The Reckoning Project @ WCEE

The Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE) partners with The Reckoning Project (TRP), an international NGO focused on collecting legally-admissible testimonies from victims and witnesses of potential war crimes in Ukraine. TRP works closely with Ukraine’s General Prosecutor and international legal bodies to seek justice for victims.

WCEE’s team of student research assistants, translators, and editors carefully analyzed testimonies from more than 300 incidents and prepared them for legal, archival, commemorative, and educational purposes.

In February 2024, WCEE released a new 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, in partnership with the University of Michigan's Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER), for high school educators to teach about the war and broader issues such as human rights, genocide, war crimes, and sovereignty. The curriculum satisfies multiple high school social studies standards in World and U.S. History, as well as reading standards for informational texts. 

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. For courses in the social sciences, humanities, and law, the guide suggests a range of issues, discussion questions, and possible assignments.

Click the images below to download the textbook, teaching guide, and higher education guide free of charge.

For questions and comments, contact WCEE Special Projects Manager Derek Groom at djgroom@umich.edu.