Issue Brief
In 2025, the APSG published new, expert research, putting forth lessons learned from the 2020-2022 Ethiopia-Tigray conflict:
- Preventing Starvation Crimes: Lessons Learned from Tigray (by Shane Goetz). Exploring how conflict, starvation, and international frameworks are interlinked in order to prevent future systemic crimes against civilians
Meetings and Featured Speakers
The following list captures the topics and initial presenters from all meetings held by the APSG in 2025. The APSG maintains its policy of holding non-attributable meetings. However, some of our presenters have kindly allowed for their opening remarks to be recorded and made publicly available. Those meetings with available recordings are linked in the title names below.
- Women and Atrocity Prevention (January 23, 2025): A look at the role of women in atrocity prevention efforts through two different lenses.
- Marie Berry, University of Denver
- Rajaa Altalli, Center for Civil Society and Democracy for Syria
- Prevention Techniques (February 20, 2025): Surveying various approaches to research and techniques relating to atrocity prevention.
- Hollie Nzitatira, Ohio State University
- Elisende Calvet-Martinez, University of Barcelona
- Kristina Hook, Kennesaw State University
- Jamie Wise, Zekelman Holocaust Center
- COVID and Border Policies (March 20, 2025): Exploring COVID border closures, migration, and movement patterns.
- Laurie Trautman, Western Washington University
- Edward Alden, Western Washington University
- Hardin Lang, Refugees International
- The Future of Atrocity Prevention as Seen from Abroad (April 24, 2025): Perspectives on atrocity prevention work from outside the United States.
- Andrea Bartoli, Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue USA
- Ekkehard Strauss, The Berlin School of Economics and Law
- Amb. Don Steinberg, former USAID
- Guinea’s Challenges (May 22, 2025): A research presentation on the contextual factors framing the history and contemporary landscape of Guinea.
- Momodou Bah, Notre Dame
- Cristina Stefan, University of Leeds; European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
- Claire Sneed, former US Foreign Service Officer
- Annual List Comparison Meeting (July 8, 2025): An annual discussion on risks, watchlists, rankings, and connections.
- Benjamin Valentino, Dartmouth College
- Hollie Nzitatira, Ohio State University
- Chris Mahony, Peloria
- The Crisis in Haiti (August 7, 2025): Experts engage on the evolving situation in Haiti.
- Georges Fauriol, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings Institution
- Wolf Pamphile, Haiti Policy House
- Keith Mines, former United States Institute of Peace
- Annual Research Exchange (September 18, 2025): Exploring research questions and ongoing projects for further engagement on atrocity prevention.
- Beth Van Schaack, former US Department of State
- Jennifer Welsh, McGill University
- Emily Sample, Alliance for Peacebuilding
- Daniel Solomon, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide
- Babette Kania, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide
- Sydney Litterer, Michigan State University
- Susanna Kelley, New Lines Institute
- Gwendolyn Whidden, University of Oxford
- Madeline Vellturo, Strategic Stabilization Advisors
- Professor Emilie A. Caspar’s Just Following Orders: Atrocities and the Brain Science of Obedience (October 16, 2025): Investigating the link between brain science and atrocities.
- Emilie A. Caspar, University of Ghent
- Tim Phillips, Beyond Conflict
- Jim Waller, University of Connecticut
- The Future of International Criminal Law (November 17, 2025): Surveying the current political landscape and what the future holds for international criminal law.
- Harold Koh, Yale Law School
- Dermot Groome, Penn State Dickinson Law School
- Clint Williamson, Georgetown University
- What’s Next for Zimbabwe? (December 4, 2025): Analyzing the historical and contemporary politics of Zimbabwe and positing a future trajectory.
- Mooya Nyaundi, Open Society Foundations-US
- Dr. Delta Mbonisi Sivalo, former International Republican Institute
