Recommendations & Conclusions
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Conclusion
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Despite the UN Security Council’s role in protecting populations and its considerable powers, it faces gridlock in practice. The threat of an UNSC permanent member exercising its veto constrains international action to prevent and end “conscience- shocking” mass atrocities, which raises fears of an ‘age of impunity’. The UK Government …
Government response. The government values its partnerships on atrocity prevention, including with the United States. They are also engaging with the Global Network of R2P Focal Points and have provided funding to the Global Centre for R2P.
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Recommendation
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Armed conflict and mass atrocities are linked, but overfocusing on conflict is likely to miss atrocity risks, to leave groups unprotected and to ignore how atrocities themselves can drive conflict. In addition to conflict prevention, the Government must explicitly recognise the separate but interlinked priority of atrocity prevention.
Government response. From 2023, the government will expand the existing atrocity prevention section of the annual Human Rights and Democracy Report. The OCSM will complete this section drawing information from a range of other teams within FCDO and other relevant Government departments.
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Recommendation
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The Government should ensure that Ministers provide regular and strategic direction to the UK’s atrocity and conflict prevention policy by adding this to the agenda of the Foreign Policy and Security Council and giving the Secretariat responsibility for tracking implementation of the new atrocity prevention strategy (see para 46).
Government response. The government describes the existing Mass Atrocity Prevention Hub, FCDO's International Academy's training, and efforts to strengthen understanding of atrocity prevention.
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Recommendation
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The OCSM must: a) ensure that UK posts and desks for priority countries can access the training and resources that they need, including when factoring relevant thematic objectives into country plans; b) provide the expertise to enable greater awareness of atrocity risks; and c) strengthen co-ordination, the exchange of lessons …
Government response. Staff at Post are already supported by various experts when developing their approach to atrocity prevention, including conflict advisors, governance advisers, and research analysts.
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Conclusion
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The FCDO should introduce a new Atrocity Prevention Toolkit to provide applied, day-to-day guidance to UK Posts and desks on existing support and how to raise the alarm in a crisis.
Government response. The government states that using network analysis to look at actors, contexts, and interrelations is central to their approach and such tools are routinely used to assess corporate structures and financial linkages between individuals and entities.
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Conclusion
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The OCSM must continue to develop the analytical capabilities to monitor and identify countries and groups at risk of mass atrocities, working closely with UK Posts and desks. This work should inform the UK’s policy and programming objectives in countries at risk.
Government response. The government discusses the importance of Fragile and Conflict Affected States (FCAS) for the IDS and describes how they use a range of tools to deliver development and foreign policy ambitions and delegates more authority to HoMs on bilateral ODA …