"Early Warning for Mass Atrocities & US National Security"

This talk will explore how identifying and responding to potential mass atrocities serves humanitarian imperatives and fortifies national security interests. In particular, it will focus on the intersection between early warning systems for mass atrocities and US national security. Dr. Landau will discuss the methodologies and technologies used in early warning systems and the strategic importance of preventing large-scale human rights abuses.

Dr. Ashleigh Landau is a research associate for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, where she is responsible for conducting quantitative and qualitative research on a wide range of issues related to atrocity prevention, with a primary focus on the Center’s Early Warning Project. Ashleigh is also an adjunct instructor at Georgetown University, where she teaches courses on mass atrocity prevention. In graduate school, Ashleigh and her colleagues at the University of Oregon developed a tool to measure and assess patterns of exclusionary thinking that are associated with mass killing. She has worked with government officials, practitioners, and NGOs on these topics. She has an ongoing partnership with the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights and is a recurring speaker at their workshops. She has also co-directed and implemented large-scale conflict-analysis simulations. Ashleigh has a BS in psychology from St. Mary’s College of California and an MS and PhD in social psychology from the University of Oregon.

Host or Publisher Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies