Refugees, Climate Change and Conflict

Alex Alvarez, Ph.D.
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University

Warren Auditorium of Ives Hall on the SSU campus
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Professor Alex Alvarez, Ph.D., Northern Arizona University

Please join us on Tuesday, February 25th for the sixth lecture in the 2020 series on the Holocaust and Genocide at Sonoma State University from 4-5:50 p.m. in Warren Auditorium of Ives Hall on the SSU campus. Professor Alex Alvarez, Ph.D. will be discussing “Refugees, Climate Change and Conflict.”

Professor Alvarez holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Northland College and a master’s and doctoral degree from the University of New Hampshire.  He is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. From 2001 until 2003 he was the founding Director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values. In 2017-2018, he served as the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. His main areas of study are in the areas of collective and interpersonal violence, including homicide and genocide. His published works include: Governments, Citizens, and Genocide (2001), Murder American Style (2002), Violence: The Enduring Problem (2007), Genocidal Crimes (2009), and Native America and the Question of Genocide (2014). His latest book, Unsteady Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide was published in 2017.  Alvarez has also served as an editor for the journal Violence and Victims and was a founding co-editor of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention.