The report on U.S. leadership on preventing mass atrocities details what should be done to strengthen existing atrocity prevention initiatives, develop new measures, and ensure that the issue is institutionalized within the national security bureaucracy.
As the United States confronts a host of complex global crises and with a new presidential administration as well as a new Congress set to take office in early 2017, it is an ideal moment to formulate a roadmap for the next four years. Mass atrocities and genocide in places like in Darfur, Syria, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Yemen, and elsewhere continue to challenge the world’s conscience. As the crisis in Syria so clearly demonstrates, mass atrocities have unanticipated over-the-horizon effects that have a profoundly negative impact on American interests, including “severe economic and resource disruptions, massive refugee flows, weakened national and international institutions, fractured international norms, and the rise of violent extremism.”
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