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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.
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...
Peace Operations and Prevention for Sustaining Peace: The Restoration and Extension of State Authority
19 Mar 2017
As member states continue to discuss what sustaining peace means in practice, it is important to examine how peace operations can be designed and implemented to help build self-sustaining peace rather than just prevent relapse into conflict. In particular, as most current peace operations are...
Bangsamoro/Philippines: TJRC Reports Public Launch 2017
19 Mar 2017
The Normalization Annex of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB), signed on 25 January 2014, provides for the creation of the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC), an independent body mandated by the Peace Panels of the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the...
African Working Group
17 Mar 2017
The African Working Group (AWG), established at GAAMAC II, held its inaugural workshop on 17 – 18 January 2017 in Kampala, Uganda. The AWG's main objective is the drafting of a "Manual on Best Practices in Strengthening National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities."...
We Need More Multilateralism, Not Less: The Case for Prevention
16 Mar 2017
By United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
The Secretary-General has made his agenda clear: to make sure that prevention, enduring peace and human rights prevail, we need to address the root causes of conflict. And to do that, we need to reform the...
Relative Risks of State-Led Mass Killing Onset in 2017: Results from a Wiki Survey
9 Mar 2017
By Early Warning Project
For the fourth year in a row, the Early Warning Project ran a wiki survey in December to poll opinions on countries' relative risks of state-led mass killing onsets. The results are mapped. The darker the shade of gray, the greater the risk that a...
The Global Centre’s Statement on Revised “Muslim Ban"
6 Mar 2017
By Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Today US President Donald J. Trump issued a revised executive order restricting entry to the United States for people from six predominately Muslim countries. The new executive order also suspends the US Refugee Admissions...
ICG Watch List 2017
25 Feb 2017
International Crisis Group has released their Watch List 2017. It includes the Lake Chad basin, Libya, Myanmar, Nagorno-Karabakh, Sahel, Somalia, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela and Yemen. This annual early-warning report identifies conflict situations in which prompt action by the European Union and...
Assessing the Prospects for Transitional Justice in Georgia
24 Feb 2017
Towards the end of 2015, the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) was invited to Georgia to consider whether current conditions were conducive to a serious exploration of the past and the implementation of substantive transitional justice steps to reckon with its past conflicts...