USHMM Simon-Skjodt Center / Early Warning Project
Federal museum + statistical risk forecasting · Washington, DC, USA · est. Museum 1993; Early Warning Project 2014
Publishes an annual Statistical Risk Assessment ranking 160+ countries by risk of new mass killing, with fully public models and data (GitHub). Partnered with Dartmouth's Dickey Center.
Financing
organizationA public-private partnership: roughly 43% federal appropriation and 57% private donations museum-wide. The Simon-Skjodt Center is ~2% of program expenses, funded largely by private/restricted gifts.
A US federal establishment governed by a 68-member Council (55 presidential appointees, 10 congressional).
Financing is shown to help readers weigh incentives and constraints. It is not a finding that the source is truthful or false.
Methodologically transparent and peer-reviewed — one of the most replicable sources here. But it is a US-government-chartered institution, and it forecasts risk; it does not issue legal determinations.
The museum is a US federal establishment with a 68-member governing Council (55 presidential appointees, 10 congressional). The museum director and Simon-Skjodt Center director are appointed leadership. Research staff are employees. There is no open public membership that votes on findings.
Leadership & members
- Sara J. BloomfieldMuseum Director
- Naomi KikolerDirector, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide
- Benjamin Valentino (Dartmouth)Early Warning Project co-creator / academic lead
- Committee on Conscience & research staffadvisory board and analysts
Named individuals reflect leadership at the time of writing; linked names have individual profiles in this record. See membership & leadership above for how they are selected.
People profiled in this record
On the record
Verbatim quotations in this project attributed to this body or its officials.
Case: armenian →“Thousands of Armenian children were abducted and placed with Muslim families, where they were forced to convert to Islam and were raised as Turks.”
Cases in this record
Sources & disclosures
- FY2023 Budget (funding breakdown) — USHMM
- Early Warning Project methodology — USHMM + Dartmouth