Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Mass Atrocity

Time: March 20, 2025, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Location: 114 Bird Library

James Waller (University of Connecticut)

In this public lecture hosted by Atrocity Studies, Waller engages in a multidisciplinary analysis of mass violence, highlighting ethics, historical memory, and civic responsibility. He challenges models of evil and, based on extensive interviews with perpetrators of genocides and other mass atrocities, examines the social, psychological, political and historical forces that normalize discrimination and violence that drive people to commit mass atrocities.

Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART) will be provided.

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About the presenter:
James Waller is the inaugural Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice and director of the Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs for the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut.