Location

Hamburg High School:
4111 Legion Drive,
Hamburg, New York 14075
Phone number: 646-3301
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MISSION STATEMENT:

The Summer Institute for Human Rights and Genocide Studies will provide high school students with a learning experience focused on the historical legacy of human rights policy and episodes of genocide during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Institute will carefully examine the historical context contributing to genocide and the American response to genocide throughout the past one hundred years. By providing students with a pointed curriculum which begins with the Holocaust and stretches to the current situation in Darfur, the Institute offers students a focused look at the continuing story of genocide in our world and tries to provide the hope and knowledge necessary to respond intelligently and to one day make a difference.

GOALS:

  1. Provide high school students a focused examination of genocide starting with the Holocaust and concluding with an investigation of our world today.
  2. Give high school students the opportunity to develop the knowledge and understanding necessary to actively involve themselves with issues of human rights.
  3. Inspire each student to reach out to make the world a better place.