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Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention
Part of Salzburg Global's Peace & Justice Pillar
Our Purpose
The Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention program series promotes peace, reconciliation, and pluralist societies.
Launched in 2010, it advances structured dialogue, research, knowledge-sharing and cross-border projects, engaging educators, practitioners and museum curators from over 50 countries, many with recent experience of mass violence or rising extremism.
Why It Matters
Between 2010 and 2017, Salzburg Global implemented the Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention program series in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Through a series of global and regional gatherings, the program engaged participants from more than 40 countries on six continents, the majority of which are non-Western countries, and many of which have a recent experience of mass atrocities.
The program established a network of individuals and NGOs across these countries and sought to deepen and extend their collaborative work, allowing practitioners to identify cross-regional strategies to empower institutions and individuals with tools for ethical education and peaceful conflict resolution.
Our Approach
Many interventions require considerable time to affect change, making rigorous measurement of their success over the long term resource-intensive, with sustained political will around an often-unpopular topic. What works? How do we know? And will it work in different geographic, cultural, and political contexts?
Salzburg Global’s Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention program worked across cultures and contexts, including where perceptions and definitions of “extremism” differ widely. The emphasis on grassroots activity within existing institutional budgets anchored projects in their local communities, improving the chances of longer-term sustainability.
Activities depended on the partners and were demand-driven. While the program provided no financial support to activity implementation, it did facilitate networks and exchange of experiences across borders to help in-country partners achieve their own institutional mandates, and to help external partners (government, academic, and other interested parties) have access to practical feedback from on the ground within affected countries and communities.
Support Our Work
As a nonprofit organization, we rely on your generosity and support to gather open-minded leaders for breakthrough conversations.
Donations, no matter the size, help us create space for dialogue that overcomes barriers and opens up a world of better possibilities.
