1. Short title; table of contents (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2017 . (b) Table of contents The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Definitions. Sec. 4. Statement of policy regarding genocide and other atrocity crimes prevention. Sec. 5. Mass Atrocities Task Force. Sec. 6. Training of Foreign Service officers in conflict and atrocity crimes prevention. Sec. 7. Report of the Director of National Intelligence. Sec. 8. Complex Crises Fund. 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The nature of genocide and other atrocity crimes, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing, includes shocking acts of violence perpetrated by governments and non-state actors, which have killed millions of civilians and other innocent individuals. (2) The commitment to prevent acts of genocide and other atrocity crimes has been a centerpiece of policy by consecutive administrations of the United States Government. (3) The United States was the first country in the world to sign the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, signed at Paris December 9, 1948, and President Ronald Reagan signed implementing legislation allowing the United States to become a party to the Convention on November 25, 1988. (4) In the 2006 National Security Strategy, President George W. Bush highlighted the moral imperative that states take action to prevent and punish genocide . (5) In 2008, the bipartisan Genocide Prevention Task Force, which was co-chaired by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright— (A) stated genocide and mass atrocities also threaten core U.S. national interests