'New Chapter': Keene State Launches Innovative Certificate in Applied Genocide Prevention
Keene State College is proud to announce the launch of its certificate in applied genocide prevention. The graduate program is designed to equip scholars, policymakers, and practitioners with practical tools to prevent genocide and related atrocities worldwide.
“This marks a new chapter in our graduate program’s mission to offer cutting-edge training in genocide prevention that extends beyond the university and is accessible to the practitioners and stakeholders advancing this work in their communities,” said Dr. Ashley Greene, who leads the program and serves as chair and associate professor in the Holocaust & Genocide Studies Department at Keene State College.
At the program’s unveiling in September, Keene State College President Melinda Treadwell reiterated the College’s commitment to the study of genocide prevention.
“Our dedication to genocide prevention extends far beyond the classroom. Keene State, as New Hampshire’s public liberal arts college, is committed to teaching and learning that fosters dialogue, innovation, and real-world application of solutions to advance the common good. The prevention of genocide is a global public good that requires a united effort from all stakeholders.”
Emphasizing a transdisciplinary approach to the prevention of genocide, the certificate is taught by world-renowned scholars and practitioners with decades of experience in law, policy, education, human trafficking, religion, trauma, transitional justice, and atrocity prevention.
The program features an asynchronous online format, making it accessible to students around the world. The certificate can be earned in one year. Courses feature interactive work and high-impact learning experiences that connect you with an engaged cohort of students and with experts and organizations practicing atrocity prevention around the world.
The certificate program, Greene noted, is distinct in its inclusion of students from non-traditional education pathways, including those without an undergraduate degree.
“Too often, the people most affected by genocide are left out of our strategies for prevention. The people whose lives were upended, whose schools were destroyed, who have been working with survivors and perpetrators in their communities, they have knowledge that is critical to developing prevention strategies that work better than the ones we have now.”
Keene State houses one of the few dedicated undergraduate majors in Holocaust & genocide studies in the country and was the first U.S. college or university to offer it, in 2009.
