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.
“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.”
“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.”
“A genocide begins with the killing of one man – not for what he has done, but because of who he is.”
“”…there’s a sickness
worse than the risk of death and that’s
forgetting what we should never forget.””
“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”
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.
Preliminary Announcement
Visit our conference
The 16th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars is taking place 10 – 14 July 2023, Barcelona, Spain. The conference is hosted by The University of Barcelona who is one of the leading public institutions of higher education in Spain.
Announcements
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