International Program on Holocaust and Genocide Education (IPHGE)

International Program on Holocaust and Genocide Education (IPHGE) first conference took place in which year?

a) 2015 or b) 2017

Answer: A

Solution: 2015

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International Program on Holocaust and Genocide Education (IPHGE):

• IPHGE is a joint initiative of UNESCO and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• It seeks to globally advance the institutionalization of education about the Holocaust and genocide in locally relevant ways that contribute to peaceful and sustainable societies.
• It supports and promotes the efforts of local education leaders from countries where education about the Holocaust and genocide may be further developed.
• IPHGE conferences starts with a conference that brings together policymakers, curriculum developers, teacher trainers and educators to provide them with the knowledge, tools and methods to develop their own projects, tailored to their national context.
  • These projects are implemented during the second project phase.
• The first conference took place in 2015 in Washington, DC .
• The conference gathered educational stakeholders from Chile, Hungary, India, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Republic of Korea, Rwanda and Turkey.

About United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM):

• A nonpartisan, federal educational institution, the USHMM is America’s national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust dedicated to ensuring the permanence of Holocaust memory, understanding, and relevance.