Transdisciplinary Activist Scholarship. Social Research 90(4): 809-836.

Rubaii, N., Whigham, K., and Appe, S. (2020). The public administration imperative of applying an atrocity prevention lens to COVID-19 responses: Leveraging the global pandemic for positive structural change and greater social equity. Administrative Theory & Praxis, online first DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2020.1829260

Appe, S., Rubaii, N. and Whigham, K. (2020). Expanding the reach of representativeness, discretion and collaboration: The unrealized potential of public administration research in atrocity prevention. Public Administration Review. Advance online publication: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ puar.13296

Rubaii, N. and Appe, S. (2020). Confronting nervousness at the intersection of indigenous and gender Issues: A case study of Mexico’s efforts, accomplishments, and remaining work. In S. Gooden (Ed.), Global Equity in Administration: Nervous Areas of Governments.

Whigham, Kerry. 2020. Memory encroachments and re-plotting the past: Cartographies of violence and memory in post-atrocity Argentina, Germany, and the United States. In E. Barkan, C. Goschler & J. Waller (Eds.), Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities. Routledge.

Pensky, M. (2019). Of straw men and humanitarians: On Rajan Menon’s the conceit of humanitarian intervention. Journal of Genocide Research, 21(1), 102-107.

Pensky, M. (2019). Impunity: A philosophical analysis. In M. Bergsmo (Ed.), Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law, (Vol. 2, pp. 241-267). CILRAP Publishing.

Rubaii, N., Appe, S., and Lippez-De Castro, S. (2019). Administering prevention or administering atrocities? Public affairs education in dark times. Teaching Public Administration, 37(2), 175-189.

Rubaii, N., Lippez-De Castro, S., and Appe, S. (2019). Pueblos indígenas como víctimas de los genocidios pasados y actuales: un tema esencial para el currículo de administración pública. América Latina Revista OPERA (Observatorio de Políticas, Ejecución y Resultados de la Administración Pública, 25, 29-54.

Whigham, K. (2019). Scenarios of intractability: Reframing intractable conflict and its transformation. Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 13(3), 44-63.

Whigham, K. (2019). Reading the traces: Embodied engagement with the past at three former nazi concentration camps. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 26(2), 221-240.

Publications in Media Outlets

Whigham, K. (2025, September). Ukraine is starting to think about memorials- a tricky task during an ongoing war. The Conversation.

Pensky, M. (2023, October). What is genocide, and who is committing it now in the Middle East? The Hill.

Whigham, K. (2022, December). Genocides persist, nearly 70 years after the Holocaust- but there are recognized ways to help prevent them. The Conversation.

Whigham, K. (2021, July). Why reparations are always about more than money. The Conversation.

Rubaii, N. and Araujo Jr., J.J. (2020, July). Judge orders Brazil to protect Indigenous people from ravages of COVID-19. The Conversation.

Rubaii, N. and Araujo Jr., J.J. (2020, July). Brazil’s Bolsonaro has COVID-19 – and so do thousands of Indigenous people who live days from the nearest hospital. The Conversation.

Pensky, M. (2019, July). Why is the UN's Response to Rohingya Persecution So Powerless? The Globe Post.

Pensky, M. and Rubaii, N. (2017, August). Warning signs of mass violence- in the US? The Conversation.

Pensky, M. and Rubaii, N. (2017, July). Are State Department cuts a major setback for genocide prevention? The Conversation.