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Early Warning Project Forecasts Countries at Highest Risk of Committing New Mass Killing
April 12, 2017
For the third year in a row, Sudan and Burma rank among the three countries at greatest risk of experiencing a new episode of state-led mass killing, according to the Early Warning Project’s annual rankings released today.
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Help Us Forecast Mass Killing
April 4, 2017
The Early Warning Project invites all followers of the Simon-Skjodt Center’s work to participate in our public opinion pool to forecast mass killing. The pool is hosted by Good Judgment Inc, and this “wisdom of the crowds” approach enables us to provide real-time assessments of the risk of mass killing in various countries to complement our annual Statistical Risk Assessment.
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State of the World: Mass Killing in 2016
March 30, 2017
The Early Warning Project uses patterns from past instances of mass killing to forecast when new mass killing episodes might happen in the future. At the end of each year we update a list of countries experiencing state- and nonstate-led mass killing. The following report compiles our determinations for onsets of mass killing in 2016 and those cases that we can now judge have ended.
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ISA Convention Reveals Gap Between Research and Policy Communities for Atrocity Prevention
March 29, 2017
Sessions spanned an array of topics including peacebuilding, transitional justice, civil wars, computational methods, non-state actors, and human rights.
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Eyewitness Testimony: The Persecution of Rohingya in Burma and Bangladesh
March 28, 2017
Andrea Gittleman, Program Manager for the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, testifies before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on the human rights and humanitarian situation of the Rohingya people in Rakhine State in Burma, and along the Bangladesh border.
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The Early Warning Project Announces Fellowship to Conduct Research on Mali
March 22, 2017
The Early Warning Project has announced a new research fellowship focused on increasing knowledge of early warning for mass atrocities in Mali.
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Holocaust Survivor Al Munzer Speaks at US Capitol to Spotlight Atrocities Against Syrian Civilians
March 21, 2017
Holocaust survivor and Museum volunteer Alfred Münzer calls for the protection of Syrian civilians to be front and center of US foreign policy and the world’s attention.
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Syria’s Tragic Milestone: Six Years of Atrocities
March 15, 2017
March 15, 2017 marks the 6th anniversary of the civil war in Syria, a conflict which has cost more than 400,000 lives and forced half a nation to flee.
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Survey: Central African Republic Tops List of Countries Most Likely to See State-led Mass Killing
March 8, 2017
Central African Republic is most likely to see an onset of state-led mass killing in 2017, according to the Early Warning Project’s most recent public wiki survey.
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Podcast: Seeking Justice for the Yezidi Genocide
March 1, 2017
The Simon-Skjodt Center's Deputy Director Naomi Kikoler joined a recent Harvard Humanitarian Initiative podcast to discuss the acts the genocide, which include the murder of men and the elderly and forcing women and children into slavery, and debate the prospects for justice.
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