How can future genocides be prevented

Can we help? Signing petitions, sending letters, protests and awareness-building events exercise a concrete impact on governments and the media. Genocide prevention is an ongoing challenge. One of the greatest obstacles is the lack of political will of certain states to intervene in other countries. Read here about how technological tools can be used to predict--and prevent--genocide.

Bringing conflicting communities together, engaging in productive dialogue, and finding ways to address post-violence realities. Genocide Prevention Since genocide is not a sudden, unforeseen catastrophe but rather the result of a long-term and deliberate process, it can be stopped before killing begins.

Donate Now. While only military intervention will stop genocide once the extermination phase has begun, there are many more non-violent measures which can disrupt the genocidal process before it reaches that point.

The international community, in the form of national governments and organizations such as the United Nations, has the resources to implement preventive measures and intervene militarily. However, most governments and other organizations are reluctant to commit resources for civilian protection in countries where they have no national interests.

Dow Jones. By Tod Lindberg. To Read the Full Story. Subscribe Sign In. Continue reading your article with a WSJ membership. Unfortunately, economic inequalities are still very often one of the structural sources for conflict that leads to mass atrocity.

That is a very important part of the toolbox. Security sector reform, how to empower those who are supposed to protect to actually carry out their function. Strengthening local protection of disadvantaged groups and their members. Here again, we are looking at a wide range, going from legal ways of doing this to the actual application of the legal instruments we have.

Fostering inclusive governance, making sure that everybody has access to decision making and to the carrying out of those decisions, every sector of society.