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Urgent Action Needed to Prevent Further Mass Atrocities in Ethiopia
November 19, 2020
Ethiopian civilians are at risk in the country's two-week-old conflict, where government and TPLF forces have already killed hundreds.
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Civilians at Risk in Cameroon
June 10, 2020
When English-speaking civilians in Cameroon began protesting discriminatory government policies in 2016, government security forces cracked down violently. With more than 3,000 Cameroonians killed and 700,000 displaced since the beginning of the crisis, the violence shows no signs of abating, and the global coronavirus pandemic further complicates life in the Anglophone regions of the country.
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Leonard and Sophie Davis Genocide Prevention Fellowship
March 3, 2020
The Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide seeks a fellow to contribute to its research project on “Lessons-Learned in Preventing and Responding to Mass Atrocities,” made possible by a grant from The Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund.
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Graduate Research Assistance (Remote) on Lessons Learned in Preventing and Responding to Atrocities
March 3, 2020
The Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide seeks one or more graduate student research assistants to contribute to its project on lessons learned in preventing and responding to mass atrocities.
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Research Fellowship on External Support to Civilian-led Atrocity Prevention and Mitigation
January 14, 2019
The Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide seeks a fellow to contribute to its research project on the role of civilians in preventing and mitigating mass atrocities.
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Visiting Fellow’s Report Analyzes Atrocity Prevention and US Policy Toward South Sudan
July 9, 2018
In a new report, From Independence to Civil War: Atrocity Prevention and US Policy Toward South Sudan, Jon Temin, a Visiting Fellow at the Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center, explores how the US might have been more effective in helping prevent or mitigate the civil war and atrocities against civilians.
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Central African Republic Again at Risk for Mass Atrocities
October 16, 2017
In recent months, international officials and humanitarian groups have begun to sound the alarm about resurgent violence and the risk of further mass atrocities in the Central African Republic.
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Civil Society Meets in Berlin to Discuss the Future of Atrocity Prevention
April 13, 2017
Transatlantic civil society organizations meet to discuss their role in ensuring their governments continue to prioritize atrocity prevention.
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Working with Allies to Halt Atrocities
April 13, 2017
A recent report from the Simon-Skjodt Center examines international capabilities to prevent mass killings, and makes recommendations for the US and its allies.
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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.
