Forty years of data suggests atrocities are on the rise globally.
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Six scholars with experience in 15 countries provide lessons on best practices for documenting atrocities and elevating the voices of victims and survivors.
US officials have used a number of rhetorical strategies – ways of talking about something – to distance the country from, and avoid responsibility for, atrocities committed by those it supports.
While overall atrocities declined last year, they came down from one of the worst years on record. Meanwhile, a number of areas actually got worse in 2024.
Wars always include killings and destruction, but there are limits. An expert in international law explains the rules of war laid out in the Geneva Conventions − and why they’re so hard to enforce.
The spectacle of two UN Security Council members — China and Russia — allegedly perpetrating mass atrocity crimes is deeply troubling. Here’s how the international community must step up.
College students learn about people who have dedicated their professional lives to reducing the threat of violence – and their successes and failures.
Many genocide classes review the Holocaust or Cambodia’s Killing Fields. A scholar wanted to show that genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing still happen today.
The war’s one-year anniversary is eerily close to that of an EU report on the prevention of mass atrocities. Ten years later, its authors reflect on what the bloc could have done differently.
President Biden said that Vladimir Putin had committed war crimes, after news emerged of mass civilian murders in Bucha, Ukraine. Three stories from our archive explain what this means.
Detailed accounts from original documents offer insights into the secret operations of the CIA in Africa.
Despite the recognition of risk, it’s clear that the scope and severity of the Ethiopian crisis has caught many by surprise.
Despite the government agreeing in principle to the royal commission’s recommendations, nothing is set in stone — including findings of fact.
The Bolsonaro government cannot simply allow Brazil’s out-of-control coronavirus pandemic to decimate its Indigenous population, Brazil’s Supreme Court says.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer, UNSW
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Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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PhD student of law, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
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Executive Director, The Montréal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University
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Associate Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Southern Denmark
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Professor of European and International Politics, King's College London
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Adjunct Professor of Mass Atrocities Prevention, Georgetown University; University of Connecticut
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate professor of political science, University of Rhode Island