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Responding to Genocide Today

How Will You Meet the Challenge of Genocide?

How Will You Meet the Challenge of Genocide?

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Watch eyewitness testimony from Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. Explore a timeline on the concept and law of genocide. Find out who is at risk today. View hundreds of photos from Sudan, the Congo, Chechnya, and elsewhere. Read stories about people like you making a difference. Write your own pledge to take action. Visit the new cutting-edge installation From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of GenocideMore »

World Is Witness

World Is Witness

Our staff and guest contributors bring you updates from the field, eyewitness testimony, photographs, interactive maps, and more. Witness for yourself here on our web site and inside Google Earth. More »

Preventing Genocide: A Conversation with Ambassador Susan Rice

Preventing Genocide: A Conversation with Ambassador Susan Rice

On December 10, the Museum hosted a special program with U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN Susan Rice. Michael Abramowitz, Director of the Museum’s Committee on Conscience, interviewed Ambassador Rice, discussing her work at the UN and her experiences working on issues of genocide and mass atrocities. More »

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Director of National Intelligence Emphasizes Risk in Southern Sudan and Concern for Bosnia

Addressing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday, Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, emphasized -- above all other parallel risks -- the potential for mass killing or genocide in South Sudan. More »


Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast

Looking back on the age of genocide

January 28, 2010

Writer Mark Danner reflects on what we can learn from the genocides of the late 1990s. More »


Genocide Prevention Task Force

Co-chaired by Madeleine Albright and William Cohen, the Genocide Prevention Task Force released its final report on December 8, 2008. More »