ABSTRACT

The authors show how to develop a Genocide Early Warning System (EWS) within realistic expenditures of time and funds. Genocide early warning has been desired because of the belief that if adequate warning existed, sufficiently in advance, the impending disaster could be mitigated or possibly even averted. Charny and Rapaport (1982), Payne, (1973), Ross (1982), and others have already outlined much of the philosophical underpinning required as a basis for a Genocide EWS. The authors have used an applied science approach to show how to develop such a system. From the material presented it is possible to prepare the operative proposal and request for funding.