As part of Holocaust Remembrance week, former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen were honored at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 22 for their work on genocide prevention.

Secretaries Albright and Cohen co-chaired the Genocide Prevention Task Force, jointly convened by USIP, the Holocaust Museum and the American Academy of Diplomacy, which released its report in December 2008.

Earlier in the week, former President Bill Clinton, speaking at the new Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, referred to the Genocide Prevention Task Force report:

"We are now more than a half century past the Holocaust, living in history’s most interdependent age, in which divorcing ourselves from the problems of other people is neither moral nor a practical option…As my two former cabinet secretaries, Madeleine Albright and Bill Cohen, wrote in their recently released Genocide Prevention Task Force report, 'We must honor the memory of past victims by encouraging future action. Preventing genocide is possible and striving to do so is imperative.'"