In 2005, the United States and all other member states of the United Nations agreed that nations share a responsibility to protect their citizens from genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
The international community’s record in upholding this responsibility is mixed. In light of new research by the Working Group on the Responsibility to Protect—a joint project of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the US Institute of Peace, and the Brookings Institution—we present, with 92nd Street Y, a program asking what steps are necessary to realize the vision of “never again.”
PANELISTS
The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright
Former US Secretary of State
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group Co-Chair, Working Group on the Responsibility to Protect
Nicholas Kristof
New York Times Columnist
Ambassador Richard Williamson
Former US Special Envoy to Sudan
Non-resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Co-Chair, Working Group on the Responsibility to Protect
MODERATOR
Michael Abramowitz
Director Genocide Prevention Program, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
PHOTO CREDITS:
Madeleine K. Albright, Portrait by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; Richard Williamson, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
This event is co-presented by the Working Group on the Responsibility to Protect, a joint project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, organized by the US Institute of Peace and the Brookings Institution and co-chaired by Secretary Madeleine K. Albright and Ambassador Richard Williamson.
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