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Start Date & Time
September 21, 2009
1:00
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End Date & Time
September 21, 2009
3:00
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Location
Online.
Event Cost
Free
Event URL
http://www.usip.org/events/m...
RSVP Info
Name: United States Institute Of Peace
Webpage: http://www.usip.org/events/m...
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The United States Institute of Peace will host a public event to help launch a new report from the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), based at Concordia University, Mobilizing the Will to Intervene: Leadership and Action to Prevent Mass Atrocities.
The report is the product of the Will to Intervene (W2I) Project, a research initiative created by Lieut. General (retired) Roméo Dallaire and Professor Frank Chalk, Director of MIGS, and led by Kyle Matthews, which aims to operationalize the principles of the Responsibility to Protect. More than 80 interviews were conducted with high-level policy makers, members of Congress, NGO representatives, and journalists, some for the first time on record. Drawing on the lessons learned from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and the 1999 Kosovo crisis, the report will make key recommendations to government officials, legislators, civil society and the media in the United States and Canada to generate the political will to prevent mass atrocities.
Prof. Chalk will briefly introduce the report's findings, followed by a panel discussion with Gen. Dallaire and former senior U.S. government officials on the report’s policy proposals and the challenges of mobilizing the domestic will in the U.S. to prevent mass atrocities.
Speakers
Lieut. General (retired) Roméo Dallaire
Senior Fellow, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies; Co-Director, Will to Intervene Project
Michael Gerson
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Global Engagement
Andrew Natsios
Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service
John Prendergast
Co-founder, the Enough Project
Tara Sonenshine, Opening Remarks
Executive Vice President, U.S. Institute of Peace
James Traub, Moderator
Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine
For further information on the W2I Project and to download a copy of the report (available on 21 September), please visit http://migs.concordia.ca
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Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS)
MIGS' approach is comparative and historical and involves scholars in Canada, France, Great Britain, Israel, and the United States. Through its Occasional Paper Series and its web site, it collects and disseminates knowledge created by researchers about the historical origins of the mass killings...
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