The Global Prevention of Genocide: Learning from the Holocaust
Overview:
The Salzburg Global Seminar’s Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention Initiative is an ongoing project that has been developed in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Austrian Foreign Ministry to investigate the links between Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention. Within the initiative, there are two programmatic strands: one focused on Holocaust Education, the other focused on Genocide Prevention.
Holocaust Education Activities
The Holocaust Education programs have been running since 2010. These have included a series of working group meetings as well as two larger international conferences that have built on the work of the working groups. In 2012, our focus will be to examine the role of the Holocaust as a reference point for educators around the world who teach about human rights and other genocides. In particular, we are very interested in highlighting the work that is currently being undertaken by educators in countries that are not members of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF).
For more information about our current and past work in the area of Holocaust education, please follow the links below:
Within this initiative, Genocide Prevention has always been a central point of interest and has been embedded as a conceptual theme and goal in much of our work.
However, beginning in 2012, we will be launching a multi-year program in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum focused exclusively on Genocide Prevention.
In September, 2012, The USHMM will be hosting the first planning meeting for this project.
Key experts will be involved in this planning meeting to determine the specific case studies that this project will examine and to shape its development.
