A/HRC/10/30 page 16 40. The office of the Special Adviser has used its inventory of the information sources available to the United Nations to identify the resources most relevant to the Special Adviser’s own monitoring and analysis and to ensure the most efficient and effective forms of monitoring. An information management officer in the office is responsible for maintaining contacts with counterparts in operational departments and in ensuring that the Special Adviser is briefed on any emerging concerns promptly. C. Participation in conferences, workshops and outreach activities 41. The Special Adviser and his staff have endeavoured to participate in international and regional conferences relevant to the prevention of genocide, using such opportunities to learn from the experiences of others and to increase awareness of the mandate. The Special Adviser, or his staff, participated in events in Addis Ababa, Buenos Aires, London, Oslo, Vienna, Sheffield and Washington D.C., in addition to a number of events held in New York. The conferences and workshops were dedicated to issues such as the prevention of genocide in Africa; the comprehensiveness of existing law regarding the prevention of genocide; links between the responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide; and indicators for predicting genocide. 42. On 21 January 2009, pursuant to a request of the Human Rights Council in its resolution 7/25, OHCHR organized in Geneva a seminar on the prevention of genocide. With human rights experts drawn from Member States, the United Nations and civil society, the seminar considered (a) the roles of special procedures and human rights treaty bodies in the prevention of genocide, asking if there was a prevention gap; and (b) the role of the legal and judicial systems in the prevention and punishment of genocide, asking what progress had been made to date. D. Office capacity 43. In its authorization for the 2008 budgetary year, the General Assembly established additional posts for the Special Adviser. The office is currently staffed by five Professional Officers (two covered by extra-budgetary resources), two General Services staff and one Junior Professional Officer. IV. CONCLUSIONS 44. On 9 December 2008, on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Secretary-General issued a statement noting that the work of the United Nations in preventing genocide encompassed a wide range of activities. In the broadest sense, the United Nations promotes human rights, the rule of law and the fundamental equality of all people. Through its global presence, the Organization provides practical assistance to States in building democratic institutions and resolving disputes through peaceful means. It has now established the office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. In 2005, Member States agreed unanimously on a new, groundbreaking global norm, the responsibility to protect (for the operationalization of which the Secretary-General has appointed another special adviser, as mentioned above). In addition, the United Nations also seeks to ensure that perpetrators of genocide are brought to justice promptly. Justice is not only one of our main goals; it is itself an important means of prevention.