Preventing Genocide
Genocide and mass atrocities can be prevented by promoting the acceptance of states' sovereign responsibilities to ensure basic human protection, improving international efforts to help states meet those responsibilities, and ensuring effective multilateral response when states prove unwilling to honor them. The Stanley Foundation is advancing this goal by supporting full implementation of the Responsibility to Protect—particularly as a preventive framework. We seek to identify coherent, strategic approaches to pre-crisis atrocity prevention, develop tools for international support and capacity building, and promote greater international coordination in mobilizing mechanisms for post-conflict peacebuilding, genocide prevention, and response. Contact Rachel Gerber (rgerber@stanleyfoundation.org) for more information.

Fragile States
The world's weakest and most fragile states pose shared global security challenges such as mass atrocity, genocide, terrorism, and transnational crime. With nearly 60 nations already severely underdeveloped and in danger of outright failure, there are many shared threats to global security. An international community response to state fragility and its symptoms is often necessary. Contact Keith Porter for more information.

Fragile States, Global Consequences is a new Now Showing event-in-a-box toolkit featuring a DVD that helps viewers examine the global challenge of fragile states. It aims to encourage discussion of the growing movement in the international community to find comprehensive ways to promote stronger nations and more effective ways to deal with those that are already on the brink of failure. Sign up today to receive your free toolkit.