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Origins
Brothers James and Stephen Smith created the UK Holocaust Centre in 1995, as both tribute and memorial, but events in Bosnia and Rwanda left them troubled: was remembrance enough?
The Kosovo crisis in 1999 was the final catalyst for Aegis. The ethnic cleansing seemed to take the West by surprise. However, while organizing aid for victims of the crisis, the brothers recognized that like events in the Holocaust, a long process preceded the point where people could be systematically expelled or murdered.
Genocide,they concluded, is a public health issue. We prevent epidemics because we know the factors that cause them. And since we can identify factors for genocide, we should be able to prevent that too. So the Aegis Trust for genocide prevention was born.
The Aegis Prevention Model
Aegis treats genocide as a public health issue with three phases:
Primary Prevention
Research, remembrance and learning about the past, creating community resilience against the risk of genocide in the future
Secondary Prevention
Evidence-based campaigns to stop mass atrocities in the present
Tertiary prevention
Supporting survivors and communities to rebuild when genocide is pastuam odio.
