MeaningfulWorld Launches the 30th Annual Krieger Contest
on How to Prevent Genocides & Wars?
FOR HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS
Essay Subject: "What the Legacy of Genocide Means to Me"
2025 Awards, deadline 20 May 2025
$150.00 for High School student winner (2 awardees)
$250.00 for College/University student winner (2 awardees)
Eligibility and Submission Criteria:
1. Students must be enrolled in high school (Grades 10-12) or college/university (undergraduate level).
2. Essays must be original and unpublished.
3. Essays must include social, psychological, philosophical, or human rights perspectives, and ideally should
reference to multiple genocides both current & past, multiple references, books, research, and eyewitness accounts.
4. Essay must explore the concept of denialism practices against all genocides that are mentioned in the essay
5. Essays must be in English, typewritten, double-spaced, and 1,000-2,000 words in length.
6. Must include the Ottoman Turkish Genocide of the Armenians and other Christian minorities in 1915 and current
Ethnic cleansing in Artsakh.
7. All submissions become the property of MeaningfulWorld and will not be returned.
8. We encourage the use of Columbia Armenian Oral History Archive, 1968-1977 | Rare Book & Manuscript
Library | multiple genocides must be included including Ottoman Turkish
more details on our website