Prevent and Stop Genocide
Raising Both Money and Political Will to STOP GENOCIDE
We believe that the global community is unconditionally responsible to prevent and stop genocide. The mass killing of human beings based on national, ethnic, racial, or religious identity is profoundly intolerable; we cannot remain silent in the face of genocide. We support efforts to intervene in genocidal conflicts, such as the Darfur genocide in Sudan an ...learn more
GROUP DETAILS
Created: Jan 19, 2008
Updated: Nov 21, 2009
Membership: Open
Semi-Private
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Areas of Focus
About
We believe that the global community is unconditionally responsible to prevent and stop genocide. The mass killing of human beings based on national, ethnic, racial, or religious identity is profoundly intolerable; we cannot remain silent in the face of genocide.
We consider it a moral duty to analyze and commemorate past genocides, such as those that affected the Armenian, Jewish, Cambodian, Guatemalan, Bosnian and Rwandan peoples, among others. Education about the causes of genocide will help the world determine the best methods for making sure "never again" doesn't happen again.
We believe in the vital need to recognize environmental factors exacerbating environmental conflict; although genocidal political decisions alone cause these types of mass atrocities, environmental aspects such as lack of resources are often used as justification for prolonging the conflict.
Our goal is to empower individuals and communities with the tools to help stop and prevent genocide.
Resources and Organizations
- Save Darfur: An alliance of over 170 faith-based, advocacy and humanitarian organizations. The coalition's member organizations represent 130 million people of all ages, races, religions and political affiliations united together to help the people of Darfur.
- The Genocide Intervention Network envisions a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. Our mission is to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. While our primary focus is on the Darfur genocide, our larger goal is to help build a permanent anti-genocide constituency that transforms “Never Again” from a promise we make into a commitment we keep.
- STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition is an umbrella organization of over 600 high school and college chapters dedicated to putting an end to genocide, specifically the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
- As the coordinating entity for the Sudan divestment movement, the Sudan Divestment Task Force
is actively involved in dozens of successful and developing targeted
Sudan divestment campaigns around the world at the university, city,
state and national levels.
- 1-800-GENOCIDE: Without the political will, policymakers will never take the actions needed to stop genocide. Without being put on hold or having to look up the number, callers have the option of being connected directly with their members of Congress, governor or the president. Before being connected to the relevant office, callers hear an up-to-date briefing about the specific actions elected officials must take to stop genocide.
- The congressional scorecard on Darfur grades each member of Congress on his or her record on ending the Darfur genocide.
- Africa Action: The Campaign to Stop Genocide in Darfur is calling on President Bush to assert U.S. leadership in support of a multinational intervention to stop the ongoing violence.
- Armenian National Committee of America: Lobbies for recognition of the Armenian genocide worldwide, as well as supporting initiatives to stop genocide today, such as the atrocities occurring in Darfur.
- Friends Committee on National Legislation: The largest peace lobby in Washington, DC. Founded in 1943 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), FCNL staff and volunteers work with a nationwide network of tens of thousands of people from many different races, religions, and cultures to advocate social and economic justice, peace, and good government.
- Amnesty International: Amnesty International is a leading voice on human rights issues around the world.
- International Crisis Group: The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization, with some 130 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. ICG's approach is grounded in field research, including in Darfur.
- Human Rights Watch: Working to document and end human rights abuses in Darfur.
- Aegis Trust: The Aegis Trust (UK) lobbies governments to take effective action to prevent further attacks and seek practical solutions to rebuild lives.
- Physicians for Human Rights: PHR's Darfur Survival Campaign mobilizes health professionals, students, and members of the public to press for urgently needed security in Darfur, Sudan. In addition, the campaign insists on compensation and restitution for survivors.
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Committee on Conscience works to ensure that no such an inhuman assault as the Holocaust or anything like it ever recurs. The committee issues "genocide alerts" for situations around the world with the potential for becoming mass atrocities.
- Sudan Organisation Against Torture: Founded in 1993, SOAT's primary objective is preventing torture and challenging impunity. SOAT works to rehabilitate Sudanese survivors of torture; provides legal assistance to survivors and individuals threatened with inhumane and degrading punishments; and researches, documents and campaigns against human rights abuses in Sudan on a national and international level.