Partners for Global Change
Teleconference Call:

March 13, 2010
10-11 AM Pacific

Topic: Genocide Prevention

Call-In Number: 888-299-4099

Verbal Pass Code (to be given to the operator): VJ85634

This March 13^th, the Partners for Global Change conference call will focus on Genocide Prevention.  “In the last century, tens of millions of people have lost their lives in episodes of mass killings. People of conscience rightly demand: never again” (credit: Genocide Prevention Taskforce). Our Saturday Conference Call will include speakers who work on creating tangible, institutionalized methods to prevent the atrocity of genocide in the future.  Click here to visit the Partners website and for a link to the full Taskforce Report.

In November of 2007 a Genocide Prevention Taskforce was convened to: (1) Spotlight genocide prevention as a national priority; and; (2) To develop practical policy recommendations to enhance the capacity of the U.S. government to respond to emerging threats of genocide and mass atrocities.  This Taskforce has provided a blueprint for U.S. policy makers to work towards genocide prevention.

Speakers:

Bridget Moix

Bridget Moix is the lead lobbyist on the Peaceful Prevention of Deadly Conflict program at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker lobby in Washington, DC.  She has worked for 15 years on issues related to peacebuilding and preventing violent conflict.   In addition to 7 years with FCNL, she has also worked with the Quaker United Nations Office, Oxfam America, the World Policy Institute, and the Quaker Peace Centre in South Africa.  She holds a masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia University where she focused her studies on international conflict resolution and human security.  In her work with FCNL, she coordinates the Prevention and Protection Working Group, a collaboration of humanitarian, human rights, and peace and conflict advocacy organizations that is working to advance policy recommendations to prevent atrocities and deadly conflict.  More on her work is available at http://www.fcnl.org/ppdc/.

Nicole Deller

Nicole Deller is the Director of Programs for the GCR2P (Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect – visit http://globalr2p.org/). From 2004-2007 she was Senior Program Officer at the Institute for Global Policy where she headed the Responsibility to Protect-Engaging Civil Society project. As research associate for the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, she was the principal editor and co-author of Rule of Power or Rule of Law: An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties (2003). Ms. Deller received her Juris Doctorate from New York University School of Law and served as chair of the International Security Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar Association (2004-2007).

Thanks for all you do,

Anu Joshi
National Outreach Coordinator