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How to Use The Early Warning Project's Statistical Risk Assessment
Last month, we shared the results of our Early Warning Project’s latest Statistical Risk Assessment (SRA)—a list of 163 countries ranked by their risk for onset of state-led mass killing. As we’ve taken our results on the road, we’ve found that we are commonly asked some variation of this question: This is all very interesting, but what am I supposed to do with it?ewp@ushmm.org
Ferencz International Justice Initiative Hosts Screening of Syria’s Disappeared
Syrian survivors joined the filmmaker and an international justice expert to discuss options for justice and accountability for mass atrocities in Syria.
Museum Launches Ferencz International Justice Initiative to Promote Accountability
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.
Civil Society Meets in Berlin to Discuss the Future of Atrocity Prevention
Transatlantic civil society organizations meet to discuss their role in ensuring their governments continue to prioritize atrocity prevention.
Working with Allies to Halt Atrocities
A recent report from the Simon-Skjodt Center examines international capabilities to prevent mass killings, and makes recommendations for the US and its allies.
Early Warning Project Forecasts Countries at Highest Risk of Committing New Mass Killing
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.
Help Us Forecast Mass Killing
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.
State of the World: Mass Killing in 2016
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.
ISA Convention Reveals Gap Between Research and Policy Communities for Atrocity Prevention
Sessions spanned an array of topics including peacebuilding, transitional justice, civil wars, computational methods, non-state actors, and human rights.