This policy brief explores how integrating an atrocity prevention lens into the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda can strengthen efforts to prevent mass atrocities, conflict-related sexual violence, and other gendered harms in conflict settings. Produced following the June 2024 seminar on Gender, Accountability and Atrocity Prevention and inspired by SRSG Pramila Patten’s keynote address, the brief highlights practical lessons for policymakers, diplomats, researchers, and civil society actors working on prevention, protection, and accountability.
Developed through a collaboration between the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies (HL-SENTERET), the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo (STK), the publication demonstrates how the Women, Peace and Security agenda and atrocity prevention frameworks can reinforce one another to address gendered risks of violence and strengthen early warning, prevention, and response efforts.