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As a service to the atrocity prevention community, GAAMAC posts news directly relevant to atrocity prevention. The opinions expressed in the news articles do not represent the views of GAAMAC, its Steering Group or any partner organization.
Human Protection: Strategic Opportunities in a Challenging Political Environment
7 Jul 2017
There is unprecedented recognition that effective collective action can help prevent, slow, or stop mass violence and atrocities. At the same time, however, outbreaks of mass violence and atrocities in places like Syria have shown that preventing such incidents remains a major global...
The Place of Reconciliation in Transitional Justice
30 Jun 2017
Reconciliation is a complex set of processes that involve building or rebuilding relationships, often in the aftermath of massive and widespread human rights violations. It can occur at the individual, interpersonal, socio-political, and institutional levels and be described as “thin” if it is...
Getting Down to Business: Uncovering the Roles Played by Enterprises in Enabling and Preventing Atrocity Crimes
29 Jun 2017
On the evening of Wednesday, June 28, 2017, the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR) launched its most recent addition of the Sheri P. Rosenberg Policy Papers in Prevention series. The second entry in the series, entitled “Getting Down to Business: Uncovering the...
Joint UNDP-DPA Programme on Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention
23 Jun 2017
Conflict prevention begins at home. This adaptation of the old proverb could serve as a motto for the Joint UN Development Programme (UNDP)-Department of Political Affairs (DPA) Programme on Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention, which held its first-ever...
How Development Can Promote Accountability, Tackle Impunity, and Sustain Peace
21 Jun 2017
“Gone are the days when people believe in wiping the slate clean and starting anew,” Adama Dieng, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, said, addressing a June 12, 2017 International Peace Institute (IPI) policy forum on “How...
Not Without Dignity: Views of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon on Displacement, Conditions of Return, and Coexistence
12 Jun 2017
Armed conflict in Syria has displaced millions of people inside and outside of the country. When a political settlement to the conflict is eventually reached, the process of refugees returning to Syria and rebuilding their lives, relationships, and communities will be long and complex....
Governing Safer Cities: Strategies for a Globalised World
9 May 2017
Many cities across the globe are being undermined by chronic insecurity and violence, which are often connected to crime challenges originating beyond their municipal borders. Analyses across ten cities, undertaken for the purposes of developing this framework, identified several key illicit...
South Sudan Research Repository, making international assistance more conflict sensitive
8 May 2017
The Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility (CSRF) is a new initiative providing donors and implementing partners working in South Sudan access to research, analysis, training, and technical support with the aim of making international assistance more conflict sensitive.
Conflict...
Research in Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust: A Dialogue Beyond Borders
7 May 2017
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance is pleased to announce the third volume in its publication series: "Research in Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust: A Dialogue Beyond Borders".
How is the Holocaust taught in schools? How do students make sense of...
New Media Course: Tools & Techniques for Risk Assessment and Crisis Management
5 May 2017
Next edition: 21 – 25 August 2017 in Stans in Switzerland
The challenge
is given the rapidly increasing deluge of information from multiple sources and in real time, finding actionable, verified intelligence contributing to...
Instruments of Pain: Conflict and Famine
27 Apr 2017
The spectre of famine is primarily the result of war, not natural disaster. According to the UN, more than twenty million people, millions of them children, are at risk of starvation. This is happening in man-made crises and under the Security Council’s watch. In some places, the denial of...
Annual Report 2016 by the Latin American Network for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
26 Apr 2017
2016 Results of the Early Warning Project
19 Apr 2017
After a decade of decline, civilian mass killings at the hands of government forces are once again on the rise. Sudan, Yemen, Burma, Nigeria, and Afghanistan are the five governments most likely to commit mass killing against their own people, according to a new assessment from the Early...
Independent Commission Multilateralism Policy Paper
19 Apr 2017
By Independent Commission on Multilateralism
Over the past few years, the world has been confronted with a series of crises that have challenged perceptions of global stability. Whether a moment of high-risk or great opportunity, this is without a doubt a moment of growing...
Burundi: The Army in Crisis
17 Apr 2017
By International Crisis Group
Two years in, the Burundi crisis shows little sign of resolution. Following the July 2015 re-election of President Nkurunziza, whose April decision to run again sparked the troubles, and with no progress made in the mediation, the crisis has...
The world reacts to chemical attack in Syria as civilians continue to suffer
14 Apr 2017
On 4 April, a chemical gas attack in Khan Shaykhun, a town in Syria’s Idlib Governorate, killed more than 80 civilians. Shortly thereafter, images of victims showing symptoms associated with exposure to nerve gas, namely suffocation, foaming at the mouth, convulsions, constricted pupils, and...
How can ‘dealing with the past’ contribute to preventing the recurrence of atrocities: What can and should we do?
4 Apr 2017
Our new GAAMAC partner, the Liberation War Museum in Bangladesh, has organized its 5th International Conference on ‘Bangladesh Genocide and Justice’ on 19-21 May 2017.
GAAMAC was part of that meeting, participating in a roundtable on 21 May entitled “How can dealing with...
Archives against Genocide Denialism? Challenges to the Use of Archives in Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation
28 Mar 2017
Considering the value of archives for dealing with the past processes, especially for the establishment of collective memory and identity, this paper, "Archives against Genocide Denialism?",...
In South Sudan’s Relentless War Zone, Radio Can Save Lives
24 Mar 2017
Public radio in a camp for people who have fled violence in South Sudan’s war offers news as basic as food-distribution schedules but also fictional dramas. Here, a radio station in Juba, the capital, countering hate speech based on ethnicity.
Jess Engrebretson, a humanitarian aid...
Questions about Jurisdiction
22 Mar 2017
Who should try cases of genocide, mass atrocities and war crimes committed in Iraq by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS and Daesh)? It is a complicated question that doesn't have a simple answer.
When it comes to prosecuting Islamic State fighters and terrorists for crimes and...