Key tool developed by the Office to assess the risk of atrocity crimes as well as atrocity prevention capacities and strategies. The Office encourages its use by international, regional and national actors.

The Plan of Action is intended to be a programmatic tool. It aims at informing and advising the work of religious leaders and actors, as well as other relevant players, and providing options and recommendations for ways in which they can contribute to preventing incitement to violence.

Hate speech has been known to stigmatize, marginalize, enable discrimination as well as incite hate crimes and large-scale violence. Genocide and Holocaust denial is often tied to hate speech, specifically when the aim is to target individuals or groups based on specific identity factors.