Public Presentations

At the Yazidi Genocide Survivors' Conference 2024, the Lemkin Institute's Director of Research emphasized the Institute's people-centered approach and contributions to recognizing ISIS crimes as genocide. Deniw Owen Williams critiqued existing legal instruments for focusing on punishment rather than prevention. He introduced a six-stage periodization model by sociologist Daniel Feierstein, highlighting the need for specific actions to prevent genocides.

Two of the representatives of the Lemkin Institute traveled to Geneva to participate in the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues. We called attention to the violation of these minority rights in Uzbekistan with particular reference to the Karakalpak people who are suffering from a structural genocide.

Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention Executive Director, Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, prepared a recorded video for the Conference on the Violation of Human Rights: From Baku to Yerevan, which took place on December 10 in Yerevan, Armenia.

Dr. von Joeden-Forgey outlined the genocidal nature of Azerbaijan's September 19 invasion of the Republic of Artsakh, which resulted in the forcible displacement of almost the entire Armenian population, and also suggested important steps that can be taken going forward to protect the distinct, 4000-year-old Artsakh identity as well as the lives of Armenians living in the Republic of Armenia.

On November 30, 2023 Lemkin Institute Executive Director Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey spoke at the European Union of Armenia conference on Contemporary Principles of Human Rights Protection in a Globalizing World. In her speech, "Tools for Genocide Prevention in the 21st Century," she discussed the reasons for the failure of prevention and shared what is hopeful about a grassroots framework going forward.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has been tracking the genocidal aspects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since before February 24, 2022. Here Lemkin Institute Executive Director, Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, lays out our case for genocide, with special reference to the forced removal of children.

Two of the representatives of the Lemkin Institute traveled to Geneva to participate in the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues. We called attention to the violation of these minority rights in Uzbekistan with particular reference to the Karakalpak people who are suffering from a structural genocide.