Genocide and other mass atrocities are always preceded by early warning signs. If these signs are detected and their causes addressed, it may be possible to prevent catastrophic loss of life. Our Early Warning Project Statistical Risk Assessment ranks countries by their likelihood of experiencing a new mass killing. Watch our launch event for 2021–22, during which experts discuss today’s highest-risk countries. Speakers include: Linda Etim, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Development, Global Health, and Humanitarian Response, National Security Council, Executive Office of the President Naomi Kikoler, Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Victoria Holt, Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College Dr. Mehari Taddele Maru, Part-time Professor, School of Transnational Governance and Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute Nicole Widdersheim, Senior Policy Advisor, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Lawrence Woocher, Research Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, US Holocaust Memorial Museum

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