Localizing genocide prevention and addressing the needs of high-risk societies

[Deeq A.]

In a recent exchange on Just Security, Youk Chhang responded to Douglas Irvin-Erickson and Ernesto Verdeja’s evaluation of the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Irvin-Erickson and Verdeja diagnosed the office’s limited outcomes on mass atrocity prevention as the result of a lack of resources and high-level political support and a muddled institutional mandate. Chhang, a major global human rights figure and respected expert on post-genocide recovery and genocide prevention, responded by arguing that any global strategy, no matter how well-imagined, cannot succeed without grounding it in local communities to ensure impact, equity, and long-term sustainability.

Source: Hiiraan Online