Field Guide: Helping Prevent Mass Atrocities
Source: USAID | Year: 2015
This field guide is designed to provide USAID field staff with practical guidance on a range of issues related to preventing and responding to mass atrocities.
Mass atrocities: Key concepts
Mass atrocities are large-scale and deliberate attacks on civilians.
Mass atrocities vary in context, perpetrators, targeted groups, means, and motives.
Mass atrocities and armed conflict are overlapping but distinct. Actions to prevent the outbreak of armed conflict should be a major part of an atrocity prevention strategy.
U.S. government policy and USAID’s role in preventing mass atrocities
Through a 2011 Presidential directive, the USG has made the prevention of mass atrocities and genocide a significant priority, declaring it “a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States.”
Mass atrocities are antithetical to development. Neglecting risks of atrocities imperils USAID’s investments across the range of development objectives.
Development assistance programs can help reduce risks of mass atrocities. Successful development—broadly conceived—helps inoculate countries against mass atrocities.
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