Title: The Ten Stages of a Genocide - Montreal Holocaust Museum
Headings: The Ten Stages of Genocide
The Ten Stages of Genocide
The ten stages of genocide
1. Classification
2. Symbolisation
3. Discrimination
4. Dehumanisation
5. Organisation
6. Polarisation
7. Preparation
8. Persecution
9. Extermination
10. Denial
Preventing genocides
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Content: Signing petitions, sending letters, protests and awareness-building events exercise a concrete impact on governments and the media. Genocide prevention is an ongoing challenge. One of the greatest obstacles is the lack of political will of certain states to intervene in other countries. There are efforts to reverse the trend, but there is still much work to be done. Learn more about genocides
With your high school and college students, you can visit our “ United Against Genocide: Understand, Question, Prevent ” virtual exhibition which, with the help of a comparative approach, takes a closer look at four genocides of the 20th century: the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the genocide in Cambodia and the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda. The exhibition also provides the opportunity to learn more about four contemporary situations of escalating violence: Burundi, Iraq, South Sudan and Myanmar. The accompanying teaching guide provides educational activities for the classroom related to this subject.