This episode features Savita Pawnday, Deputy Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P), an international advocacy and research NGO housed at the CUNY Graduate Center. The conversation engages the themes of mass atrocity crimes, the responsibility of states and the international community to protect populations from gross human rights violations, atrocity prevention, and global cooperation. It also includes discussion of COVID-19, the rise of nationalism, social media and hate speech, and climate change.