atrocity prevention/atrocities prevention

Bridging responsible social media with the expertise of those well-versed in the dynamics of mass violence can greatly bolster interventions.

Atrocity-prevention systems developed before the spread of new technologies need to more systematically account for their impacts.

Governments and civil society can harness new and established technologies, even while proactively mitigating associated risks.

A Dutch court recently convicted a man of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Syrian civil war.

As government forces battle armed groups in Burkina Faso, civilians face daily abuses, even death, amid a range of violations of their security and their property. At least 6,201…

States must invest in “alternative” sites for atrocity prevention because “primary” sites such as the Security Council are foreclosed.

The international community failed 20 years ago to stop mass atrocities and genocide in Darfur, and is now failing again.

To reinvigorate US leadership, consider why US action on the 2008 Albright-Cohen blueprint has not translated into more success.

States and international organizations must make the Responsibility to Protect a priority and integrate it into wider policy and programming.

Prevention and the responsibility to protect are subordinated to other UN agendas, and special advisers too often sidelined.

This arc reveals both the African Union’s strengths and weaknesses in stopping atrocity crimes, and what it might yet accomplish.

Reinvigorating the atrocity prevention agenda requires focusing on accountability.