Select Committee · International Development Committee

Promoting dialogue and preventing atrocities: the UK government approach

Status: Closed Opened: 26 Nov 2021 Closed: 8 Mar 2023 19 recommendations 11 conclusions 1 report

Report and Government response published The International Development Committee has now published a Report on From Srebrenica to a safer tomorrow: Preventing future mass atrocities around the world and concluded Russia’s likely mass atrocities in Ukraine underline the urgent need for the UK to adopt a national strategy for preventing and responding to such crimes. …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Third Report - From Srebrenica to a safer tomorrow: Prevent… HC 149 17 Oct 2022 30 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
8 Recommendation Third Report - From Srebrenica to a saf… Rejected

The Government must introduce a cross-departmental strategy for preventing and responding to mass atrocities globally,...

The Government must introduce a cross-departmental strategy for preventing and responding to mass atrocities globally, both within and outside of conflicts. It must strive for greater consistency of purpose across Government. The strategy must: a) support development by considering prevention at all stages of the policy cycle, recognising that prevention …

Government response. The government is committed to working in partnership with a diverse range of CSOs and local organizations to understand best practice approaches and specific country contexts, but cannot commit to producing an atrocity prevention strategy at this time.

Oral evidence sessions

2 sessions
Date Witnesses
24 May 2022 Leigh Stubblefield · Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Matthew Field, Pete Vowles, The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon · Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office View ↗
11 Jan 2022 Denisa Delić · International Rescue Committee, Natalie Samarasinghe · United Nations Association – UK, Saidi Zirhumana · Support Office for Peacebuilding in the DRC (Bureau de Soutien pour la Consolidation de la Paix), Savita Pawnday · Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect View ↗

Correspondence

1 letter
DateDirectionTitle
26 Apr 2022 To cttee Letter from the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Af…