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Recommendation 9
9
Deferred
Paragraph: 47
The Government must ensure consistency between a new strategy on atrocity prevention and the ‘strategic...
Recommendation
The Government must ensure consistency between a new strategy on atrocity prevention and the ‘strategic conflict framework’ under development. This framework itself must articulate atrocity prevention objectives, as distinct from general conflict prevention objectives.
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The government cannot guarantee additional resources due to fiscal constraints and prioritization of essential overseas aid and support for refugees from Ukraine and Afghanistan, pending budget confirmation.
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Paragraph Reference:
47
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
20. The Government acknowledges there must be cohesion and consistency between its approaches to atrocity prevention and conflict prevention, whilst being aware of the crossover and potential tensions between them. The Government has made explicit its recognition of atrocity prevention as a separate agenda to conflict prevention and established distinct teams for the two areas of work. 21. As has been stated previously, the UK Government is committed to taking an effective and focused approach to addressing conflict and instability through prevention. 22. As mentioned in response to Recommendation 4 (above), the Government cannot commit to developing a written strategy at this time.
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