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before they start" }); </script>  <h1>Stop atrocities before they start</h1>   <div class="cnn_stryathrtmp"> <div class="cnnByline">By <strong>Michael Shank </strong>and <strong>Madeline Rose</strong>, Special to CNN</div> <div class="cnn_strytmstmp">updated 11:15 AM EDT, Fri April 26, 2013</div> </div>  <div class="cnn_strycntntlft">  <div class="cnn_stryimg640captioned"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501210328im_/http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130425151931-atrocities-board-darfur-story-top.jpg" alt="Malnourished Sudanese childre are fed at a camp for people displaced by the war in Darfur in June, 2004." border="0" height="360" width="640"/></div> <div class="cnn_stryimg640caption"><div class="cnn_strycaptiontxt">Malnourished Sudanese childre are fed at a camp for people displaced by the war in Darfur in June, 2004.</div></div> <a name="em0"></a> <div class="cnn_strylftcntnt"><div class="cnn_strylctcntr"> <div><strong>STORY HIGHLIGHTS</strong></div> <ul class="cnn_bulletbin cnnStryHghLght">  <li>President set up Atrocities Prevention Board to get ahead of potential genocides</li> <li><a href="" target="_blank">The board's aim</a> is to shift U.S. policy away from responding to atrocities to preventing them</li> <li>Writers: Congress needs to put long-term efforts in place in potential hot spots</li> <li>Writers: Sanctions, visa bans or military operations don't work in modern-day conflicts </li>  </ul> </div></div>  <p class="cnnEditorialNote"><em><strong>Editor's note:</strong> Michael Shank is director of foreign policy at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501210328/http://fcnl.org/splash/s1/c2/p1/" target="_blank">Friends Committee on National Legislation</a>. Madeline Rose is a new leaders fellow with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501210328/http://www.progressiveleaders.org/" target="_blank">Center for Progressive Leadership</a>. </br> </em></p> <p><strong>(CNN)</strong> -- One year ago this week, President Barack Obama launched the Atrocities Prevention Board to find ways to get ahead of the kind of crisis we're seeing in Syria, and the kind we witnessed in Darfur and Rwanda.</p> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2"><a href="" target="_blank">The board's aim</a> is to shift U.S. foreign policy away from responding to atrocities to preventing them; to oversee the development of prevention and response policy, and to deal with urgent situations as they arise. The board is under the chairmanship of the National Security Council and is a result of a decades-long effort by the global anti-genocide community. It marks its one-year anniversary 10 years after the genocide began in Darfur, and nearly 20 years after Rwanda.</p> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3">Given the changing nature of warfare, the board -- and the 12 agencies that compose it, including State, Defense, Homeland Security, CIA, and the Agency for International Development -- also was charged with suggesting ways in which conflict prevention could be more nimble and effective.</p> <div class="cnn_strylftcntnt"><div class="cnn_strylctcntr cnn_strylccimg214"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501210328im_/http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130425150136-madeline-rose-left-tease.jpeg" alt="Madeline Rose" border="0" class="box-image" height="122" width="214"/> <div>Madeline Rose</div> </div></div> <div class="cnn_strylftcntnt"><div class="cnn_strylctcntr cnn_strylccimg214"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501210328im_/http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130425150310-michael-shank-left-tease.jpeg" alt="Michael Shank" border="0" class="box-image" height="122" width="214"/> <div>Michael Shank</div> </div></div> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4">The problem, however, is that we're still using hardware to fix a software problem. And we're not particularly nimble. In a fast-moving, interconnected, and open-information world, anticipating and preventing armed conflict or mass atrocities requires tools that are equally as fast, flexible and high-impact as the modern perpetrators of violence.</p> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5">We don't need new targeted sanctions programs, visa bans, or expanded military authorizations. These are old tools, more reflective of an outdated, hard-powered and overly militarized approach to engagement than those needed to counter 21st-century security threats.</p> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6">The tools we need are people who are well-trained, technologically connected, fully empowered and well-resourced in hot spots throughout the world. These people, American and local, collect our intelligence, design and inform our early warning systems, quell political unrest through diplomacy and development, and train the next generation of leaders in conflict regions to read and write, legislate and litigate, reignite broken economies and repair eroded social fabric.</p> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7">What work did we do in the last 10 years in Syria or Libya to empower civil society in conflict prevention, invest robustly in strengthening governance, access to justice and the rule of law, and expand information networks and open communication? We did very little.</p> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8">This work -- building human capacity in countries in turmoil and expanding systems for information sharing -- is the single most cost-effective approach to atrocity prevention when the true objective is sustainable peace. And yet we have left meager footprints on these fronts in Afghanistan or Iraq.</p> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9">As the Atrocity Prevention Board begins its second year, the road ahead must be redesigned to better reflect these recommendations. If we want to prevent more situations like Syria, we must work closely with Congress to protect or increase funding for the State Department's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501210328/http://www.state.gov/j/cso/" target="_blank">Conflict Stabilization Operations</a> and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501210328/http://www.nyscoc.org/complexcrisisfund.pdf" target="_blank">Complex Crises Fund</a>, international organizations, transition initiatives, and programs focused on access to justice, governance and security reform, human rights and social inclusion.</p> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10">How do we get Congress to fund this critical atrocities prevention work in the age of sequesters and cost-cutting measures? Engage the American public.</p> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11">The public will be essential for atrocities prevention efforts to succeed. The American public is behind us on this. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501210328/http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/endgenocide/poll/" target="_blank">According to a poll by the U.S. Holocaust Museum</a>, seven in 10 Americans think the United States should prevent or stop genocide or mass atrocities from happening in another part of the world. Engagement with the American public is an untapped resource of support. Yet, a year after the board was established, a clear mechanism for civil society to engage in its work does not exist.</p> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12">We commend the Obama administration -- along with civil society, international institutions, think tanks and academics and activists in anti-genocide and prevention -- for their efforts to advance our national understanding of modern day conflict, and our ability to respond in a truly paradigm-shifting way. The Atrocities Prevention Board filled a major hole in U.S. foreign policy and sets a promising trajectory for increasing the U.S. and international community's ability to prevent mass atrocities.</p> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13">But more work is needed. Now it is time to take that commitment to the next level by issuing an executive order spelling out the U.S. government's strategy for preventing mass atrocities and the key tasks of those charged with making it happen.</p> <p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph14">We can stop the next genocide. We can prevent the next violent conflict. 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Head Start and Meals on Wheels also hit. </div> <div class="cnn_clear"></div> </div></div></div> <div class="cnn_stryspcvbx"><div class="cnn_stryspcvbxcntr"><div class="cnn_stryscbx1"> <div><a href="/web/20130501210328/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/27/opinion/bergen-warning-signs-terrorism/index.html?iid=article_sidebar">Agencies often miss warning signs of attacks</a></div> <div class="cnn_stryscbx2"> updated 5:27 AM EDT, Mon April 29, 2013 </div> <div class="cnn_stryscbx3"> <a href="/web/20130501210328/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/27/opinion/bergen-warning-signs-terrorism/index.html?iid=article_sidebar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501210328im_/http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130424160912-boston-bombings-boylston-street-reopens-video-tease.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="68" width="120"/></a> </div> <div class="cnn_stryscbx4">Peter Bergen says missed signals and lack of inter-agency communication are factors that help enable terrorism to succeed</div> <div 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class="cnn_stryspcvbx"><div class="cnn_stryspcvbxcntr"><div class="cnn_stryscbx1"> <div><a href="/web/20130501210328/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/26/opinion/green-johnson-cha-north-korea/index.html?iid=article_sidebar">How to stop the North Korea madness</a></div> <div class="cnn_stryscbx2"> updated 12:40 PM EDT, Sun April 28, 2013 </div> <div class="cnn_stryscbx3"> <a href="/web/20130501210328/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/26/opinion/green-johnson-cha-north-korea/index.html?iid=article_sidebar"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501210328im_/http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130425180524-north-korea-south-korea-protest-video-tease.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="68" width="120"/></a> </div> <div class="cnn_stryscbx4">Chris Johnson, Michael Green and Victor Cha say the problem of North Korea's nuclear gamesmanship can be solved</div> <div class="cnn_clear"></div> </div></div></div> <div class="cnn_stryspcvbx"><div class="cnn_stryspcvbxcntr"><div class="cnn_stryscbx1"> <div><a 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