The firing of Dr. Edita Gzoyan from her position as director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) for donating ...

The pursuit of academic work and historical truth must remain independent of shifting political circumstances or political expediency, especially regarding matters that affect humanity.  The ...

Ever since Raphael Lemkin heard Winston Churchill’s August 1941 broadcast on the BBC, in which the prime minister declared, “The whole of Europe has been wrecked ...

When he was 11, Gustave Mukurarinda Mukunde survived the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, one of the most tragic and horrific events in human history. ALSO READ: Fifteen books that help you ...

A photo display of some of the victims at the Kigali Memorial Centre for 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A photo display of some of the victims at the Kigali Memorial Centre for 1994 genocide in Rwanda.In ...

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security welcomes the scholars, NGOs, media outlets, and large human rights organizations who have spoken out in the past week, some of which ...

A new book titled The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath (1908--1923), edited by Taner Akçam, Theodosios Kyriakidis, and Kyriakos Chatzikyriakidis, brings ...

The class of Rwandan teenagers stare back at him until, upon further prompting, one mumbles: "the massive killing of people." Slowly Arinetwe draws out more details, scrawling on the board the ...

Genocide is the murder of a significant part of a specific ethnic or religious group, solely because they are members of that demographic. It is one of humanity’s gravest crimes. Israel stands widely ...

Ohio State will host Kwibuka, an event commemorating the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Saturday. This Kwibuka is one of 34 events across the United States ...

What if a genocide like the ones in Rwanda or in Srebrenica were to happen today? Would the global response be any different? David J. Simon is a senior lecturer at the Yale University Jackson School ...

The class of Rwandan teenagers stare back at him until, upon further prompting, one mumbles: "the massive killing of people." Teaching young people in Rwanda about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, ...