ABOUT USAAP

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In 2024, I co-founded the Mass Atrocity Research Initiative at American University's School of International Service. At this time, I also founded the United States Atrocities Accountability Project (USAAP), which is a partnership between me and student volunteers. The mission of USAAP is to contribute to existing, and create new, efforts to hold the United States accountable for the atrocities it has committed and has facilitated. Because the United States has erected numerous barriers, in this context, accountability is not limited to legal accountability. Accountability includes, first, documentation of atrocities committed by the United States and its client states. Such documentation includes the collection of media reporting and nongovernmental and intergovernmental organization reports, and statements by government officials. Second, in the case of atrocities facilitated by the United States, documentation includes tracking U.S.-provided political and material support to client states directly responsible for the commission of atrocities. Third, accountability includes efforts to promote public awareness of, and scholarly and advocacy engagement with, U.S. atrocities. This includes writing op-eds, publishing original research, and holding a regular conference, which may include People’s tribunals. Together, these accountability efforts will contribute to forms of justice beyond retributive, such as restorative and reparative justice, by seeking public accountability and, therefore, a more accurate historical memory.

​While USAAP is committed to the longer history of U.S. atrocities, the first USAAP project is focusing on a multimedia approach to raising awareness about and promoting public accountability for civilians killed and atrocities committed by the United States in Pakistan and Yemen during the "war on terror."