We also included participants from European countries with large and growing populations of non-European migrant backgrounds in which there have been problems of intolerance.
Participants provided a statement of intent illustrating the sort of strategy for institutional development that they intended to work on through their participation. These plans have been linked to considerations of longer term strategies to counter extremism and decrease the likelihood of violence. Peer advisory visits to participating countries in the year following this meeting will connect educators, activists, and others dedicated to preventing mass atrocities and genocide to advance knowledge exchange, test institutional development plans, and design long-term institutional strategies to combat extremism and its consequences.
For more detailed information, please contact the Program Director, Charles Ehrlich cehrlich salzburgglobal. View full set on Flickr. They want to know and understand. MIGS is a Concordia-based think tank with members from both the university and the community. Since , he has taught more than 2, students about the Holocaust. MIGS conducts research about conditions that lead to genocide and crimes against humanity and advocates to prevent future mass atrocities.
The institute also trains government and United Nations officials about the prevention of mass atrocities and organizes conferences and workshops, such as a recent panel discussion about anti-Semitism online. Though MIGS works to draw attention to and fight every form of genocide, the memory of the Holocaust guides the institute.
Like other members of the think tank, Matthews is alarmed by the rise of anti-Semitism, pointing not only to recent events in Europe, but also to the attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue. Matthews believes Canadian children need to learn not only about the Holocaust and genocide, but also about the consequences of discrimination. Sometimes, Matthews says, he needs a break from following world news.
Hope is all we have. The foundation publishes a series of memoirs of Holocaust survivors, first-hand testimony that has become an important primary resource for Holocaust researchers. Housed in the Samuel Bronfman Building, the Azrieli Institute also operates a reading room that includes the 81 memoirs published to date in the Azrieli series.
The institute also organizes special events such as the presentation, co-sponsored by the Azrieli Foundation and MIGS, by Francesco Lotoro, an Italian professor and concert pianist who reconstructed music written by prisoners in the concentration camps.
Growing up in communist Hungary, Nikolenyi knew little about the Holocaust. Nikolenyi believes Holocaust education must include the study of Israel. However, the link between warning and response too often has been missing. It came after a remarkable civil society coalition across the globe came together to press for its approval.
It aimed at assuring that national sovereignty could never again justify ignoring when governments failed to act, were unable to act, or were complicit in the face of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The Responsibility to Protect has three foundational pillars :. The Responsibility to Protect doctrine has been cited multiple times by the Security Council when there was a consensus for collective military and noncoercive action to halt ethnic or other atrocities.
And there have been some successes. But where other competing interests intervened, as in Syria, Yemen, or South Sudan, the responses have fallen short and the list of victims continues to grow.
And too often when there has been intervention, the responsibility to rebuild after the intervention—as in Libya—has been absent or inadequate. In this environment, there is an urgent need to rethink and revitalize the Responsibility to Protect doctrine to deal with a wide range of threats from state and nonstate actors.
Mark L. His career spans government, international organizations, civil society, and academia, and his areas of expertise include post-conflict reconstruction and nation building, U. Commentary is produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS , a private, tax-exempt institution focusing on international public policy issues. Its research is nonpartisan and nonproprietary.
With this knowledge, the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide works to do for the victims of genocide today what the world failed to do for the Jews of Europe in the s and s. About our Work. Find information on historical cases of genocide and other atrocities, places where mass atrocities are currently underway or populations are under threat, and areas where early warning signs call for concern and preventative action.
A partnership with Dartmouth College, this project uses state-of-the-art research methods to identify countries at risk for mass atrocities. Through coalition-building, education, research, and outreach, the Ferencz Initiative equips and empowers survivors of atrocities to seek redress and to hold perpetrators to account.
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