In 2009, OSAPG designed and has been implementing a series of specialized seminars on genocide prevention and has actively participated in training activities for UN staff, government officials, non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations.
OSAPG, in collaboration with the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP) and the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (APC-R2P) is organizing a one-day seminar “A Framework on Early Warning for the Prevention of Mass Atrocity Crimes” which will bring together government policymakers, NGOs and civil society representatives from Asia on 5th November 2010 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
The objectives of the seminar are:
The seminar employs interactive learning modalities, including lectures and group discussions.
The seminar would cover the function and methodology of the UN early-warning system and existing regional systems on mass atrocities; a socio-historical approach to understanding the process of mass violence; the legal framework and socio-political science approach to preventing and responding to the possibility of genocide and mass atrocity crimes anywhere in the world.
The draft program, session outline and objectives are attached. Interested participants should complete the questionnaire attached to the promotional flyer and return to Norul Mohamed Rashid, Office of the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide,
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, no later than 30 September 2010.
You can learn more about the work of OSAPG at http://www.un.org/preventgenocide /adviser.
