Holocaust Museum Welcomes Presidential Action on Genocide

On August 4, 2011, the White House announced the Presidential Directive on Mass Atrocities which established a standing interagency Atrocities Prevention Board.

Such a presidential statement and a new interagency process for preventing mass atrocities were key recommendations of the 2008 Genocide Prevention Task Force (GPTF) co-chaired by Madeleine Albright and William Cohen, and convened by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the U.S. Institute of Peace and The American Academy of Diplomacy.

Other recommendations of the Task Force, a nonpartisan group of policy experts and former government officials, that have been adopted include the creation of a high-level position in the White House on mass atrocities, greater planning for mass atrocities at the Pentagon and State Departments and increased focus on threats of genocide in the intelligence communities.

Learn more about the Genocide Prevention Task Force and its report, "Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers" at http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/taskforce/.

View the Presidential Directive at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/04/presidential-study-dire...

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[armorsmith43]

I'm a lover of peace and all, but how would this have helped in Europe in the 1940s? How would it have helped in Rwanda? Cambodia? Sudan?

Evil does not happen just because good men do nothing. First, men must have the will to commit evil. If a man is willing to wield a sword against an infant, no negro spiritual nor hunger strike can stop him. The only recourse is the fire of war, which nearly always burns outside its hearth.

Sadly, only Athena's bloody shield provides succor.