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Every country in the world, including Russia and China and the United States and even perpetrator countries like Sudan, have said they recognize the Responsibility to Protect. Our job now and in the future is to hold them up to this promise.

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A new report written by Madeleine K. Albright, the former secretary of state, and Richard S. Williamson, a former special envoy to Sudan and foreign-policy adviser to Mitt Romney, argues that the administration should wholeheartedly embrace “responsibility to protect” and explain its importance to the American public. The report – which was jointly sponsored by the Museum, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Brookings Institution – offers a list of recommendations, among them that Mr. Obama “should articulate a clear vision of U.S. support for R2P” and “should not shy away from using the phrase.”

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Death figures prominently in the life of Adam Bashar. But so does hope.

The 23-year-old genocide survivor is trying to prevent future genocides by learning the somber lessons of the genocide by which all others are measured - the Shoah. His classroom is the cavernous Museum in D.C., where he serves as an intern, one of the few Muslims ever to hold that position.

For more information on what the Museum is doing to raise awareness about genocide, visit http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/

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Today marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. The United Nations designated this date International Holocaust Remembrance Day to honor the memory of those killed during the Holocaust and to rededicate ourselves to doing all we can to prevent such horrible crimes from happening again.

Given the bloody history of the past five decades — in Cambodia, Rwanda, the Balkans, Darfur and other places — a healthy degree of skepticism is warranted about politicians’ commitment to the lofty goal of “never again.” However, we believe that progress is discernible...

To learn more about IHRD, visit: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/ihrd/comment_post.php

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"At this point it appears the referendum itself might come off relatively peacefully," said Mike Abramowitz, who leads the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's genocide prevention efforts. "But this is just a first step. This remains a fragile and volatile situation, and the danger will come in the months ahead as the world turns its attention to other matters."

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The 22-year civil war in southern Sudan left 2.5m people dead and millions more displaced. A team from the US Holocaust Museum heard their harrowing stories ahead of Sunday's independence referendum.

Watch this video created by Lucian Perkins. 

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Can the South Part From the North Without War?
Andrew S. Natsios and Michael Abramowitz

Andrew S. Natsios, U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan in 2006–7, is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, a Senior Fellow at the HudsonInstitute, and the author of the forthcoming book Sudan and Darfur: What Everyone Needs to Know. Michael Abramowitz, a former Washington Post reporter and national editor, is Director of the Committee on Conscience at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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In mid-2010,  Washington dramatically increased its involvement by offering Khartoum new incentives, including eventual normalization of U.S. ties if it allowed the vote to go ahead, and dispatching a retired diplomat, Princeton Lyman, to personally shepherd talks between the North and the South.

"The administration sees this as a prevention situation. They feel that aggressive action beforehand can head off very costly violence in the future, "said Michael Abramowitz, director of the Committee on Conscience which guides genocide prevention efforts at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Michael Abramowitz, director of the Museum's Committee on Conscience,  writes:

Obama's test comes in Sudan, which on Jan. 9 is supposed to hold a referendum on whether the country's southern region will secede from the north. If the south votes for independence - as it is expected to do after decades of marginalization and a north-south civil war - deadly violence could easily erupt. 

The Obama administration is populated with senior officials - Vice President Biden, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton come to mind - who understand the consequences of past inaction. Although it took some time to reach this point, the administration is now focused on preventing the worst.

Visit the Committee on Conscience at http://www.ushmm.org/genocide

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U.S. officials see a new risk of blood-shed in next month's independence vote in Southern Sudan. This time, everyone from celebrities to U.S. diplomats is trying a new approach: Drawing attention to the risk of mass violence in hopes of preventing it.

No one in power screamed before the mass killings in Cambodia and Rwanda. Mike Abramowitz wants to change that.

He runs the program on genocide prevention at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and spent two weeks in Southern Sudan this fall to evaluate and publicize the risks of violence. Abramowitz says this new approach by activists and politicians is driven by past failures.

"The prevention of genocide really came up as a concept ... in the 1990s after Rwanda and after the Balkans," he said. "You started to have people in government — Bill Clinton, for example — who were very regretful of what happened on their watch."

Visit the Committee on Conscience at http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/

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