Mission Statement

The mission of the Center for Genocide, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies is:

• to provide quality programming for the UMD campus
• to make the issues that the Center raises a part of campus dialog. To that end,

• we will invite speakers to discuss and debate topics regarding genocide, Holocaust, and human rights
• we will collaborate with groups on campus in our programming
• we will conduct outreach to schools in order to assist the teachers of our region in promoting discussion and instruction on issues relevant to the Center
• we will encourage student involvement in the work of the Center and in the pursuit of further study on issues of genocide, the Holocaust, and human rights
• we will introduce to the UMD community timely and frequent discussion of issues, local or global, relevant to the work of the Center.