Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities: International Law and the Responsibility to Protect
Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
The program will address challenges within the existing international legal framework for the prevention of mass atrocities, with a particular focus on the limitations of international law to compel states to act, and the moral imperative for a way forward.
Moderator:
Elizabeth Barad, International Law and Gender Consultant; Co-chair, Committee on African Affairs
Speakers: Dr. Simon Adams, Executive Director, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect; Adama Dieng, Special Adviser, UN Secretary-General for the Prevention of Genocide; Sheri Rosenberg, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Program in Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies; Director, Human Rights and Genocide Clinic, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Sponsored by: Committee on African Affairs, Elizabeth Barad, Chair; Committee on United Nations, Ulysses S. Grant, Chair; Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice; Committee on International Human Rights, Elizabeth Wickeri, Chair
Event is free
Speakers: Dr. Simon Adams, Executive Director, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect; Adama Dieng, Special Adviser, UN Secretary-General for the Prevention of Genocide; Sheri Rosenberg, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Program in Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies; Director, Human Rights and Genocide Clinic, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Sponsored by: Committee on African Affairs, Elizabeth Barad, Chair; Committee on United Nations, Ulysses S. Grant, Chair; Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice; Committee on International Human Rights, Elizabeth Wickeri, Chair
Event is free
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