Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation

The Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR) is a non-profit organization devoted to genocide and mass atrocity prevention, best known for its Raphael Lemkin Seminars for Genocide Prevention organized annually in Auschwitz, and for serving as the technical secretariat of the Latin American Network for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention. AIPR acquired legal status as a 501(c)(3) in the United States in January 2007. The organization is headquartered in New York City and also has offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in Kampala, Uganda, and Oswiecim, Poland.

AIPR is an NGO that provides technical assistance and training to governments, emphasizing a long term approach to genocide prevention. AIPR's Executive Director is Dr. Tibi Galis, declared by The Huffington Post as the "greatest person of the day" on June 26, 2011.[1]

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  1. ↑ Huffington Post website, accessed June 6, 2015

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