From Discrimination to Death: Genocidal Process and Prevention Through a Human Rights Lens

Dr Melanie O'Brien's research aims to construct a paradigm of the genocidal process through human rights violations to function as a map to prevent future genocides. It conducts a comparative assessment of the process of the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust, and Cambodian Genocide, examining the timeline of human rights violations that occurred in those genocides; and the use of the law to carry out these violations. The ultimate goal is to create a tool to assist in the prevention of genocide that can be applied to current and future situations of mass human rights violations that have not yet mutated into genocide.