Genocide Prevention Advisory Network (GPANet) was founded in the late 1990s as a combined initiative of a number of academics.
The group’s purposes are manifold:
a) research and investigation into genocidal events and other mass atrocities – risk assessments, possibilities of early warning, and the like;
b) investigation into non-military options of preventing genocidal events and other mass atrocities;
c) investigation into options of non-military steps to stop or at least alleviate ongoing events of that nature;
d) provision of advice to UN bodies (mainly the UN Special Adviser on Genocide Prevention, and now also the Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect) and interested governments, when such advice is sought;
e) examining the possibilities of international interventions of different kinds.