RELIGST 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Canadian Indian Residential School System, We Were Children, Purgatory

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2YY3
• Professor: Janet Ross

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By gregory h. stanton (originally written in 1996 at the department of state; presented at the yale university centre for international and area studies in. Genocide is a process that develops in eight stages that are predictable but not inexorable. At each stage, preventive measures can stop it. The later stages must be preceded by tha earlier stages, though earlier stages continue to operate throughout the process. Classification - starts with defining who is "us" and "them" Organization - generally this is culturally sanctioned/state sanctioned/military sanctioned. More informal - can be just a mob or a group This stage - plans for more specific killing or not helping. What happens when there are certain issues that drive groups. Whoever they are, they are identified and pointed out due to. Term extermination is used by those who are doing the killing. Truth and reconciliation commission chairman says work remains article- from oct.