The Rawandan Genocide, the Holocaust, and the ongoing plight of the Rohingya people, are just a few examples of the human capacity to persecute others for being different than ourselves. On the Next Line One, founding director of The Human Nature Project, Dr. David Livingstone Smith, will join host Prentiss Pemberton for a discussion about dehumanization and how we can each do our part to resist it.
HOST: Prentiss Pemberton, LCSW
GUESTS:
- David Livingstone Smith, author, “On Inhumanity”
LINKS:
- Genocide Watch: The ten stages of genocide
- Psychology Today: Dehumanization, Genocide, and the Psychology of Indifference
- United Nations: No single country is immune from risk of genocide
- VIDEO: The neuroscience of dehumanization
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LIVE BROADCAST: Wednesday, June 3, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. AKDT
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Prentiss Pemberton is a host of Line One: Your Health Connection at Alaska Public Media. Reach him at lineone@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Prentiss here.
