Student Outreach
The following programs are all available to students at the collegiate level. These programs are either sponsored by or affiliated with our Institute and provide students with a variety of first-class opportunities to learn more about the vast dimensions of genocide and human rights violations as they are present in the world today.
The Cyprus Problem (Study Abroad Program)
An intensive three-week program that looks at the seemingly intractable dimensions and human rights violations and genocidal nature of the conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. The program is taught in Cyprus and students meet with government officials, EU representatives, UN advisors, Greek and Turkish citizens, US Embassy personnel, and many other individual actors in the history of this conflict. Students will also tour many of the sites of the conflict as well as numerous other historical sights within this beautiful but troubled island. Visit NIU's Study Abroad page for more information.
GHRI Washington, D.C. Program
A one week program, affiliated with the GHRI own Summer Institute for Teachers, this program allows students who have previously taken a class on genocide or human rights at NIU or any other accredited, two-year or four-year institution to visit with members of the US government, foreign governments, NGOs and acaedmic institutions (including museums and archives) in Washington, D.C. to further their understanding of prevention, aid, and justice in both the academic and activist realms.
Zoryan Institute Genocide and Human Rights University Program
This comparative and interdisciplinary summer program approaches the study of genocide through analysis of such cases of genocide as the Jewish Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, and the Rwandan Genocide, among others, using the Armenian Genocide, the archetypal genocide of the 20th century, as the point of reference. The program also seeks to help develop an academic level educational support system for those who wish to work toward the prevention of genocide. The program strives to show, through the study and sharing of the genocidal traumas of many peoples, that genocide is a universal human experience and that, as such, it must be the concern of all individuals and institutions. For more information, visit the program's website.
STAND
The GHRI works in collaboration with NIU's chapter of STAND, a student-led anti-genocide coalition. Formed in the summer of 2008, our STAND chapter has already become well known throughout the international organization for its active engagement, its programming, and its leadership. Christina MacKenzie, on of the group's founders, has been named to a position within the national organization for advocacy and education, serving as the Great Lakes Regional Coordinator for all chapters in seven states. To learn more, see the NIU STAND Facebook page and watch for flyers across campus for meetings and activities.