We welcome our readers.
And we thank the many who have written to express their appreciation for the meaningfulness of the first two issues of GPN, which have earned praise both as interesting reading and as filling an important function providing source materials for those concerned with genocide and its prevention.
We also note with some excitement that participation in creating articles and stories for GPN and in submitting professional information is growing and includes scholars and professionals from many different parts of the world.
Readers of past issues will recall our announcing that we were publishing our "webmag" (web magazine) in a blog format (which some people point out is also a form of website) until we complete the construction of our fuller website. We think we are on the verge, and that Issue 4 Fall 2010 will already appear in the next web format.
Among our various anticipations – we too will be finding out what it's all about – are that what we intend as a "page" will fit on to a full screen which will not require scrolling on many computers, and when printed out will produce a nicely readable font for many eyes including those of older readers; also that it will be easier to separate out a GPN article or story for printing such as for use in academic settings as readings for researchers and students. We also expect that the website will provide a strong Search capacity for tracking content topics both in a given issue and in all past issues of GPN. At this time our staff are already entering the first three blog issues also into the new web format so that the Search functions will cover all materials from Issue 1 on.
In this issue we introduce for the first time three GPN Editorial Blogs and these deserve some explanation as to our 'Terms of Editorial Engagement.' In genocide studies you can forget about unanimity of opinions about just about anything—try for example defining any event as genocide, genocidal massacre, ethnic cleansing, crime against humanity, or human rights abuse, and stand back for the ricochets of disagreements. Basically, our policy is that everything we publish has the overall agreement of myself, Marc and Elihu to publish it but not at all necessarily our agreement about every statement made. In each case, the Editorial Blogs are signed by the person(s) who wrote them and they are the ones to whom you can protest with your disagreements. Titles of articles are written by the identified authors. The pre-headers or brief introductory blurbs in the Table of Contents are my responsibility as the Editor-in-Chief and are usually written by me without necessarily having secured the review of all editors.
Again our reminder to ourselves and to you our readers: Producing a webmag gets to be fun in its own right and we are having that, but the only real purpose of GPN is to create a tool that makes a real contribution to the knowledge and understanding of genocide and especially to its prevention.
Best wishes from all of us on the GPN Staff,
Israel
Israel W. Charny
And we thank the many who have written to express their appreciation for the meaningfulness of the first two issues of GPN, which have earned praise both as interesting reading and as filling an important function providing source materials for those concerned with genocide and its prevention.
We also note with some excitement that participation in creating articles and stories for GPN and in submitting professional information is growing and includes scholars and professionals from many different parts of the world.
Readers of past issues will recall our announcing that we were publishing our "webmag" (web magazine) in a blog format (which some people point out is also a form of website) until we complete the construction of our fuller website. We think we are on the verge, and that Issue 4 Fall 2010 will already appear in the next web format.
Among our various anticipations – we too will be finding out what it's all about – are that what we intend as a "page" will fit on to a full screen which will not require scrolling on many computers, and when printed out will produce a nicely readable font for many eyes including those of older readers; also that it will be easier to separate out a GPN article or story for printing such as for use in academic settings as readings for researchers and students. We also expect that the website will provide a strong Search capacity for tracking content topics both in a given issue and in all past issues of GPN. At this time our staff are already entering the first three blog issues also into the new web format so that the Search functions will cover all materials from Issue 1 on.
In this issue we introduce for the first time three GPN Editorial Blogs and these deserve some explanation as to our 'Terms of Editorial Engagement.' In genocide studies you can forget about unanimity of opinions about just about anything—try for example defining any event as genocide, genocidal massacre, ethnic cleansing, crime against humanity, or human rights abuse, and stand back for the ricochets of disagreements. Basically, our policy is that everything we publish has the overall agreement of myself, Marc and Elihu to publish it but not at all necessarily our agreement about every statement made. In each case, the Editorial Blogs are signed by the person(s) who wrote them and they are the ones to whom you can protest with your disagreements. Titles of articles are written by the identified authors. The pre-headers or brief introductory blurbs in the Table of Contents are my responsibility as the Editor-in-Chief and are usually written by me without necessarily having secured the review of all editors.
Again our reminder to ourselves and to you our readers: Producing a webmag gets to be fun in its own right and we are having that, but the only real purpose of GPN is to create a tool that makes a real contribution to the knowledge and understanding of genocide and especially to its prevention.
Best wishes from all of us on the GPN Staff,
Israel
Israel W. Charny
