ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the rapid growth in genocide awareness and activism from four perspectives. The perspectives are the genesis of the anti-genocide movement; the impact of anti-genocide groups' efforts on the violent conflict in Darfur, Sudan; general weaknesses of the anti-genocide movement; and anti-genocide activism between 2011 and early 2015. The chapter shows that if citizens and activists never spoke up about potential and actual cases of genocide, it is fairly certain that in more cases than not little to nothing would be done by their government to address them. It also believes that it would behoove the anti-genocide movement to take the time and effort to seriously assess its strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures, and the criticisms, no matter how harsh or shrill, aimed at it. There is little doubt that many, if not a vast majority, of the individuals who make up the current anti-genocide movement care deeply about the plight and fate of those facing genocide.
