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Editor's Welcome

Thank you for your warm responses (see below) to the First Pilot Issue of GPN!

We are, of course, trying to learn from our mistakes and make corrections and improvements. Your detailed critiques are very welcome.

Sadly, there is no dearth of material from our contemporary world about genocidal massacres and threats of new eruptions of mass murder, let alone new material from the study of past genocides.

This second Issue is published in April, a month that is marked by Holocaust Day in Israel, and by the (95th) Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The issue presents an important essay review of the evidence of Auschwitz by architectural expert, Robert Jan Van Pelt, who appeared as an expert witness at the infamous David Irving-Deborah Lipstadt trial in London. It also presents a nomination for the ‘ten most absurd statements on the Holocaust.' We also present a story of a heated exchange on Russian TV (English language edition) between arch Holocaust degrader-denier, Norman Finkelstein, and GPN Editor-in-Chief, Israel Charny, accompanied by a video of the program.

The issue also reports a good deal on recognition of the Armenian Genocide (and also Assyrian and Greek victims): the status of the Protocols between Armenia and Turkey; denials of the Armenian Genocide—including by Israel; an Open Letter to the Presidents of Turkey and Israel; and an overview of a remarkable conference on Armenia and Turkey that took place in Istanbul, including the text of a courageous affirmation of the Armenian Genocide presented by Yair Auron.

The issue also presents stories and articles about Iran and its serious threats of future nuclear destruction; on Darfur; Cambodia; a new law against Holocaust denial in Hungary; Liberia; and the apology of Serbia after also continuing denial of the genocidal massacre at Srebrenica;

Further, this second issue of GPN contains stories and articles about incitement to genocide; prediction and prevention; education about genocide in the USA; digital terrorism and hate; hunger as a form of genocide with millions dying every year; and about a fatwa issued by a distinguished Muslim scholar against violence, for human life is holy!

We also introduce in this issue two new sections entitled THREAT and NEWSPEAK with brief reports on threats to human life in our world today, and on the gobbledygook of ‘1984-type’ disinformation and suppression of truth.

Finally, we continue our beginning assembly of Holocaust and Genocide Information Resources, including a feature story by Deborah Dwork in the section on Programs and Courses on the first PhD Program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, and a feature article in the Bibliography section on the book Ghosts of Halabja by Michael Kelly.

We are a website-magazine. Our immediate goal is ‘a good read.’ Our long range goal is to contribute meaningfully to the development of genocide studies and taking real steps towards prevention.

Best wishes,

Israel
Israel W. Charny, Ph.D., Executive Director of GPN and Editor-in-Chief

Elihu
Elihu D. Richter, M.D., M.P.H., Editor and Director of GPN WORLD GENOCIDE SITUATION ROOM

Marc
Marc I Sherman, M.L.S., Editor and Director of GPN HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE REVIEW

David
David Lisbona, MBA, GPN Director of Development

P.S.
Remember, we welcome regular submissions of information for our various information databases –including the calendar, announcement of conferences and seminars, information about projects and calls for collaboration, news of completed work, organizations devoted to genocide study and prevention, university and college and other programs and courses, and the bibliography of publications about genocide. Slowly but surely, we present new information and alsoin some cases cumulative lists of past and new information combined.

We also welcome your becoming an Affiliate of GPN. Please click here to see the sign-up form.

Registered Affiliates of GPN will enjoy:

● Active identification with the purposes of GPN Genocide Prevention Now and official membership in its network
● Preliminary e-mail announcements of forthcoming new issues of GPN and their contents
● Priority review of submitted manuscripts for possible publication in GPN
● Authorization to participate in interactive Talkback features of GPN as they are introduced.

Responses to the First Issue of GPN

Responses to the pilot issue of GPN have been overwhelmingly positive.

"Congratulations on the first issue which I read today. It contains excellent articles by first rate scholars on pertinent issues. It is a splendid contribution to genocide studies." - Helen Fein, Director of the Institute of the Study of Genocide, New York; Co-Founder and First President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars

"I do not have the words to tell you how glad I am to see the foundation of Genocide Prevention Now. This is especially so since I see it as an important way of conveying the solution to much government murder which is democratic freedom, as my website (http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/) and books show empirically and theoretically." - Rudy Rummel, Professor Emeritus Political Science, University Hawaii

"Have had the opportunity to go through the first issue of this phenomenal web magazine. Congratulations to all of you! It is most impressive; and I particularly am most appreciative of document opportunity in both HTML & PDF" - Steven Leonard Jacobs, Associate Professor, University of Alabama, Department of Religious Studies

"Great what you have done! Excellent!"
Prof, Dr. Jutta Lindert, MPH, Department of Public Health, Protestant University of Applied Sciences - Ludwigsburg,Germany

THREAT Stories in this Issue

NEWSPEAK Stories in this Issue