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On 19th November 2012, the Task Force on the EU Prevention of Mass Atrocities, the Foundation for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, the SWP, the INEF and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research invited a variety of high-ranking academics, policy-makers and representatives of civil society to discuss a draft of the report of the Task Force (TF) on strengthening the EU’s capabilities to prevent mass atrocities.

The Budapest Centre releases its Roundtable report on “Hate speech: the role of new in the prevention of mass atrocities”.

Dr. Gyorgy Tatar, Chair of the Board of Trustees, addresses the participants of the 5th Budapest Human Rights Forum.

The Foundation, in cooperation with one of its founders, the Central European University, organized a roundtable where the representatives of academia and policy makers could discuss and explore the role of new media in the prevention of mass atrocities.

The Budapest Centre paid an official visit to Turkey.

In course of the visit the representatives of the Budapest Centre met with officials of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Turkish Development Agency.

The Budapest Centre was invited to participate to the Ordinary Meeting of the Regional Committee on Genocide Prevention of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) that was held in Kampala (Uganda), with the support of the Office of the Special Advisor of the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and in collaboration with the Uganda National Coordination Mechanism.

In the premises of the Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel in Entebbe a representative of the Budapest Centre attended the Seminar for the Uganda National Committee for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide and Mass Atrocities co-organized by the UN Office of the Special Adviser of the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide (OPGR2P) and the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), with the goal of improving prevention mechanisms at the national level in Uganda in the field of genocide and mass atrocities prevention.