Prof. Hanna-El-Daher in Brussels at Workshop on Prevention of Genocide

On May 12-13, AGS faculty member Ambassador Samira Hanna-El-Daher participated in a workshop entitled "Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities" which took place in Brussels, at the Hungarian Permanent Representation to the European Union. The event was organized by the Madariaga-College of Europe Foundation and the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA), with the support of the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union and in close cooperation with the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office and the European External Action Service.

Representatives of International Organizations, European institutions, and NGOs active in the field gathered with conflict prevention experts and university professors to exchange experiences and discuss possible strategies for genocide prediction and prevention, conflict management, and peacebuilding. Discussions stressed the necessity to develop international cooperation and partnerships to better enforce the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the "Responsibility to Protect" norm set out during the 2005 UN Summit. "The workshop combined the long term ambition to prevent and stop massacres with a more short term and very realistic approach about how to minimize the atrocities during existing conflicts." says Ambassador Hanna-El-Daher.

See organizers' concept note

See list of participants