In association with their program on Wednesday, October 25, 2025, from 4:30pm-7:00pm, Norway and Finland: Standing with Ukraine in the Struggle for Democracy, the nonprofit World Without Genocide is sharing a highly informative exhibit on the history of genocide in the 20th and 21st centries.
The exhibit features 21 free-standing, 7’ banners with information about the Holocaust and the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur; highlights of the international tribunals and domestic prosecutions for these genocides; and information about regional human rights courts and commissions. Global ‘upstanders’ in human rights are recognized for their contributions to justice.
A new banner highlights justice mechanisms to address atrocities committed by Russian forces against Ukraine and civilians.
In 2005, Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy spent two weeks in Rwanda. She met a young Rwandan woman, Alice Musabende. Alice was orphaned at age 14 during the Rwandan genocide, losing her grandparents, parents, 12-year-old sister, and 9-year-old and 2-year-old brothers. Alice’s experience affected Dr. Kennedy deeply, particularly because Alice is the same age as her own daughter. Dr. Kennedy shared her experience of visiting post-genocide Rwanda with one of her classes. Upon learning that in 1994, nearly a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, one of Kennedy’s students asked, “What are we going to do about this?”
Using the model of the Genocide Intervention Network, founded by Mark Hanis, Kennedy began World Without Genocide with a dedicated and gifted group of students. Over the past eleven years, the organization has focused on education through many different opportunities: classes, workshops, films, exhibits, and conferences—they even advocated successfully for city and state legislation. World Without Genocide addresses conflicts in the past, those occurring today, and the challenging problems of child soldiers, human trafficking, gender-based violence, weapons trafficking, and resource scarcity or abundance as causes of conflict.
MISSION: World Without Genocide works to protect innocent people around the world, prevent genocide by combating racism and prejudice, advocate for the prosecution of perpetrators, and remember those whose lives and cultures have been destroyed by violence.