Learning the Lessons: Education as Genocide Prevention

After the Holocaust we said ‘Never Again’ but with each subsequent genocide (Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia) we seem to have failed to learn any lessons. This paper therefore discusses what we have learned (to do genocide better), what lessons we could learn (and how) addressing the educative process itself. Focusing on the ‘Lessons from Srebrenica’ it considers the recently adopted UN Resolution on the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide and argues that a robust UN outreach programme and educational curricula should be developed using the model A Pedagogy for Social Change (Sadique, 2024) to support work towards the prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity.