Emerging Powers and the Responsibility to Protect

Speaker: 
Ramesh Thakur
 
01 Oct 2013
 
8:00 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Ramesh Thakur, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, currently directs the Centre for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament at Australian National University. He has held academic positions in Australia, New Zealand and Canada; advised the Australian and New Zealand governments on arms control and international security issues; and served as UN Senior Adviser on Reforms as well Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo. He was a principal author of the 2001 Responsibility to Protect report, which the UN later adopted as guiding principles for the prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity. Thakur is coeditor of the newly released Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, the author of more than thirty books, and writes regularly for the international press. Part of the World Affairs Series

Educated in India and Canada, Ramesh Thakur was a professor of International Relations at the University of Otago in New Zealand and professor and head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University. He was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo (2007–11), Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (2007–10) and Foundation Director of the Balsillie School of International affairs in Waterloo, Ontario. He serves on the international advisory boards of institutes in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. His most recent books include: [i]The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect[/i], 2006 [i]Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey[/i], co-written with Thomas G. Weiss, 2010 [i]The Responsibility to Protect: Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in International Politics[/i], 2011 [i]The People vs. the State: Reflections on UN Authority, US Power and the Responsibility to Protect[/i], 2011 [b]This event was supported by the U.S. Institute of Peace Public Education for Peacebuilding Support Initiative.[/b]