Title: United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect
Headings: Prevention
Prevention
Reports by the Special Advisers
Relevant thematic UN Resolutions

Content: Preventing atrocity crimes should be a priority for everyone. First and foremost, prevention is the only way to avoid the loss of human life, trauma and physical injury. However, there are also other significant reasons to focus on prevention. The United Nations Security Council has stated in several of its resolutions that serious and gross breaches of international human rights and humanitarian law constitute threats to international peace and security. Therefore, prevention not only contributes to national peace and stability, it also serves the broader regional and international peace and stability agenda. Prevention of atrocity crimes is also much less costly than intervening to halt these crimes, or dealing with their aftermath. Finally, by taking measures to prevent atrocity crimes and fulfilling their primary responsibility to protect, States reinforce their sovereignty and reduce the need for more intrusive forms of response from other States or international actors. Reports by the Special Advisers
Joint study of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence and the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide on the contribution of transitional justice to the prevention of gross violations and abuses of human rights and serious violations of international humanitarian law, particularly to the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, and their recurrence. A/HRC/37/65 (2018)
Check the Summary of discussions of the expert group meetings that contributed to the preparation of the joint study. Report of the Secretary-General on the prevention of genocide ( A/HRC/41/24)
Relevant thematic UN Resolutions
S/RES/1366 (2001) (on early warning and the prevention of armed conflict)
E/CN.4/RES/2005/62 (2005) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
A/HRC/RES/7/25 (2008) Prevention of genocide
A/HRC/RES/22/22 (2013) Prevention of genocide
S/RES/2150 (2014) (on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide)
A/HRC/RES/28/34 (2015) Prevention of genocide
A/RES/69/323 (2015) International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of This Crime
A/HRC/RES/33/19 (2016) Human Rights and Transitional Justice
A/HRC/RES/37/26 (2018) Prevention of genocide
A/HRC/RES/43/29 (2020) Prevention of genocide