Growing into Global Citizens Through a Seminar Focused on Transitional Justice in Some of the World's Worst Trouble Spots

In this one-hour interdisciplinary seminar focused on transitional justice, students learn about key locations around the world where multiculturalism and class/ethnic conflict have led tyrannical leaders to commit acts of horror and even genocide against their own people. From the killing fields of Cambodia to the terrorist tactics of the Shining Path leaders and soldiers in Peru to the forced recruitment of boy soldiers into armed conflict and atrocities against villagers in Sierra Leone, students learn about subsequent Truth Commissions and their efforts to right the grievous wrongs that have been perpetrated. In this process, students also learn how to be compassionate citizens of the world.