Thomas G. Weiss is a Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center; a Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; and Global Eminence Scholar, at Kyung Hee University, Korea. He has written extensively about multilateral approaches to international peace and security, humanitarian action, and sustainable development. Most recently, he is the editor (with James Cuno) of Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities, a 2022 open-access book of the J. Paul Getty Trust.
The nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine’s words inspired Raphael Lemkin, the drafter of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: “Burning books is not the same as burning bodies…but when one intervenes … against mass destruction of churches and books one arrives just in time to prevent the burning…
