Essay Competition After Raphael Lemkin

Deadline: 30 November 2014
Open to: everyone
Awards: up to 300 EUR

Description

“Society Initiatives Institute”, an Ukraine NGO, seeks to eliminate embarrassing information void in the social, cultural and spiritual spheres, formed around the figure of the scientist, lawyer, expert on international law Raphael Lemkin, scholar who created and implemented in the broadest scientific and legal usage, the term “genocide.” In order to properly commemorate the name of Raphael Lemkin and to spread and continue the theoretical researches on the issues of genocides, “Society Initiatives Institute” is organizing the International Essay Contest:  “Genocide – the dark mark of humanity”. Essay may be written in the context of legal, political, historical, cultural, economic or any other issue connected to genocide.

Eligibility

The contest is open to all individuals across the globe.

Awards

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners chosen by the Committee will be awarded with 300, 200 and 100 EUR respectively. The best essays will be published on web-pages of organization and its partners.

Application

In order to apply you must submit one essay developed in English, Ukrainian, Russian or Polish, that reflects your own writing and original thinking. It should be maximum 1000 words long in the following format: essay title / author’s name and contacts / school/university/affiliation / essay (introduction, main arguments, conclusions).

Essays and all questions should be sent to essay@sii.org.ua.

The deadline for submissions is 30 November 2014.

For further information please visit the official website.

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