Although the Special Adviser recognizes a collective failure to protect populations in numerous cases, Ms. Mô Bleeker also notes progress in implementing the R2P principles. Among other platforms, initiatives and international mechanisms, she highlights GAAMAC as a key initiative promoting the development of national prevention strategies and emphasizes the significant role of the GAAMAC Regional Initiatives in shaping these strategies.
The Special Adviser underscores GAAMAC’s work in the coordination among prevention actors and its inclusive and horizontal nature. GAAMAC brings together 47 community members, including informal alliances with IHRA, ODIHR, and UNESCO, along with Steering Group members and partners from states, civil society, and academic organizations across four continents.
GAAMAC seeks to make the prevention of mass atrocities a reality on the ground encouraging States to develop tailored and permanent national prevention mechanisms through dialogue, exchange of good practices and trainings. The recognition in the R2P report reflects GAAMAC’s efforts towards a continued and upstream atrocity prevention.
