HISTORIC "RIGHT TO PROTECT" (R2P) DOCTRINE EXPLORED AT TWO DAY SYMPOSIUM AT BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW ON MARCH 10 & 11
Harold Koh, Dean of Yale Law School; Edward C. Luck, U.N. Special Advisor for R2P; Knut Vollabaek, OSCE High Commisioner of National Minorities, and Former Foreign Minister of Norway; and Ramesh Thakur, ICISS Commissioner Among Top Scholars and Leaders of International Relations and Human Rights to Speak at Symposium
Top scholars and leaders from international organizations, civil society groups, governments, and the academic community from around the world will convene in a two-day conference, R2P: The Responsibility to Protect: A Framework for Confronting Identity-based Atrocities, at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (55 Fifth Ave @ 12th Street) on March 10 & 11, beginning each day at 8:30 a.m.
Among those giving presentations at the symposium are Harold Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, Edward C. Luck, U.N. Special Advisor for Responsibility to Protect and Vice President and Director of Studies, International Peace Academy; Knut Vollebaek, former foreign minister of Norway; Ramesh Thakur, Distinguished Fellow, Center
International Governance Innovation, University of Waterloo, and International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) Commissioner; Donald Steinberg, Vice President for Multilateral Affairs, International Crisis Group and Aryeh Neier, President of the Open Society Institute.
This groundbreaking conference, presented by Cardozo's Program in Holocaust and Human Rights studies and the Department of Political Science, Yeshiva University will explore the application of the historic Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, which requires that when a state is either unwilling or unable to fulfill its responsibility to protect its own populations, UN member states are obligated to take action to minimize human suffering. Since 150 world leaders embraced R2P during the U.N.'s 60th Anniversary World Summit in 2005, the international community has struggled to act on or even decide when it is facing an R2P situation. This symposium aims to assist in clarifying the contours of the R2P doctrine ultimately seeking to increase the likelihood of meaningful protection of vulnerable populations before, during and after conflict.
The symposium will be presented in partnership with the International Crisis Group, Minority Rights Group International, Institute for the Study of Genocide, and the Institute for Global Policy.
Generous support was received from Humanity United and the Darian & Rick Swig Philanthropic Fund.
FOR A DESCRIPTION OF THE CONFERENCE AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION SEE WWW.YU.EDU/r2pcONFE RENCE
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