Jim Fussell is the Executive Director of Prevent Genocide International ( http://www.preventgenocide.org ), an educational project based in Washington, D.C.

His recent speaking engagements include the lecture on active bystanders opposing genocide at the three-day February 2006 Genocide Symposium at Grinnell College in Iowa. Other recent talks include a lecture on "Responsiblity to Protect and Humanitarian Intervention" at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as papers on the concept of genocide presented to the 2nd International Conference on Genocide in Sacramento, California and to the Seminar on Death at Columbia University in New York.

Mr. Fussell is currently writing a biography of Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), who coined the word genocide in 1943. He is also advisor to a future museum exhibit and forthcoming documentary film on Lemkin. In 2003 he organized the panel "Recent Scholarship on Raphael Lemkin" at the 5th International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference in Galway, Ireland, where his paper discussed Lemkin's activities at the Nuremberg Tribunal and he presented "Lemkin's War: The World War II Origins of the Term Genocide" to the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

In 2001, he presented "Group Classification on National ID Cards as a Factor in Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing" to the Seminar Series of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. The article was later published in the anthology, National Identification Systems: Essays in Opposition, edited by Carl Watner with Wendy McElroy (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland: 2004).

Mr. Fussell is also a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity (Dinah Shelton, editor, MacMillan, 2004). In June 2005 he presented "Fasting as a Method To Demand International Protection For the People of Darfur, Sudan" to the 6th International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference in Boca Raton, Florida.

He is also a member of a local Quaker Meeting, husband of a brilliant math teacher and father of two delightful elementary age children.