MIGS' work is cutting edge. Peace and conflict resolution are its primary goals. The Institute seeks not only to uncover the underlying reasons for genocide and other crimes against humanity, but also to put forth concrete policy recommendations to resolve conflicts before they intensify and spiral into mass atrocity crimes.
Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and other Human Rights Violations is an oral history project exploring Montrealers’ experiences and memories of mass violence and displacement. A team of both university and community-based researchersis in the process of recording life story interviews with more than 500 Montreal residents over the course of the next five years.
MIGS welcomes to the MIGS web site the drawings of one of Montreal's most outstanding cartoonists, Rupert Bazambanza