AIPR in the news: "Constructing a Collective Memory in Argentina": A report from AIPR's April conference in Buenos Aires.
June 2010
View AIPR's annual report for 2009.
Read the latest issue of the AIPR e-newsletter, Genocide Prevention News.
May 2010
AIPR in the news: "Sierra Leone Scores Another One for the Peace Team": Change.org's Human Rights Blog on peacebuilding in postwar Sierra Leone.
Interview: Lemkin Seminar alumna Memunatu Pratt talks to HELO magazine about transitional justice and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone.
April 2010
Read the latest issue of the AIPR e-newsletter, Genocide Prevention News.
Interview: Executive Director Tibi Galis talks to the Foreign Policy Association's War Crimes blog about AIPR's upcoming genocide-prevention conference in Argentina.
Congratulations, Jim! AIPR Affiliated Scholar James Waller has been named Cohen Chair for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College in New Hampshire. Read about it here.
March 2010
Wednesday, March 10th, at the Center for Jewish History, Lemkin Center instructor Sheri Rosenberg will be part of a panel discussion titled "Genocide and 'Responsibility to Protect': The Evolution of International Law." Click here for tickets and info.
February 2010
April 13 AIPR Affiliated Scholar James Waller will speak on "Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Mass Murder" as part of the 27th Annual Sonoma State University Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series in Rohnert Park, CA.
January 2010
January 29: We sent out the first issue of our new newsletter, Genocide Prevention News. Enter your e-mail address on any page of our Website to receive future issues.
Special Reminder: Monday, February 1, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Center for Jewish History, Diplomacy and Genocide: Challenges for the Future, a panel discussion inspired by the legacy of Raphael Lemkin. Cosponsored by AIPR.
Also on February 1: AIPR Affiliated Scholar James Waller delivers a talk at Greensboro College, North Carolina, on "Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing."
AIPR Affiliated Scholar James Waller will speak on "Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Mass Murder" at the Third Annual Powell & Heller Family Conference on Holocaust Education, March 18–20, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA.
"Ethics on the Air" — Listen to Executive Director Tibi Galis discuss AIPR's innovative approach to genocide prevention on WBAI 99.5 FM. Recorded Jan. 22, 2010.
Press release: Genocide Prevention: On the Air & On the Ground — AIPR moves on with its mission into 2010.
2009
December 2009
Get your ticket now! Diplomacy and Genocide: Challenges for the Future — February 1, 2010, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., the Center for Jewish History presents a panel discussion inspired by the legacy of Raphael Lemkin. Cosponsored by the AIPR.
"Never Again? What the Holocaust can't teach us about modern-day genocide": Andrew Stroehlein of the International Crisis Group writes about AIPR's latest Raphael Lemkin Seminar on Genocide Prevention at ForeignPolicy.com. (Also on the Web site of the International Crisis Group.)
November 2009
Read the latest article about AIPR, "Send Your Government Officials to Auschwitz (To Learn How Best to Prevent War Crimes)", on the War and Peace blog at Change.org.
Catch up on the latest Raphael Lemkin Seminar on Genocide Prevention, including lists of instructors and participants and a downloadable copy of the seminar program.
October 2009
AIPR Affiliated Scholar James Waller to speak October 15 at Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA.
September 2009
"Interview: Tibi Galis and Alex Zucker of the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation": Read the article at The Daily Tell.
"Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation strives to stop genocide": Article at The Daily Tell.
"Preventing Genocide": Online version of an article published in the September 2009 issue of Jewish Image Magazine.
August 2009
Press release: German gov't allocates funds for developing countries to take part in upcoming Lemkin Seminar.
Visit the new AIPR blog: Preventing Genocide.
July 2009
Letter to the editor in The East African.
June 2009
Press release: Congo-DRC fundraising campaign.
January 2009
Dr. James Waller named AIPR Affiliated Scholar.
2008
November 2008
1) November 2–8
First Raoul Wallenberg Seminar held, with 20 Ministry of Culture officials from 10 different countries
2) November 3
Holocaust Memorialization Legacy of Auschwitz - World Cultural Heritage Wallenberg Seminar - discussion - Collegium Novum Jagiellonian University.
Click to download poster:
October 2008
AIPR breakfast in NYC
Presenting AIPR to countries participating in the first Wallenberg Seminar and a group of potential participant countries.
AIPR breakfast in Washington, DC,
hosted by Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat
Presenting AIPR to embassy officials from countries participating in the first Wallenberg Seminar and a group of potential participant countries.