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Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

Lemkin Institute co-founder · United States

Affiliated with Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention

Advocacy NGO

Co-founder and Executive Director of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention.

Financing

person
Money source

Donations and volunteer labor; no UN or state mandate.

Institutional alignment

Lemkin Institute leadership; genocide-studies scholar.

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Disclosures & conflicts

Volunteer-led NGO without peer-review gatekeeping for alerts. Institute independence statement rejects state funding; alerts on Gaza and other cases are explicitly advocacy positions.

Credibility & caveats

Issues active-genocide alerts — advocacy framing, contested by some governments.

How this source is used

This profile is used to weigh publishers, investigators, officials, or source material cited inside case evidence. It may not itself issue a genocide determination for a case. See the methodology for the source-weighting rules.

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