The Rohingya are a Muslim minority group in Burma who have faced a long history of severe discrimination and persecution, including the denial of citizenship and repeated violence at the hands of Burmese authorities. On December 3, 2018, the Museum announced it has found compelling evidence that Burma’s military perpetrated genocide against the Rohingya.
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, and Egypt top the list of countries at risk for new mass killing in 2018 or 2019, according to the Early Warning Project’s annual rankings released last week.
On October 2, 2018, the Museum’s Ferencz International Justice Initiative hosted a special screening of director Barry Avrich’s new documentary film Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz.
This fall, the Simon-Skjodt Center will release the Early Warning Project’s Statistical Risk Assessment for 2018-2019, which ranks countries based on their risk for new episodes of mass killing. Using state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative methods and a wide range of publicly available data, the Early Warning Project is a first-of-its-kind public early warning system for mass atrocities. The project aims to provide governments, civil society groups, and other influential actors with early and reliable warnings of mass atrocities and, as a result, greater opportunities to take preventive action
From July 24-26, the US Department of State hosted the first-ever Ministerial to Advance International Religious Freedom. The Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide participated in a panel discussion and the Museum hosted opening and closing events. This post explores the nexus between international religious freedom and atrocity prevention.
The Early Warning Project uses patterns from past instances of mass killing to forecast where new mass killing episodes are most likely to happen in the future. Each year we update our list of countries experiencing state- and nonstate-led mass killing. The following report compiles our determinations for onsets of mass killing in 2017 and those episodes that we can now judge have ended.
Holocaust survivor and Museum volunteer Irene Weiss delivered remarks at a Museum event that was part of the US Department of State’s Ministerial on International Religious Freedom.
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.
South Sudan is the country most likely to see an onset of mass killing in 2018, according to participants in the Early Warning Project’s most recent public wiki survey.
Six months ago the Simon-Skjodt Center published a report on risk for mass killing in Bangladesh, focusing on scenarios related to the elections later this year. The assessment’s conclusions stand today.
Find information on historical cases of genocide and other atrocities.
