Richard O'Brien
Richard O’Brien is the author of In Case of Genocide – Break Glass: How we end Genocidal Indifference, 2015 on which he draws from his experience as Director of the Center for the Prevention of Genocide (CPG) to tell stories of lifesaving early warning actions. The book includes a comprehensive ‘Genocide Prevention Manual’ that genocide scholars are calling the most advanced in the field. As Director of the CPG, O’Brien oversaw the creation of three generations of early warning methodology, several early warning crisis procedures, testified as an expert in Congressional sub-Committee and presented at the United Nations, U.S government agencies, on national TV and radio. He served as Senior Editor for more than twenty-five human rights reports primarily in Africa and Asia.
Successful early warning crisis procedures O’Brien presided over included several preventative actions in: 2001 for an ongoing massacre in Sulawesi, Indonesia, 2002 for a man-induced famine in Nuba, Sudan, 2002/2003 two ongoing massacres in Bunia and Bukavu, in eastern D.R. Congo, 2003 to stop the winter dismantling of Chechen refugee camps, 2004 to highlight the danger of a India-Pakistan accidental nuclear confrontation, 2004 for ongoing LRA massacres of Acholi in Northern Uganda and in 2004 to detail massacres in Darfur, Sudan and calling it genocide.
O’Brien taught International Human Rights, Conflict in the Modern World and World Ideologies at the University of South Florida. He chaired the Democratic Party in Manatee County, Florida, founded several caucuses, lobbied for statewide and local human rights and served on the Florida Democratic
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