Along with coverage of news events and analyses of events, GPN has published outstanding new breakthrough studies of the process of genocide denials and how to combat it, genocide prevention. The first issues of GPN also included a new approach to mapping Timelines for genocidal events and for evaluating ongoing incitement to genocide developed by Prof. Elihu Richter, former director of GPN’s World Genocide Situation Room.

GPN also provides a comprehensive review of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and its prevention. Genocide studies is a profoundly interdisciplinary field, so that interest in the website comes from many people in a wide variety of fields and facets of life in the academic world. Today there are genocide scholars and groups of researchers in all of the many academic disciplines including History, Peace Studies, Economics, International Affairs, Diplomatic Studies, Criminology, Philosophy, Political Science, Medicine and Public Health, and more.

A steadily growing number of universities around the world are also beginning to offer degree programs specifically in Holocaust and genocide studies.