Working to prevent genocide and mass atrocities through research, policy, education and advocacy.
Supporting scholarship and awareness for four decades.
The ISG is an independent non-profit organization working for nearly four decades to promote and disseminate scholarship, policy analysis and public awareness on the causes, consequences and prevention of genocide and mass atrocities.
Lemkin Book Award
The biennial award recognizes the best non-fiction book on the causes, prevention, response, or consequences of genocide and mass atrocities.
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“ If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.”
— Raphael Lemkin
