The Budapest Centre will partecipate to the luncheon session: Responsibility to Protect and Mediation: Friends or Foes? in the context of the INITIATIVE ON MEDIATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION “Promoting a Culture of Mediation and Prevention in the Mediterranean” organized in Brdo, 11 March 2014 by the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

CONCEPT NOTE of the luncheon session:

During the High Level Panel on the 65th Anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention on Genocide of the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council held in Geneva on 7 March, 2014 the Missions of the European Union, the Republic of Montenegro, Poland and Hungary shared the work of the Budapest Centre in the prevention of mass atrocities and underlined the importance of the Report of the EU Task Force on the Prevention of Mass Atrocities in supporting the work of regional mechanisms to assess their capacities to boost prevention policies.

The Budapest Centre collaborates with the University of Venice and other important national and international stakeholders to the programme of an international conference that will be held in Venice from the 6th to the 8th of February 2014.

The Budapest Centre for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, in collaboration with partners from the Visegrad Group (Milan Simecka Foundation, Slovak Republic; Transitions (TOL), Czech Republic; and University of Gdansk, Poland), supported by the International Visegrad Fund, launched a four-semester programme consisting of three-day workshops in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic for members of the legislations, representatives of governmental institutions, academia and civil society.

The Budapest Centre in cooperation with LUISS Research Centre on International and European Organizations

Hosts a roundtable “International Cooperation to Stop and Prevent Mass Atrocities”

Central European University
Popper Room
Nador u. 9, 1051 Budapest, Hungary
06 November 2013 – 9:00 – 15:30

An event promoted by the International Criminal Court, the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, the Budapest Centre for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities – partners of the Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development – in collaboration with the President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, the Trust Fund for Victims, the U.S. Department of State and USAID.

The Budapest Centre in cooperation with Swisspeace Swisspeace organized a Dialogue with the Task Force Dealing with the Past and Mass Atrocities of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs  in Bern on 27 June 2013.