SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—The Genocide Education Project (GenEd) is launching a new division focused on institutions of higher education in the United States. The new division will expand the organization’s reach by sponsoring courses, lectures, exhibits, and conferences at colleges and universities.
- James Sahagian
“Our organization’s mission is to help educators teach the history and consequences of genocides, particularly the Armenian Genocide,” said Raffi Momjian, the executive director of GenEd. “This new division is an important extension of what the Genocide Education Project has been doing on a high school level since its establishment.”
The new division is led by James Sahagian, a financial advisor and Rutgers University alumnus who has been promoting Armenian studies at Rutgers for nearly 20 years. Since 1992, he and a committed group of volunteers have been responsible for raising funds and providing logistics for the campus’s Armenian Studies Program. This has included offering Armenian-language courses every semester on the New Brunswick campus, as well as five different courses on Armenian history over the past 20 years.
“There has been a long-time need for the establishment of an organization that will support the ongoing study of the Armenian Genocide from both a historical and modern human rights perspective,” said Sahagian. “As we approach the 100th year since the sinister campaign to destroy the Armenian nation was launched, it is our duty as justice-seeking people to make sure that the Armenian Genocide is not referred to as the ‘Forgotten Genocide’ any longer.”
Beginning with an Armenian Christmas party on Jan. 7, 2012, at Sayat Nova Restaurant in Hackensack, N.J., a development campaign is underway to ensure the success of GenEd Higher-Ed and the progress of the Rutgers Armenian Studies Program. (To join the party, call 201-739-0901.)
The Genocide Education Project is a non-profit organization founded in 2004 to assist educators in teaching about human rights and genocide, particularly the Armenian Genocide. GenEd develops and distributes instructional materials, provides access to teaching resources, and conducts educational workshops.
For more information, visit www.GenocideEducation.org.
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