Founded in 1982, the Zoryan Institute is an independent research center devoted to scholarship on universal human rights, genocide, and diaspora and homeland relations. It operates the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies and the International Institute of Diaspora Studies, and has run its Genocide and Human Rights University Program for more than 400 graduates from 40 countries. It co-publishes Genocide Studies International and Diaspora, a journal of transnational studies, and holds an oral history collection of more than 786 recorded interviews.