On 17 November 2014 the Director of Research and Cooperation of the Budapest Centre, Dr. Enzo Maria Le Fevre Cervini, held a conference on the Responsibility to Protect and the new framework of analysis for atrocity crimes at the Vicenza based Center of Excellence for the Stability Police Units (CoESPU). 

Having satisfied the criteria as specified by the EDU Commission for Accreditation Standards, duly established by executive mandate by H.E. Irving LE-VANCE , Secretary-General of the Intergovernmental Organization EDU on July 1st 2011 and having passed an independent evaluation by the selected and designated Assessment Committee representatives, the Budapest Centre was awarded Full Institutional Accreditation from EDU on November 14th 2014.

On November 19 the Budapest Centre for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities will organize a workshop on the role of education in the prevention of atrocity crimes. This is a pre-event of the VII Budapest Human Rights Forum and will take place at the Central European University (Popper Room) between 9.00am and 6:00pm.

Gyorgy Tatar, Director of the Budapest Centre participated in the conference “Preventing and Countering Far-Right Extremism and Radicalization: European Cooperation” organized by the Swedish Ministry of Justice and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in Stockholm on 25-26 June.

Report
by Hartley Millar

Tuesday 20th May 2014
Room of the Council – Department of Political Sciences – University of Roma Tre
Via Gabriello Chiabrera 199 – Rome