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Naomi Kikoler

Atrocity prevention director — USHMM · United States

Affiliated with USHMM Simon-Skjodt Center / Early Warning Project

Government-funded research

Director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum; oversees Early Warning Project partnership with Dartmouth.

Financing

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Money source

Federal museum establishment salary; center funded largely by private restricted gifts.

Institutional alignment

USHMM leadership; former Human Rights Watch and ICC advocacy roles.

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Disclosures & conflicts

Leads a center within a US federal museum (mixed congressional and private funding). Early Warning Project ranks country risk algorithmically — outputs are forecasts, not genocide findings. Prior HRW and civil-society advocacy background.

Credibility & caveats

Oversees statistically transparent risk forecasting — not legal genocide determinations.

How this source is used

This profile is used to weigh publishers, investigators, officials, or source material cited inside case evidence. It may not itself issue a genocide determination for a case. See the methodology for the source-weighting rules.

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