{"id":118982,"date":"2018-09-24T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=118982"},"modified":"2018-09-20T16:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:22:35","slug":"map-the-risk-of-genocide-around-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/09\/map-the-risk-of-genocide-around-the-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Map: The Risk of Genocide around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>21 Sep 2015 &#8211; <\/em>Communities living in the countries in darker colors in the map are at greater risk of state-led mass violence, according to a think tank\u00a0connected to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_118984\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/map-genocide-world.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118984\" class=\"wp-image-118984\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/map-genocide-world-1024x493.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/map-genocide-world-1024x493.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/map-genocide-world-300x144.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/map-genocide-world-768x370.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/map-genocide-world.jpeg 1484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-118984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The world&#8217;s countries, as reflected by the risk of mass atrocities in each. (Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). WP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide\u00a0launched a tool aimed at forecasting the risk of state-led mass killings. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earlywarningproject.com\/\" >Early Warning Project<\/a> tracks the apparent signs of a potential pogrom or assault on minorities within a state. Its\u00a0findings stitch annual statistical risk assessments\u00a0of\u00a0individual countries \u2014 based on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earlywarningproject.com\/faq#risk_assessment_labels\" >a number of models<\/a> conceived by political scientists \u2014 alongside crowd-sourced opinion surveys of regional experts.<\/p>\n<p>The 10\u00a0countries at the\u00a0highest risk of experiencing a future episode of mass killing are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Myanmar<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Central African Republic<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Democratic Republic of Congo<\/li>\n<li>Somalia<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>South Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Afghanistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earlier this year, WorldViews <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/05\/07\/u-s-holocaust-museum-says-this-muslim-minority-could-face-genocide\/\" >talked<\/a> to Cameron Hudson, director of the Simon-Skjodt Center, about the threat in Burma (also known as Myanmar). Hudson had been part of a fact-finding mission to the country, studying the risks faced by the beleaguered Rohingyas, a Muslim minority that&#8217;s been <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/02\/13\/why-does-this-buddhist-majority-nation-hate-these-muslims-so-much\/\" >rendered stateless<\/a> by decades\u00a0of discriminatory Burmese policies.<\/p>\n<p>A report\u00a0concluded then that the Rohingya were a people &#8220;at grave risk for additional mass atrocities and even genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re very cautious when\u00a0we invoke the term &#8216;genocide,&#8217; knowing that it can be quite polarizing and sometimes even unhelpful,&#8221; said Hudson\u00a0at the time. &#8220;But there is\u00a0a combination of factors \u2014\u00a0many of which you saw in 1930s Germany and 1990s Rwanda \u2014\u00a0that are quite concerning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project now is anchored in the Holocaust Museum&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/confront-genocide\/about\" >moral mission<\/a> to educate against and prevent future atrocities, says Michael Chertoff, former secretary of Homeland Security and chairman of the museum&#8217;s Committee on Conscience, in an e-mailed news\u00a0release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No longer can governments say that they &#8216;did not know&#8217; as a means of justifying their inaction,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Ishaan Tharoor writes about foreign affairs for<\/em> The Washington Post. <em>He previously was a senior editor at<\/em> TIME, <em>based first in Hong Kong and later in New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/09\/21\/map-the-risk-of-genocide-around-the-world\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide launched a tool aimed at forecasting the risk of state-led mass killings. 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