Museum leadership and the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court joined renowned international justice leader Ben Ferencz to launch the Museum’s Ferencz International Justice Initiative.
Transatlantic civil society organizations meet to discuss their role in ensuring their governments continue to prioritize atrocity prevention.
A recent report from the Simon-Skjodt Center examines international capabilities to prevent mass killings, and makes recommendations for the US and its allies.
For the third year in a row, Sudan and Burma rank among the three countries at greatest risk of experiencing a new episode of state-led mass killing, according to the Early Warning Project’s annual rankings released today.
The Early Warning Project invites all followers of the Simon-Skjodt Center’s work to participate in our public opinion pool to forecast mass killing. The pool is hosted by Good Judgment Inc, and this “wisdom of the crowds” approach enables us to provide real-time assessments of the risk of mass killing in various countries to complement our annual Statistical Risk Assessment.
The Early Warning Project uses patterns from past instances of mass killing to forecast when new mass killing episodes might happen in the future. At the end of each year we update a list of countries experiencing state- and nonstate-led mass killing. The following report compiles our determinations for onsets of mass killing in 2016 and those cases that we can now judge have ended.
Sessions spanned an array of topics including peacebuilding, transitional justice, civil wars, computational methods, non-state actors, and human rights.
Andrea Gittleman, Program Manager for the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, testifies before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on the human rights and humanitarian situation of the Rohingya people in Rakhine State in Burma, and along the Bangladesh border.
The Early Warning Project has announced a new research fellowship focused on increasing knowledge of early warning for mass atrocities in Mali.
Holocaust survivor and Museum volunteer Alfred Münzer calls for the protection of Syrian civilians to be front and center of US foreign policy and the world’s attention.
Find information on historical cases of genocide and other atrocities.