Obama_LR23 April 2012 – The Aegis Trust warmly welcomes the US President’s announcement of the creation of an Atrocities Prevention Board, and a comprehensive strategy for the United States to make prevention of mass atrocities and genocide a key focus of US foreign policy.

For analysis of this hugely significant move, see (among others):

Madelaine Albright and William Cohen (Foreign Policy)

Sarah Margon (Think Progress)

Samantha Power – appointed chair of the new Board – wrote this article in the White House Blog when President Obama announced plans last year to set it up.