Supporting Mental and Public Health Work in Atrocity Prevention
The Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights published an edited volume entitled Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention in August 2021. The Digital Dialogue Series explores the various chapters in the book through panels with the contributing authors. For a full series schedule, please reach out to cardozo.clihhr@yu.edu.
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This panel features the following authors:
Dr. James Densley is professor and department chair of criminal justice at Metropolitan State University, part of the Minnesota State system. He is also co-founder and co-president of The Violence Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center best known for its mass shooter database. Densley has received global media attention for his work on street gangs, criminal networks, violence, and policing. He is the author of seven books, including The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic, 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading scientific journals, and 70 book chapters, essays, and other non-refereed works in outlets such as CNN, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Densley earned his doctorate in sociology from the University of Oxford.
Dr. Margareta (Magda) Matache is a scholar from Romania, director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights’ Roma Program, and a Harvard instructor. Her research and teaching focus on the history and manifestations of anti-Roma racism, as well as the global history of race and racism. In 2017, with Jacqueline Bhabha and Andrzej Mirga, she co-edited Realizing Roma Rights, an investigation of anti-Roma racism in Europe. Also, along with Jacqueline Bhabha and Caroline Elkins, Dr. Matache is the co-editor of Time for Reparations, a 2021 volume exploring the issue of reparations across a broad range of historical and geographic contexts and academic disciplines. She completed her master’s in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and her doctoral degree in political sciences from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Bucharest.
Arlan Fuller is the chief operating officer of Conflict Dynamics International. He worked for 12 years at Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, serving as its executive director for seven years. Fuller has led research investigations focused on human rights and complex emergency response in areas such as Lebanon, Kosovo and Uganda. He’s previously worked in the United States Congressional offices of Congressman Sherrod Brown and Sen. Edward Kennedy. Fuller holds a master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and a JD from Boston College Law School.
This online event is approved for 1.5 transitional/non-transitional New York State CLE credits in the category “Areas of Professional Practice.” You must attend the “live” program in order to receive CLE credits. CLE credits cannot be awarded for watching a recorded version of this program.