In 2022, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE) partnered with The Reckoning Project (TRP), an international NGO collecting legally-admissible testimonies from victims and witnesses of potential war crimes in Ukraine. From September 2022 - February 2024, WCEE’s team of faculty and students led by Professor Zubrzycki translated, edited, and analyzed testimonies from more than 300 incidents and prepared them for legal, archival, commemorative, and educational purposes.

In February 2024, WCEE released a website featuring an archive of testimonies and two interactive maps that allow users to visualize patterns of violence and other reported war crimes. These resources serve as a foundation for the free teaching guide and textbook developed by WCEE for high school educators to teach about the war and broader issues such as human rights, genocide, war crimes, and sovereignty. WCEE also offers recommendations on how to integrate the high school teaching guide and textbook into college-level courses to facilitate informed discussions and deepen students' understanding of the conflict’s complexities and global significance.

Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and in collaboration with Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU), WCEE published its textbook and teaching guides in Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian. Versions in French, Polish, and other critical languages will be available in the near future.

More here: www.thereckoningproject-wcee.org