• The Responsibility Not to Veto: A Way Forward, 2010. 
  Read the latest report from Citizens for Global Solutions, which proposes that the permanent five members of the UN Security Council (P5) should agree not to use their veto power to block action in response togenocide and mass atrocities which wouldotherwise pass by a majority.

• Preventing Mass Atrocities: An Agenda for Policymakers and Citizens:
  This report is a product of the Prevention and Protection Working Group, based in Washington, DC. Participants in the group include: the Alliance for Peacebuilding, American Friends Service Committee, Better World Campaign, Campaign for the Innocent Victims of Conflict, Caring for Kaela, Citizens for Global Solutions, Enough Project, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Genocide Intervention Network, Humanity United, Human Rights First, Mennonite Central Committee Washington, Oxfam America, Refugees International, Save Darfur, 3D Security Initiative, and others. The recommendations outlined in the document are not necessarily endorsed by all Working Group participants.
   
• Genocide Prevention Partners call, Citizens for Global Solutions, 2010
  Read here about the latest Citizens for Global Solutions partners call which focused on the prevention of genocide. Bridget Moix, is lead lobbyist of the Peaceful Prevention of Deadly Conflict program at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). Nicole Deller also spoke. Ms. Deller is the Director of Programs for the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
   
•  The United Nations: Confronting Genocide, Citizens for Global Solutions' Annual Meeting, 2010
  Join us as activists, scholars and Citizens for Global Solutions members from across the country will be convening in Washington, D.C. at the Citizens for Global Solutions Annual Meeting to participate in a ground-breaking Model United Nations simulation while also lobbying members of Congress and hearing from experts in the field.

"How Genocide Became a National Security Threat" By: Lawrence Woocher and Michael Abramowitz

On February 2, 2010, in his annual address to Congress, Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair brought up genocide as a national security threaty. The article by Woocher and Abramowitz goes on to examine the implications of genocide, anywhere in the world, on the United States.

April is Genocide Awareness Month Throughout the twentieth century, the month of April was punctuated by acts of genocide. Key parts of the major genocides of the century all occurred in April. This website provides information on how to get involved  in genocide prevention efforts 

• Genocide Prevention Task Force Report, the United States Institute for Peace and the Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2008
  This Task Force, convened by the United States Institute for Peace and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, intended to spotlight genocide as a U.S. national security priority and make practical policy recommendations to prevent and halt genocide in its tracks. The Task Force was convened by Former Secretaries Madeleine Albright and William S. Cohen.
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• A More Secure World:Our Shared Responsibility, United Nations, 2004
  Report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, which was issued by Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2004. The report discusses the importance of genocide prevention, as well as prevention of other dangers. The report also touches on making the United Nations more effective in prevention efforts.
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• In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All, United Nations, 2005
  This report, issued by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2005, discusses the opportunities that lay ahead in the new millennium as well as the challenges that wait to be confronted. Within the report one can find ways forward on development, human rights, the prevention of deadly pandemics and the prevention of genocide.
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• Francis Deng, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the Prevention of Genocide
  Francis Deng, who serves as the Special Adviser on the prevention of genocide has a mandate to to raise awareness of the causes and dynamics of genocide, to alert relevant actors where there is a risk of genocide and to advocate and mobilize for appropriate action. By clicking the link, you'll find out more about the duties and responsibilities of his charge.
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• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, United Nations, 1948
  This historic treaty, one of the first of its kind, entered into force in January of 1951. As of now there are 140 contracting parties. The Treaty defines genocide and the crimes that can be punished under the convention. The United States has signed and ratified the treaty.
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• MARO: Mass Atrocitites Response Operations, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard  Kennedy School of Government, U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, 2008 This report was a collaborative effort between The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and The U. S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. The report details "military planning tools for an effective response to genocide and mass atrocity when directed by national leadership." In addition to diplomatic, informational, and economic responses, the report states that it is important to be prepared with potential military responses.