Advancing Transatlantic Linkages on Responsibility to Protect and Mass Atrocity Prevention

The international community is in urgent need of successful, cooperative strategies for preventing and stopping mass atrocities. As recent crises have highlighted, effective international cooperation to save lives and preserve peace and security remains aspirational at best. The right starting point for the cooperation is between like-minded, politically influential, and militarily capable allies and partners, starting with the longtime transatlantic partners of the United States and others who have a record of supporting common security objectives. Those who share the view that preventing atrocities is “a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility” must assess their individual national efforts and coordinate their activities.

In an effort to move toward that objective, Tod Lindberg, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and Lee Feinstein, former US ambassador to Poland; in collaboration with the Center for the Prevention of Genocide of the Holocaust Museum, will coordinate a project designed to evaluate and assess the capabilities and gaps of key national and institutional actors on the issue of international action to prevent and halt mass atrocities.

On February 16, 2015, and in collaboration with Chatham House in London, the Stanley Center will support the second in a series of European capital meetings scheduled for London, Brussels, and Berlin, with Paris already completed in 2014.