About Us

The Genocide Intervention Network empowers individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. Our members envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. As part of the anti-genocide movement, we raise both money and political will for civilian protection initiatives around the world.

In the past, the United States and the international community have failed to prevent and stop genocide because of a lack of political will in our elected officials and among our citizens. There was no political consequence for our leaders if they did not take action. . . until now. The Genocide Intervention Network (GI-NET) is mobilizing a permanent anti-genocide constituency that lobbies our leaders for substantial action, and creates a political cost for those officials who fail to take these necessary actions.

In addition to providing our members with the tools they need to successfully lobby against genocide, GI-NET also gives our members the opportunity to directly protect civilians on the ground where genocide and mass atrocities are occurring through our unique Civilian Protection Program. For more information on this program, please click here.

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GI-NET Vision

The Genocide Intervention Network(GI-NET) empowers individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. We envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities.

GI-NET's theory of change is based on the recognition that a diverse cross-section of the American population cares deeply about ending and preventing genocide, regardless of where it might occur, and that constituent pressure can make genocide prevention an important and relevant political priority for American elected officials and policymakers.

We believe that if given the tools, ordinary Americans can become everyday upstanders against genocide. Our innovative tools and programs provide citizens with the resources to educate, organize, and advocate in their communities.

By investing heavily in individuals and empowering them to be local leaders on their campuses and in their communities, GI-NET provides hands-on opportunities for Americans to make genocide prevention a domestic political issue.

GI-NET History

Genocide Intervention Network: Have a Hand in Stopping Genocide

The Genocide Intervention Network (originally the Genocide Intervention Fund) was created by students at Swarthmore College in the fall of 2004 to give concerned Americans the opportunity to help protect civilians from genocide. GI-NET's founders believed that private contributions in support of peacekeepers in Darfur, Sudan, the site of the twenty-first century's first genocide, could protect civilians and inspire policymakers to take action. With the help of high-profile endorsers, GI-NET established a landmark program which allows average Americans to have a direct impact on the ground where genocide is occurring, by helping to fund civilian protection projects. GI-NET has developed several unique projects in Darfur that provide protection for women and girls in refugee camps in North Darfur, and is expanding the program to protect civilians in other mass atrocity zones, including Burma. In the long term, we believe empowering individuals to stand against genocide will build the political will necessary for the international community to recognize its responsibility to protect the victims of genocide and mass atrocities.

GI-NET Projects

Are you a student? Check out STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition. STAND is a nationwide, student-led division of the Genocide Intervention Network, which mobilizes high school and college-age young adults through more than 800 campus chapters.

Our targeted divestment campaign coordinates grassroots activism and lobbying to divest funds from the most egregious, worst-offending companies operating in Sudan, without doing harm to innocent Sudanese civilians.

Our toll-free hotline provides citizens with an easy way to contact their elected officials. Callers receive up-to-date talking points before being connected directly with their member of Congress, governor or the president.

Our widely-used congressional scorecard on Darfur grades each member of Congress on his or her record on ending the Darfur genocide.

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