The Prevention Project, housed at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law, seeks to broaden and upstream global efforts to prevent mass human rights violations and abuses. The project’s mission is to make prevention a reality by transforming global prevention practices to be more effective, systematic, proactive, and contextually relevant.
During its first and second phases, the Prevention Project engaged over 250 experts across 10 workstreams examining preventive measures across distinct thematic areas. The Environment & Human Rights workstream, established in December 2022 with the support of the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, published its final report on ‘Preventing Mass Human Rights Violations in the Context of the Climate Crisis’ in June 2024.
The Project has since initiated a collaboration led by Dr. Claudia Ituarte-Lima, the Thematic Lead on Human Rights and Environment and Senior Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, exploring the connections between the prevention of mass human rights violations, peacebuilding, and the climate crisis, showing how these goals are interlinked and mutually-reinforcing.
Want to learn more? Contact our thematic leader Claudia Ituarte-Lima; email: Claudia.ituarte-lima@rwi.lu.se