Mass Atrocity Crimes Indices and Watch Lists

Genocide Prevention Project aggregated five well-regarded independent indices or watch lists – to create the Mass Atrocity Crimes Watch List 2008-09 -- a “watch list of watch lists.”   Those indices and watch lists are: Countries at Risk of Genocide and Politicide in May 2008 Information at:  http://globalpolicy.gmu.edu/genocide/ Peoples Under Threat 2008, Minority Rights Group International Available at:  http://www.minorityrights.org/837/peoples-under-threat/peoples-under-threat-2008.html The Failed States Index created by the Fund for Peace with the support of The Ploughshares Fund, and published in collaboration with Foreign Policy magazine Available at:  http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4350 Genocide Watch’s “Genocides, Politicides, and Other Mass Murder Since 1945 Available at: http://genocidewatch.org/images/Genocide_08_Genocides_and_Politicides_since_1945_with_stages_in_2008.pdf Genocide Intervention Network’s list of countries that are “areas of concern” as well as the countries on its “radar list” Available at:  http://www.genocideintervention.net/ Read more about these lists, including the methodology used to create the Mass Atrocity Crimes Watch List 2008-09, in our report More Than An Ounce Required: Summoning the Political Will to Prevent Genocide and Mass Atrocity Crimes in the 21st Century.