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Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States. (voltairenet.org)
The primary purpose of the Atrocities Prevention Board shall be to coordinate a whole of government approach to preventing mass atrocities and genocide. (voltairenet.org)
While the Rohingya refugee crisis and the resulting humanitarian needs require immediate response by local and international stakeholders (as highlighted in a recent Simon-Skjodt Center report ) our new report Breaking Cycles of Distrust: Preventing Mass Atrocities in Bangladesh addresses the underlying risks of mass atrocities within Bangladesh that also require attention by policymakers to prevent escalation of violence in the next 12-18 months. (ushmm.org)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday underlined America's commitment to preventing mass atrocities abroad as he presented Congress with its annual report under the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018. (algemeiner.com)
In letters to the foreign ministers of the 31 countries, The Elders emphasised the need for all UN member states to take a proactive role in preventing mass atrocities, and strongly endorsed the ACT Code of Conduct as a means of holding the Security Council to account. (coalitionfortheicc.org)
Regions at Risk: Preventing Mass Atrocities in Mali " explains the factors behind three high-risk intercommunal conflicts, elaborates plausible scenarios that would lead to escalation in violence against civilians in the next 12-18 months, and proposes recommendations for how to mitigate the risk. (ushmm.org)
This cooperation strengthens the global commitment to human rights and fosters a sense of shared responsibility in addressing and preventing mass atrocities. (lu.se)

Since the start of the twentieth century, over eighty million people have died in large-scale "atrocity crimes" - campaigns of organized violence against civilians (or other protected populations such as prisoners of war) that constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide. (justsecurity.org)
Named in honor of Elie Wiesel - the Holocaust survivor, acclaimed writer, Nobel Prize winner and human rights activist who passed away in July 2016 - the purpose of the legislation is to "help prevent acts of genocide and other atrocity crimes, which threaten national and international security, by enhancing United States Government capacities to prevent, mitigate, and respond to such crises. (algemeiner.com)
As the primary international human rights body, the HRC has the capacity to prevent and respond to mass atrocity crimes, as systematic violations and abuses of human rights can be an indicator of potential genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity or ethnic cleansing. (globalr2p.org)
The summary below highlights major outcomes and relevant dialogues from the 53rd session as they relate to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), atrocity prevention and populations at risk of atrocity crimes. (globalr2p.org)
During the aggression, mass atrocities and war crimes were committed even against civilians, children, and women. (armradio.am)
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide stands alongside the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as one of the key pillars of international human rights law, and for this Human Rights Day in 2022, I want to highlight the critical importance of the responsibility to prevent atrocity crimes, which includes genocide. (dccam.org)
When atrocity crimes occur, there is an immediate need to stop these atrocious acts, followed by the equally urgent tasks of documenting, investigating, and ultimately prosecuting the perpetrators. (dccam.org)
Atrocity crimes do not occur in a vacuum. (dccam.org)
There is a long chain of events and conditions that precede atrocity crimes. (dccam.org)
Isolation, segregation, and discrimination frequently, if not always, precede the rationalization of atrocity crimes against a group of people. (dccam.org)
Indeed, the trauma of atrocity crimes in the distant past are often the forgotten seeds for the next wave of violence and inhumanity of the future. (dccam.org)
If we are to truly adopt strategies that are effective, far reaching, and decisive in preventing atrocity crimes, then our priorities must be re-oriented to the opposite end of the spectrum, where the seeds of the next genocide are cultivated. (dccam.org)
Our responsibility in complying with foundational human rights documents should be measured not solely by our success at responding, investigating, and prosecuting atrocity crimes, but by our efforts in supporting institutions, initiatives, and actions that have a positive influence in preventing all forms of inhumanity. (dccam.org)
Cambodia has achieved extraordinary success in its genocide education programme, which is the essence of atrocity crimes prevention. (dccam.org)
The use of force to protect populations from human rights violations and mass atrocity crimes. (lu.se)
This paper discusses the youthfulness and the young people like targets to the mass media (radical sports, models of beauty, rebellions, crimes, atrocities), for the specialists (psychologists, educators and psychiatrists), for the security systems (the law-breaker adolescent) and for the families (maladjusted members). (bvsalud.org)

The Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (AIPG), formerly the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, is a non-profit organization devoted to genocide and mass atrocity prevention. (wikipedia.org)

We focused our research on those scenarios that could potentially lead to more than 1000 civilian deaths over the course of a single year-a high mark of mass violence-rather than considering less severe, albeit still serious, forms of violence against civilians. (ushmm.org)
Mass atrocities by Government forces and non-State armed groups continue to take place in Syria, causing immeasurable suffering to civilians and contributing to a spillover of violence affecting international peace and stability, a United Nations-appointed panel said today. (juancole.com)
The international community's failure in its most elemental duties - to protect civilians, halt and prevent atrocities and create a path toward accountability - has been matched on the ground by an abandonment of even the pretence of an adherence to norms of international law. (juancole.com)
Why did Islamist rebel groups commit atrocities against civilians in Algeria in the late 1990s? (justsecurity.org)
As we warned a year ago: "Numerous warning signs of a potential genocide against the Tigray people are present: reports of massacres and other targeted killings of Tigray civilians, dehumanization and hate speech - amplified on social media - inciting violence against group members, mass arrests and arbitrary detention and possible collective punishment in the form of a man-made famine in the Tigray region. (sd24news.com)
The commission of these mass atrocities and the failure thus far to prevent them or protect civilians (Tigray) is a stain on our human conscience. (sd24news.com)
2. In Sudan we find an example of how building community resilience over time can help protect civilians in high atrocity risk situations. (peacedirect.org)
This is a good example of how building community resilience over time through the establishment of peace committees led to the protection of civilians in a high atrocity risk situation. (peacedirect.org)

The mass atrocities and genocides committed in twentieth-century Europe spurred a worldwide consensus that there is a responsibility among states to both prevent and punish such heinous acts. (csce.gov)
Economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention / by: Anderton, Charles H., et al. (villanova.edu)

This book brings together a diverse range of international voices from academia, policymaking and civil society to address the failure to connect historical dialogue with atrocity prevention discourse and provide insight into how conflict histories and historical memory act as dynamic forces, actively facilitating or deterring current and future conflict. (routledge.com)
Elements contributing to the country's relatively high ranking in the statistical risk assessment, as compared to other countries, relate to the country's history of mass atrocities during the Liberation War in 1971, its status as a partial democracy with factionalism, and the existence of armed conflict elsewhere in the region. (ushmm.org)
The prevailing view in modern conflict scholarship is that such atrocities are typically a brutal but comprehensible tool that states and armed groups use to achieve military victory and maintain political control. (justsecurity.org)
The notion that a civilian, not a member of the military, who will document war, conflict, atrocity and share that with an audience, that really emerges in the 1850s. (cigionline.org)
Ethnic targeting and the commission of mass atrocities have been a deliberate strategy of the parties to the conflict between the Ethiopian and regional Tigray governments and their allies that began in November 2020. (sd24news.com)
We conclude that the Kidal conflict does not pose a plausible risk for mass atrocities over the next 12-18 months, but does merit close monitoring. (ushmm.org)
To mark the 25 years that have passed since the Rwandan genocide, we'll be discussing the role of media in times of civil conflict and mass atrocity. (frontlineclub.com)
I am honored to share some of our experience and understanding of what works to prevent mass atrocities, and particularly what we have learned through Peace Direct's 15 years of supporting and partnering with local people on the frontlines of violent conflict. (peacedirect.org)

This has left us ill prepared to engage early, proactively, and decisively to prevent threats from evolving into large scale civilian atrocities. (voltairenet.org)
On June 21, 2023, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide brought together Burmese civil society leaders to discuss the mass atrocities being committed against civilian populations by the Burmese military and what the United States can do to mitigate these threats and prevent future atrocities. (ushmm.org)

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide explores the many and sometimes complicated ways in which religion, faith, doctrine, and practice intersect in societies where mass atrocity and genocide occur. (villanova.edu)
The examples he draws on - footage of early killings during the Rwandan genocide, and a viral video of a 2015 execution in Cameroon - shed light on the perplexing terrain where media and mass atrocity intersect. (cigionline.org)

The junta relies heavily on these funds to commit atrocities like those in Sagaing. (earthrights.org)
Those actors need a reason to commit atrocities, and the means and opportunity to do so. (theofficerwolflion.com)
Every effort must be made to reduce the capacity and costs of those who commit mass atrocities. (sd24news.com)

Noted the secretary of state: "The Elie Wiesel Act and the US government's atrocity prevention efforts serve as a model to the world. (algemeiner.com)

All of us in Guild leadership are horrified by the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th," said WGA West boss Meredith Stiehm, VP Michele Mulroney and Treasurer Betsy Thomas in an email sent to members Tuesday morning. (yahoo.com)
In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attacks, we did not issue a public statement, not because we were not horrified by the atrocities, but because it felt outside the purview of a U.S. labor union representing writers to comment on it. (yahoo.com)
It was part of the Israeli military's effort to document and call attention to the Oct. 7 atrocities, when the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from air, land and sea . (go.com)

This discussion will explore the tools and apparatuses available to these National Mechanisms and how they are employed in developing and implementing a unified national policy for genocide and mass atrocity prevention. (pambazuka.org)
Other nations participate in the creation and operation of ad hoc and longterm international criminal institutions, and at times use the United Nations' cumbersome mechanisms to name and even condemn mass violence, but fail to provide swift and effective action to prevent or mitigate mass atrocities. (harvard.edu)

But ensuring that the full range of options is available requires a level of governmental organization that matches the methodical organization characteristic of mass killings. (voltairenet.org)
The Burmese military is responsible for mass atrocities across Burma, including killings, arbitrary detention, the burning of villages, and the restricting of humanitarian aid and essential services. (ushmm.org)

Denying Bucha: The Kremlin's influence tactics in the aftermath of the 2022 Bucha atrocity. (lu.se)

We will continue to promote accountability for perpetrators of genocide and other atrocities. (algemeiner.com)
If the perpetrators enjoy impunity, this may be seen as a "green light" to expand a genocidal or mass atrocity campaign. (theofficerwolflion.com)
It also calls for Treasury to revisit the feasibility of creating a stand-alone sanctions regime dedicated to atrocities prevention (independent of any country designation) and aimed at perpetrators and enablers. (justsecurity.org)

Accordingly, I hereby direct the establishment of an interagency Atrocities Prevention Board within 120 days from the date of this Presidential Study Directive. (voltairenet.org)
To this end, I direct the National Security Advisor to lead a focused interagency study to develop and recommend the membership, mandate, structure, operational protocols, authorities, and support necessary for the Atrocities Prevention Board to coordinate and develop atrocity prevention and response policy. (voltairenet.org)
The Atrocities Prevention Board (APB) was supposed to be a revenue neutral enterprise , which overtaxed agencies. (justsecurity.org)

The United States Agency for International Development, the European Union, and other international agencies should (1) ensure that programs aimed at countering violent extremism complement efforts to prevent mass atrocities and (2) expand support for local peacebuilding programs. (ushmm.org)
The report calls for better alignment between preventing and countering violent extremism initiatives (P/CVE) focused on non-state actors (NSAs) with atrocities prevention efforts, given the role that NSAs play in propagating mass atrocities. (justsecurity.org)

These risks have only increased, and our Early Warning Project consistently ranks Ethiopia among the ten countries at highest risk of a new outbreak of mass killing in the world. (sd24news.com)
Ensure that ounterterrorism operations do not exacerbate risks of mass atrocities. (ushmm.org)

Sixty six years since the Holocaust and 17 years after Rwanda, the United States still lacks a comprehensive policy framework and a corresponding interagency mechanism for preventing and responding to mass atrocities and genocide. (voltairenet.org)
Psychiatrists such as Eberl were at the center of every stage of justifying, planning and carrying out the mass murder of those with mental disorders, and constituted the connection to the later annihilation of Jews and other "undesirables" in the Holocaust. (ahrp.org)

Second, the idea that political leaders implement mass atrocities to realise longstanding and grandiose ideological goals has been challenged by research showing both a) the haphazard and erratic decision-making that often leads to large-scale killing, and b) the more prosaic, self-interested, "pragmatic" functions the violence often serves. (justsecurity.org)

The new arrivals joined hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who had fled to Bangladesh during previous episodes of mass violence. (ushmm.org)
Several themes emerged about worrisome trends from our analysis, including growing political factionalism, past violence around the 2014 election, authoritarianism, impunity for serious human rights violations, and crackdowns on civil society that could serve as a source of resiliency against mass violence. (ushmm.org)
He also said that Azerbaijani telegram channels were "posting photos of missing Armenian women and children from Nagorno-Karabakh, and calling for violence, rape, beheadings and promising rewards for them and for videos with atrocities. (armradio.am)
While detained on the bridge, we tried to bring attention to issues of state violence, mass incarceration and foreign occupation that Silicon Valley otherwise has the ability to ignore. (thenation.com)
I have been honored to serve on a bipartisan Experts Committee on Preventing Mass Violence -convened by a coalition of human rights, religious, humanitarian, and peace organizations-for the purpose of generating a set of concrete recommendations around the atrocities prevention imperative for the next administration. (justsecurity.org)
In the testimony available below, she shared our experience with our local partners, presented examples of how local peacebuilding prevents mass violence, and provided three lessons from local peacebuilders for atrocity prevention. (peacedirect.org)
While the current situation in Burundi remains deeply concerning, the country has not erupted into mass violence as some feared it would. (peacedirect.org)
Our resources on the Nanjing atrocities challenge students to consider the complex questions that this history raises about wartime violence, justice, and memory. (facinghistory.org)

Use these resources to help students bear witness to the events through the voices of Nanjing survivors, reflect on the consequences of human action and inaction during times of crisis, and consider how to achieve justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of atrocities. (facinghistory.org)

Pompeo said that the US government had made "significant progress in preventing, mitigating, and responding to atrocities globally. (algemeiner.com)
We believe these local peacebuilders are a critical missing link in the world's efforts to prevent mass atrocities and the most untapped resource for peacebuilding globally. (peacedirect.org)

The methods employed and conditions of detention support the Commission's long-standing findings of systematic torture and mass deaths of detainees. (juancole.com)

The US should accelerate the implementation of the Burma Act to provide comprehensive assistance to survivors of atrocities, and it should ensure that this assistance reaches Rohingya genocide victims and survivors. (ushmm.org)

We have enhanced early warning, strengthened civil society and multilateral engagement, and increased the capacity of US government personnel to coordinate, integrate, and institutionalize atrocity prevention across our foreign policy," he asserted. (algemeiner.com)

This report is the third in a series of deep-dive qualitative assessments designed to assist policymakers, NGOs, and members of civil society in understanding the atrocity dynamics particular to the country in question and recommending preventative actions. (ushmm.org)

In terms of civil society, recommendations focus on the role that NGOs can play in building public support and a national constituency for atrocities prevention. (justsecurity.org)

Even before the advent of modern-day war reporting, someone has always recorded or reconstructed horrific scenes of human atrocity - this is reflected in historic texts and art. (cigionline.org)
Julia Kristeva's theory of the abject underpins the argument, that the media, while bringing atrocities to the public's attention, also establish a reassuring distance to the scenes of atrocity, and enthrall the viewer in a fascination with the images themselves. (lu.se)

No atrocities crime trial has ever prevented the next genocide, and no sanctions or punishment can bring back the dead or undo the trauma that extends across multiple generations. (dccam.org)

In addition to coordinating his bureau's atrocity prevention efforts, Jeff also manages atrocity prevention training for the Department of State as well as participating with interagency colleagues as part of the Atrocity Prevention Task Force. (binghamton.edu)

As Elders, we have watched with horror at the current failure of the international community to halt brutal conflicts from Syria to Yemen and South Sudan, situations where mass atrocities have increasingly been embraced as a weapon of war designed to terrorise and devastate entire communities. (coalitionfortheicc.org)

A news search for "Bangladesh" and "atrocities" today will turn up dozens of articles about how this South Asian country is responding to a huge influx of Rohingya refugees from its neighbor to the east, Burma . (ushmm.org)
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Will Rice and Power's expertise and commitment to stopping mass atrocities be enough to actually change the priorities of US foreign policy? (amnestyusa.org)

they volunteered and enthusiastically exploited the opportunity of conducting cutting-edge physiological experiments of their own design, on individuals whom they selected, within the context of mass murder in hospital killing centers and in concentration camps. (ahrp.org)
Explore this collection of lesson plans and student materials that place the Nanjing Atrocities within the larger context of World War II in East Asia. (facinghistory.org)
Begin teaching this history using our 5-lesson unit or by exploring our Nanjing atrocities book for additional context. (facinghistory.org)

The imperative of prevention requires a deep analysis of the drivers of risk and relevant mitigating factors though our report does not presuppose such atrocities will happen for certain. (ushmm.org)
This report is one of the components of the Early Warning Project, which includes both quantitative and qualitative assessments of atrocity risk. (ushmm.org)
The report contains a number of concrete recommendations aimed at further developing and improving the atrocities prevention bureaucratic infrastructure. (justsecurity.org)
I'd also like to request that the executive summary of our recent report Atrocity Prevention and Peacebuilding , which documents further research on these issues, be included in the record with my testimony today. (peacedirect.org)
Destruction and Devastation: One Year of Russia's Assault on Ukraine's Health Care System" is the title of a report published in February by eyeWitness to Atrocities, Insecurity Insight, Media Initiative for Human Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, and Ukrainian Healthcare Center. (medscape.com)

The Elders have urged the governments of 31 countries, including Brazil, India and South Africa, to sign a UN Code of Conduct initiative committing them not to obstruct credible Security Council resolutions designed to halt or prevent mass atrocities. (coalitionfortheicc.org)

At least 440 graves were found at a mass burial site in the city in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky saying that some of the bodies have "signs of torture. (cnn.com)
CNN recently reported more mass graves having been exhumed in the Izium area, again with bodies exhibiting signs of torture and execution. (err.ee)
This essay discusses the dissemination of atrocity images in contemporary mass media, from the photographs of mass-graves in the Nazi concentration camps to the pictures of torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib. (lu.se)

Organized two SSHRC sponsodered events: "Rwanda and Beyond: Media and Mass Atrocities" in partnership with CIGI and Carleton University, and "Global Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Decoding How Technology is Transforming International Relations. (concordia.ca)

Established on a variety of international case studies combining theoretical and practical points of view, the book envisions an integrated understanding of how historical dialogue can inform policy, education, and the practice of atrocity prevention. (routledge.com)

Breaking the Cycle of Mass Atrocities investigates the role of international criminal law at different stages of mass atrocities, shifting away from its narrow understanding solely as an instrument of punishment of those most responsible. (bokkilden.no)
How do nurses, whose role is inherently linked to care and compassion, become mass killers? (coventry.ac.uk)
Embassies and posts have a crucial role to play in this work and should be augmented, rather than drawn down, when mass atrocities are looming to ensure a more effective on-the-ground response. (justsecurity.org)

Governmental engagement on atrocities and genocide too often arrives too late, when opportunities for prevention or low-cost, low-risk action have been missed. (voltairenet.org)
When the Simon-Skjodt Center began this research on Bangladesh in mid-2016, some observers were skeptical that mass atrocities were a real risk in the country. (ushmm.org)
Yet, Bangladesh ranked among the top 10% of countries-ranging from 12th to 16th-for each of the last three years on the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide's Early Warning Project's global statistical risk assessment , all the while receiving minimal attention from the policymakers in terms of atrocity prevention. (ushmm.org)
Today, there is a potential risk of mass atrocities in Mali as multiple armed groups vie for power in a vacuum of state authority. (ushmm.org)
In Kidal, if the status quo changes, the situation would require a reevaluation of atrocity risk. (ushmm.org)
On Wednesday 14th November the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing on Reducing the Risk of Mass Atrocities. (peacedirect.org)

The city of Izium, around 130km to the southeast of Kharkiv, was the site of the grim discovery of mass graves, as reported by the international media a week ago. (err.ee)
The terrain where media and mass atrocity meet is really a place where nobody wants to be. (cigionline.org)

Today, I want to share three examples of how local peacebuilding can help prevent atrocities, along with three lessons and specific recommendations for Congress. (peacedirect.org)
Their experience offers important lessons in how long-term investments in locally-led peacebuilding can build social resilience and help prevent mass atrocities. (peacedirect.org)

There, he works as an expert on the implementation of the R2P (Responsibility to Protect) framework in Africa and has broad experience in translating atrocity prevention principles into concrete policy. (binghamton.edu)

In his opening statement, Commission co-chairman James McGovern said in part:We are persuaded that atrocities are not the product of "ancient" ethnic or religious hatreds but rather of conscious, strategic decisions by ruling elites and non-state actors to achieve specific ends. (theofficerwolflion.com)

Jeffrey Sizemore serves as the U.S. State Department Senior Advisor on Atrocity Prevention at the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in the Office of Security and Human Rights . (binghamton.edu)
Yesterday, Congress' Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing on prevention of mass atrocities around the world. (theofficerwolflion.com)

Yet this ideology-centric picture of mass atrocities has been heavily challenged over the last three decades. (justsecurity.org)

The Elders believe that recent events in Syria underscore the need for concerted action to prevent mass atrocities including chemical weapons attacks. (coalitionfortheicc.org)
1. Burundi demonstrates the importance of long-term investments in locally-led peacebuilding to help prevent mass atrocities. (peacedirect.org)

they legitimized mass murder. (ahrp.org)

Power has inspired scores of people in this country - including myself - to act against mass atrocities. (amnestyusa.org)

The Digital Mass Atrocity Prevention Lab (DMAP Lab) is a policy hub working to hate speech, combat genocidal ideologies online and work as a counter force against extremists and their ideas. (concordia.ca)

More suspected mass graves have been found in the area, though their location cannot be disclosed at this point in time. (err.ee)

The military is also responsible for the mass exploitation of natural resources and large-scale land grabs. (ushmm.org)

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