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Record W4412402823 · doi:10.3138/gsi-2025-0419

Toward a Truly Transdisciplinary Study of Genocide

2025· article· en· W4412402823 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Kerry Whigham

Bibliographic record

VenueGenocide Studies International · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGenocideSociologyAnthropologyEpistemologyGeographyPolitical sciencePhilosophyLaw

Abstract

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This article addresses the obstructions that genocide educators face in creating a curriculum that has a preventive impact on learners, before proposing an alternative perspective that would transform the way we approach genocide education, magnifying its capacity to contribute to atrocity prevention. It begins by critiquing the disciplinary emphasis that genocide education currently places on history, which reinforces a notion that genocides are phenomena of the past, rather than the present and future. Next, it addresses the assumption that education automatically and inherently contributes to non-recurrence, arguing that real prevention requires a much more intentional and rigorous approach to education. The article then argues for a turn from genocide education to genocide prevention education, which can and should involve a transdisciplinary approach that takes genocide education out of the silo of history education. For genocide education to contribute optimally to prevention, prevention thinking must be integrated both in the pedagogical approach to teaching about genocide and throughout the disciplinary spectrum in which it is taught. To illustrate this, the article offers two examples of new approaches to achieving this goal that have been developed by two atrocity prevention organizations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.045

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.002
Science and technology studies0.0100.054
Scholarly communication0.0120.015
Open science0.0010.011
Research integrity0.0050.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.089
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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