Category Archives: Genocide Prevention

Bridging the Genocide Prevention and Conflict Prevention Agendas

05/11/12

Excerpts of Comments by United to End Genocide’s Daniel Sullivan at the Alliance for Peacebuilding Annual Conference Genocide prevention and conflict prevention efforts are closely related but not always in synch and indeed at times butt directly against each other. … Continue reading →

Tibet: A Case of Cultural Genocide?

04/27/12

This month, our blog has featured voices of survivors of past genocides and mass atrocities. In so many of these cases the world failed to call the atrocities genocide while they were taking place. In some cases, even generations later, … Continue reading →

Atrocities Prevention, Technology and Syria

04/25/12

One of the most exciting elements in President Obama’s speech on genocide prevention announcing a new Atrocities Prevention Board on Monday was an announcement that the Administration is going to set up a new set of “challenge grants” designed to … Continue reading →

President Launches Landmark Effort to Prevent Genocide

04/24/12

Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced a series of actions to ensure the United States is better able to prevent and respond to genocide and mass atrocities. The landmark announcement came after years of pressure from activists and organizations working to … Continue reading →

My Grandmother’s Story of the Holocaust

04/19/12

By Rachel Steinhardt In 1977, at the age of 50, my grandmother, Esther Nisenthal Krinitz, decided she wanted her family to see what her childhood home in Poland looked like. A survivor of the Holocaust, my grandmother had lost almost … Continue reading →

Remembering the Holocaust: Stories of Rescue

04/17/12

“As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.” ― Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking This week, communities around the country will gather for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual Days … Continue reading →

Living After Genocide in Rwanda

04/16/12

By Claude Gatebuke Eighteen years ago, my native country of Rwanda was befallen by violence that not only took the lives of my relatives, friends and neighbors but also threatened to take mine, my family’s and everything that existed around … Continue reading →

Taking Care of Business

04/12/12

This Genocide Prevention Month, as we reflect on what it will take to fulfill the promise made following the Holocaust saying “Never Again,” all of us at United to End Genocide recognize that changing U.S. government policies is necessary but … Continue reading →

Commemorating the Genocide Against Tutsi

04/10/12

As a Rwandan, I spent this past weekend reflecting on the 18th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. I joined Rwandans and friends of Rwanda at Georgetown University to remember and honor the victims of the genocide and to reflect upon … Continue reading →

April is Genocide Prevention Month

04/02/12

April is Genocide Prevention Month and is a time when our activists, survivors and advocates come together to commemorate previous genocides and call for action to stop ongoing atrocities and prevent future conflicts. Over the month, United to End Genocide … Continue reading →