Areas of Concern

Genocide Intervention Network highlights ongoing conflicts around the world where mass atrocities are committed against non-combatant civilians on a large scale. Genocide Intervention Network's decision to classify a region as an Area of Concern is a necessary step towards our engagement in the conflict. After classifying conflicts as Areas of Concern, we determine whether our engagement in the conflict will include increasing public knowledge of the situation, participation in legislative and economic advocacy campaigns, and/or the development and implementation of civilian protection programs.

The process and methodology used by the Genocide Intervention Network to categorize "Areas of Concern" involves the fulfillment of two distinct criteria:

Type of Violence: The type of violence we are most concerned with is genocidal violence; i.e. the large-scale intentional targeting of civilians as victims of murder, rape or torture. We also aim to determine whether violence in chronic and likely to continue without intervention.

Magnitude of Violence: When examining the magnitude of violence, we assess the overall scale of the violence as well as the rate at which violence occurs.