Presidential Study Directive Aims to Prevent Mass Attrocities
and Genocide  Tuesday, August 9, 2011  Sixty-six years since the
Holocaust and 17 years after Rwanda, the United States still
lacks a comprehensive policy framework and a corresponding
interagency mechanism for preventing and responding to mass
atrocities and genocide.  This has left the United States ill
prepared to engage early, proactively, and decisively to prevent
threats from evolving into large-scale civilian atrocities.  The
Presidential Study Directive on Mass Atrocities (PSD-10)
establishes an interagency Atrocities Prevention Board whose
primary purpose shall be to coordinate a whole of government
approach to preventing mass atrocities and genocide.  PSD-10
ensures that the United States’ national security apparatus
recognizes and is responsive to early indicators of potential
atrocities; that departments and agencies develop and implement
comprehensive atrocity prevention and response strategies in a
manner that allows “red flags” and d