Shamiran Mako
I am an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. I am also a member of the Graduate Faculty at the Political Science Department at Boston University. My research and teaching focus on the international relations of the Middle East with a substantive emphasis on foreign intervention, ethnic conflict, political violence in divided societies, and institutions and statebuilding. I am the author of After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa with Valentine Moghadam (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and co-editor of State and Society in Iraq: Citizenship under Occupation, Authoritarianism and Democratisation with Benjamin Isakhan and Fadi Dawood (I.B. Tauris, 2017).
In 2022, I was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship as a Canada Research Chair in Global Governance where I will be a scholar in residence at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the political science department at the University of Waterloo for Fall 2022. Previously, I have held research fellowships at the Watson Institute for International Affairs at Brown University, the International Affairs program at Northeastern University, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. In addition to English, I am proficient in Arabic, Assyrian/Aramaic, and have reading proficiency in French.
In 2022, I was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship as a Canada Research Chair in Global Governance where I will be a scholar in residence at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the political science department at the University of Waterloo for Fall 2022. Previously, I have held research fellowships at the Watson Institute for International Affairs at Brown University, the International Affairs program at Northeastern University, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. In addition to English, I am proficient in Arabic, Assyrian/Aramaic, and have reading proficiency in French.
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The achievements of the indigenous peoples' movement throughout the 1980s reignited the debate surrounding cultural genocide within the international arena. This paper is both a survey of cultural genocide of indigenous populations of North America, South America, and Australia, as well as the role of indigenous social movements within the international arena. It analyzes the development of cultural genocide within international law by Raphael Lemkin, its subsequent debate by the United Nations’ Ad Hoc Committee on Genocide, its omission from the Genocide Convention, and its reintroduction by indigenous peoples’ mobilization to the international arena. The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (Philippines), the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, and various findings of the ICTY relating to cultural genocide, the conference findings of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe relating to minorities, along with Lemkin's original reference to the term, will be used as frameworks for illuminating the extent and gravity of such crimes.
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The achievements of the indigenous peoples' movement throughout the 1980s reignited the debate surrounding cultural genocide within the international arena. This paper is both a survey of cultural genocide of indigenous populations of North America, South America, and Australia, as well as the role of indigenous social movements within the international arena. It analyzes the development of cultural genocide within international law by Raphael Lemkin, its subsequent debate by the United Nations’ Ad Hoc Committee on Genocide, its omission from the Genocide Convention, and its reintroduction by indigenous peoples’ mobilization to the international arena. The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (Philippines), the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, and various findings of the ICTY relating to cultural genocide, the conference findings of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe relating to minorities, along with Lemkin's original reference to the term, will be used as frameworks for illuminating the extent and gravity of such crimes.