For more than two decades, the world has been mired in a perpetual state of war. Despite US President Joe Biden’s declaration before the United Nations in 2021 that the United States was ‘no longer at war’ following its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the United States and its allies continue to...

GAAMAC’s partner the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) will host the fourth Digital Peace Project roundtable with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage. The discussion will focus on the themes behind online hate and incitement to violence on the basis of religious belief and...

Conflict traumatizes societies in multiple ways. Most concretely, it damages infrastructure, obliterating houses, schools, and cultural sites. It also destroys the social fabric by poisoning feelings of trust and commonality among community members. An equally common, but often overlooked result of conflict is the devastating and long-lasting effect it has...

The February 2021 coup in Myanmar undid a decade of reforms, triggered a deep economic crisis, and put the country on a path of protracted state failure. Violent conflict has surged. Although the military currently appears unlikely to collapse or be toppled, its grip on power is at its most...

In 2021, GAAMAC’s Africa Working Group published a Training Toolkit to establish and manage national atrocity prevention mechanisms. Franck Okyere, Head of the Peace Support Operations programme at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre and lead researcher of the toolkit, will be presenting it in this event co-organized by...

The European Remembrance Symposium, organized by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity and the European Observatory on Memories, will take place at the University of Barcelona (Spain). More details will follow.

The Flemish Peace Institute will be hosting an international conference, in cooperation with Tampere Peace Research Institute, Post-Conflict Research Center Sarajevo, Peace Research Center Prague and Peace Research Institute Oslo. The conference will take place at the Flemish Parliament in Brussels and will be conducted entirely in English. Participation in...

Save the date! On 3-5 May 2023, the Alliance for Peacebuilding, in partnership with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), will hold its 11th annual conference, PeaceCon 2023: Beyond Fragile Ground: New Peacebuilding Architectures for Today and the Future. Proposals submissions are now closed. In-person and online attendance tickets...

In 2021, GAAMAC’s Asia Pacific Working Group published the report Preventing Hate Speech, Incitement and Discrimination: Lessons on Promoting Tolerance and Respect for Diversity in the Asia Pacific. Through the study of six countries (Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Pakistan), the report frames the issue of hate speech...

On 18 November 2022, the U.N. General Assembly’s Sixth Committee adopted a draft resolution on the ILC’s 2019 Draft Articles on Crimes Against Humanity. Co-sponsored by 86 States, the resolution establishes a two-year time frame for the exchange of ‘substantive views’ on ‘all aspects’ of the draft articles, including two...

A two-days discussion of how the ground-breaking International Criminal Court’s Appeals Chamber ruling in Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen impacts intersectional feminist approaches to norm-setting and redressing sexual and gender-based crimes in international law. These discussions will center Ugandan-driven policy, legal, and advocacy work while uplifting the expertise gained through lived experiences....

Since 2017, Frontiers of Prevention, I-GMAP’s annual international meeting, has brought academic researchers and prevention practitioners from governments, international organizations, and civil society to Binghamton’s Downtown Campus for two days of conversation, sharing notes and experiences, and forming new professional connections and networks. Unlike more familiar academic conferences, Frontiers of...

The Syrian Legal Development Programme (SLDP) and other Syrian NGOs will mark the anniversaries of  the Douma and Khanshaykhun chemical attacks of 2017 with a live webinar. More details on speakers will be shared soon.

The third installment of MIGS’ Digital Peace Project roundtable series will focus on the unique themes behind online hate against Indigenous Peoples and some recommendations to address these issues for civil society, government, and platforms. The Digital Peace Project seeks to contribute to national efforts to mitigate online hate while...

The Centre for Grand Strategy in partnership with Protection Approaches and The White Helmets will convene a panel discussion between leading experts on the strategic imperative for mass atrocity prevention, from Syria to Ukraine. The panel, chaired by Dan Sabbagh, Defence and Security Editor for the Guardian, will include Beth van Schaack, United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal...