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4 OUR LIFE • November 2022 Understanding the Ukrainian Holo - domor — an artificially induced famine under Joseph Stalin that killed millions of people in Ukraine in less than two years — has always been incredibly important. Doing so honors the victims of this hor - rific violence, provides critical in - sight into how these events shaped future Ukrainian generations, and confronts the dark legacy of the Soviet Union. Yet now, in the light of Vladimir Putin’s escalation of an eight-year armed conflict against Ukrainians, increasing the world’s knowledge of these terrible crimes grows even more urgent. Since February 2022, evidence of systematic war crimes by russians A Social Science Approach to Understanding Past and Present Violence in Ukraine Kristina Hook is Assistant Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University’s School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding, and Development and is a former U.S. Fulbright scholar to Ukraine. A specialist in genocide and mass atrocity pre - vention, she is writing a book that discusses Joseph Stalin’s histor - ical genocide against Ukraine, the Holodomor, and how modern Ukrainians interpreted this history to predict both russia's modern genocidal war and Ukraine’s stunning resistance. Prior to her time in academia, Professor Hook served as a poli - cy advisor at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations and held leadership roles at sev - eral international development and conflict resolution NGOs (non-governmental organizations). She is currently a non-resi - dent fellow at the Marine Corps University’s Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare. Kristina Hook , PhD , Assistant Professor of Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University Тhe Holodomor as Genocide against Ukrainians is mounting, and the specter of genocide has again emerged in Europe. Now, we must also confront and ana - lyze the patterns of violence found in the Ukrainian Holodomor from fresh perspectives. We must ques - tion whether these events are an - other link in the chain of violence waged by Moscow, another sign that the Kremlin is threatened by a free, prosperous, and independ - ent Ukraine. As a comparative genocide schol - ar and an anthropologist who be - gan working in Ukraine in 2015, I have published my affirmative assessment in Foreign Affairs that the russian federation is currently attempting to commit genocide against the Ukrainian national group — a protected category un - der the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. More than any other subject, speaking with Ukrainians on the Holodo - mor — both its patterns of vio - lence and its legacy — since 2015 convinced me of a very real scenar - io of russian escalation of its overt and hybrid warfare in Ukraine. However, understanding the 1930s events through the words of survivors’ descendants today also convinced me that the brave Ukrainian response that we are witnessing today was just as likely.
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