Mission
Teacher workshop, Battambang, Cambodia, 2014. Courtesy of the Documentation Center, Cambodia
Ending hate through education
The Educators Institute for Human Rights (EIHR) creates partnerships among educators around the world to teach the history of conflict and prevention strategies to build sustainable peace.
EIHR’s Director of Education for Rwanda, Aimable Mpayimana, conferences with teachers at an EIHR workshop at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, 2020
Taking lessons from the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis, The Killing Fields of Cambodia and other historic violations of human rights, EIHR partners with teachers to teach high and middle school students how egregious conflicts evolve, how justice is served and, most importantly, how we can prevent future conflicts through education and understanding.
Conflict thrives when we tolerate hate
Real and lasting peace demands years — even generations — to take hold. As educators, we play a key role in that evolution by shaping the thinking and character of new generations raised without hate.
Mothers of Srebrenica Fazila Efendić and Hadiža Mehmedović with EIHR Exec. Director Kate English, Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2011
Teacher by teacher, student by student, EIHR works with local partners to provide training and materials customized to local contexts, convenes workshops and summits, and builds strong networks of educators. We help them teach with confidence about hatred and conflict to become a global force for lasting peace.
Jean de Dieu Dusingize, principal of G.S. Kinsana, Gashanda sector, leading a student assembly with EIHR staff in Rwanda, 2014
