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Introducing a Strategic Framework for Helping Prevent Mass Atrocities
September 5, 2023
Thinking about strategies—how a set of actions will yield impact—should help policy makers increase the likelihood of preventing mass atrocities. The Simon-Skjodt Center’s new report offers a framework to encourage thinking holistically about which prevention tools used together are likely to have the greatest impact.
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An Interview with Ambassador Michèle Taylor
April 19, 2023
We spoke with Ambassador Michèle Taylor, US Permanent Representative to the UN Human Rights Council, about her family’s experience surviving the Holocaust and the impact that made on her human rights and atrocity prevention work.
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Distilling the Atrocity Prevention Literature: A Guide for Policy Makers and Researchers
December 12, 2022
To help policy makers and researchers seeking to understand the key findings from our Lessons Learned project, we distill and summarize evidence about success factors associated with the effectiveness of atrocity prevention tools.
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Urgent Action Needed: Hazaras in Afghanistan Under Attack
August 10, 2022
Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the risk of mass atrocities has increased for vulnerable groups, including ethnic and religious minorities. The Hazara community is experiencing increasing and widespread attacks by ISIS-KP and the Taliban alongside a history of persecution, necessitating an immediate response by the US and other governments.
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Five Ways to Make the U.S. Atrocity Prevention Strategy Work
August 2, 2022
Real challenges remain, but the strategy represents important progress. Here's what civil society experts want to see next.
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Atrocity Prevention Lessons Learned: Common Theme in New US Strategy and Simon-Skjodt Center Project
July 20, 2022
One strong theme in the new US government’s United States Strategy to Anticipate, Prevent, and Respond to Atrocities is the importance of evaluation, learning, and adaptation. These elements of the strategy reflect the same basic tenets that motivated the Simon-Skjodt Center to conduct the project, “Lessons Learned in Preventing and Responding to Mass Atrocities”—namely, that atrocity prevention efforts should be informed by what has been learned about how to accomplish this goal, and that continued learning is crucial to help address gaps in our current knowledge.
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New US Atrocity Prevention Strategy Signals Potential and Challenge
July 15, 2022
This new strategy marks the first time the US government has made public a written strategy concerning mass atrocities, signaling the potential for a stronger, more coordinated effort across the US government.
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Perpetrators in Power: Growing Mass Atrocity Risk in Post-coup Burma
January 28, 2022
One year after Burma’s military leaders seized power in a coup, the risk of further mass atrocities against the Rohingya and other ethnic and religious minorities across the country is growing.
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Women and Hazara in Afghanistan Face Heightened Risk of Mass Atrocities After Taliban Takeover
September 13, 2021
While the Taliban takeover threatens civilians across Afghanistan, the country’s women and girls and Hazara populations are at particular risk of mass atrocities. Even prior to the Taliban’s seizing control of the country, the Early Warning Project’s Statistical Risk Assessment ranked Afghanistan second in the world for the risk of a new onset of mass killing of civilians in 2020-21.
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Engaging Political & Diplomatic Actors to Advance Justice: Advice for Victim Groups
April 21, 2021
Legal expert Beth Van Schaack explains how our new Handbook can help victim groups who have experienced genocide and related mass atrocities engage members of the international community as allies in their quest for justice and accountability.
