United States Institute of Peace's online Global Campus, established in 2014, is a direct response to the many challenges of peacebuilding in the 21st century—from violent extremism to natural resource challenges. Global Campus courses are accessible anywhere in the world at any time, in a...

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[New York, 16 June 2016] The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Mr. Adama Dieng, condemned the criminal attack that took place at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States, on 12 June, in which 49 people were killed and 53 injured. He offered his...

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The Human Rights Council released a report, A/HRC/32/CRP.2, on 15 June 2016, based on information collected by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, confirming that ISIS has committed the crime of genocide. Advance version is available...

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Could you describe main goals of your organization, MIGS? 

MIGS stands for the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. We are a university-based research and advocacy center at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. We are the only center in Canada...

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On 22-23 March 2016, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and USAID, assisted by the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect, convened a workshop entitled "The Role of Atrocity Prevention and Responsibility to Protect in Development Cooperation". The event,...

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The Online Genocide Prevention Certificate (GPC) is a new program developed by the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG) Program at Stockton University with the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR). GPC aims to meet the need for extended specialized training...

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The East African Community (EAC) and Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Prevention of Genocide and other Mass Atrocities in May 2016 to implement training programmes and advance collaboration on atrocity...

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A new report by ICRtoP, "Looking Back and Moving Forward: Civil Society Perspectives on the First Decade of the Responsibility to Protect", reviews the progress of the last ten years, identifies the challenges and priorities of the next ten years, and recommends ways to...

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The Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (APR2P) has released its second issue of assessing atrocity risks throughout the Asia Pacific region.

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(New York) Responding to the deadliest two weeks since the Cessation of Hostilities accord, which came into effect on 27 February 2016, the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, expressed his outrage at the ongoing indiscriminate and seemingly calculated attacks against...

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Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation launched the 2016 edition of its Booklet on National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Genocide and other Atrocity Crimes. This year’s publication will highlight the progress of existing national mechanisms featured in the 2015 edition (i.e. DRC,...

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The International Coalition on Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP) hosted an online discussion in May led by Akila Radhakrishnan, Legal Director of the Global Justice Center, examining the legal implications of acts of gender-based violence (sexual violence, abductions, slavery, forced...

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The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect has launched Atrocity Alert, a weekly publication highlighting and updating situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. The first issue was released on 20 April.

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Despite the commitment of world governments to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle in 2005 to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity (atrocity crimes), it has proven difficult to make the prevention of atrocity crimes a lived reality. It has been...

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The Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations, together with the Mission of Switzerland, hosted a debriefing on Friday, 15 April 2015 at UN Headquarters.  This meeting reported on the second international meeting (GAAMAC II) of the Global Action Against Mass...

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In this article, "Assessing the Risk of Atrocity Crimes," published in the Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, UN Special Advisers Adama Dieng and Jennifer Welsh elaborate on the methodology and application of the Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes, which has been...

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Genocide Prevention, Responsibility to Protect, Prevention of Atrocities: A Brief Overview "This brief overview maps the field, clarifies core concepts and provides key considerations on how to approach genocide prevention, the responsibility to protect and the prevention of atrocities...For...

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Among the three Pillars of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), agreed to by the world’s nations at the 2005 World Summit, what may be called "Pillar 3A" encompasses the diplomatic, humanitarian, and other peaceful means available to the international community to protect populations from...

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The Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) was established as part of the Normalization Annex of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB), as a result of protracted negotiations between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The TJRC...

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GAAMAC II Outcome Document 4 February 2016 Manila, Philippines

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