U.S. Leadership in Atrocity Prevention

USIP, the Simon Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the U.S. State Department hosted a discussion of the newly released U.S. Strategy to Anticipate, Prevent and Respond to Atrocities — as well as a look at the work the Atrocity Prevention Task Force has done over the past year as documented through its 2022 report to Congress as part of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act.

Speakers

Welcoming Remarks

• Lise Grande
  President and CEO, U.S. Institute of Peace
• Naomi Kikoler
  Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Theodora Klayman 
  Holocaust Survivor
• Merrick B. Garland
  Attorney General of the United States of America

Panel 1: Institutionalizing Atrocity Prevention 

• Nidhi Bouri
  Acting Senior Director, Development, Global Health and Humanitarian Response, U.S. National Security Council
• Robert J. Faucher
  Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, U.S. Department of State
• Robert Jenkins
  Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization, USAID
• Michelle Strucke 
  Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Partnerships, U.S. Department of Defense
• Ambassador Beth Van Schaack
  Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, U.S. Department of State
• Naomi Kikoler, moderator
  Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum   

Panel 2: Operationalizing Atrocity Prevention

• Toby Bradley
  Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State
• Scott Busby
  Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State
• Katrina Fotovat
  Senior Official, Office of Global Women’s Issues, U.S. Department of State 
• Allison Lombardo 
  Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State
• Rosarie Tucci
  Director, Center for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance, U.S. Agency for International Development
• David W. Yang, moderator 
  Vice President, Center of Thematic Excellence and Gandhi-King Global Academy, U.S. Institute of Peace

Closing Remarks

• Robert Silvers
  Undersecretary, Office of Strategy, Policy and Plans, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• David W. Yang
  Vice President, Center of Thematic Excellence and Gandhi-King Global Academy, U.S. Institute of Peace