A Global Membership,
A Common Goal
The International Association of Genocide Scholars is a global, interdisciplinary, non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teaching about the nature, causes, and consequences of genocide, and advance policy studies on genocide prevention.
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.”
“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”
“All day I was digging Armenian bones out of the Syrian desert with a TV crew that kept ducking the Mukhabarat who trailed us in jeeps and at night joined us”
“A genocide begins with the killing of one man – not for what he has done, but because of who he is.”
“Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.”
“”…there’s a sickness
worse than the risk of death and that’s
forgetting what we should never forget.””
Our Mission
A central aim of the Association is to draw academics, activists, artists, genocide survivors, journalists, jurists, public policy makers, and other colleagues into the interdisciplinary study of genocide, with the goal of prevention.
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Call for #IAGS2025 Site Proposals
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