The Genocide Intervention Network envisions a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. Our mission is to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide.

We focus in three main areas: fundraising for civilian protection, advocacy, and education.

FUNDRAISING
We are the only organization raising money directly for civilian protection in Darfur. By supporting our members and allied organizations with tools to hold effective fundraisers, we are giving every person the opportunity to concretely and positively affect the situation on the ground. You literally can have a hand in stopping genocide.

ADVOCACY
Our Darfur scorecard rates each member of the US Congress on his or her action — or lack of action — to stop the genocide in Darfur. Through regular action alerts, call-in days, member trainings and advocacy kits, GI-Net gives every person the opportunity to hold their legislators accountable to promises of "Never Again."

EDUCATION
You can't stop a genocide you don't know about. That's why the Genocide Intervention Network works to increase the coverage of and understanding about the genocide in Darfur, through initiatives like Be A Witness and regular news briefings on Darfur. We maintain a list of multimedia, and make Darfur videos and images available for activists to use in their own work.

As long as genocide continues in Darfur, it will remain the Genocide Intervention Network’s primary focus. However, there are other conflicts in the world that also warrant urgent attention, and GI-Net is committed to building the first permanent anti-genocide constituency. Rather than ad-hoc groups coming together each time a crisis erupts, the anti-genocide movement will fundamentally change the way the world responds to genocide by making inaction in the face of atrocity unthinkable.

For more information, please visit the Genocide Intervention Network or join us on MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, Flickr or YouTube!

The Genocide Intervention Network was created in the fall of 2004 to focus the attention and efforts of Americans on protecting civilians from genocide. The focus on civilian protection led the group’s founders to develop a program to raise private contributions to support peacekeepers in Darfur, Sudan, the site of the twenty-first century’s first genocide.

While galvanizing private support for direct civilian protection will always be a primary goal, GI-Net decided in the fall of 2005 to establish a national membership to inspire the political will to prevent and stop genocide.