Irish musician Bob Geldof is to announce plans for the world's first genocide centre today in England.
The Aegis Institute will become the permanent home of the Genocide Prevention Institute, which was launched in London two years ago.
The centre will house an exhibition on the causes and consequences of genocide and provide education, conference and research facilities.
Former Boomtown Rat Geldof was one of the main organisers of the Live Aid famine relief concert in the 1980s.
He has continued to campaign on famine issues but has also turned his attention to the issue of "ethnic cleansing" in recent years.
The Aegis Institute will open next to the Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire in 2005.
