FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2008
4:30 PM
008 BRADLEY LECTURE HALL, KEMENY CENTER
FREE PUBLIC EVENT
Wheelchair acessible and Assistive Listening Devices available

THE RESPONSIBLIITY TO PROTECT WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO KOSOVO

When does the international community need to intervene to protect those who are denied protection by their own government. Ambassador Jones Parry  and Professor Luckwill set out the background to the concept, assess its acceptance within the community of nations, suggest a pragmatic way forward, and then consider in detail the case of Kosovo, historically and looking forward.

AMBASSADOR EMYR PARRY JONES
Sir Emyr Jones Parry is a British diplomat. He is a former British Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) and former UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council (NATO). He took over as Permanent Representative in NATO in September 2001, and held the position until 2003, whereupon he became the Permanent Representative of the UK on the UN Security Council in New York. In 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the 'All-Wales Convention' - a body established by the Welsh Assembly Government to review Wales's constitutional arrangements and in particular to spearhead the campaign to increase the powers of the Assembly to a full legislative parliament similar to the Scottish Parliament. In July 2007, it was announced the Jones Parry would be appointed President of Aberystwyth University, succeeding Lord Elystan Morgan on 1 January 2008.

EDWARD C. LUCK
Edward C. Luck is Senior Vice President and Director of Studies at the International Peace Academy and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General, in which capacity he primarily focuses on the responsibility to protect.  He is currently on public service leave as Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, where he remains Director of the Center on International Organization.  A past President and CEO of the United Nations Association of the USA, he has served the UN in a variety of capacities, taught at Princeton and Sciences-Po (Paris), and founded a research center co-sponsored by the NYU School of Law and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School.  Professor Luck's most recent books include The UN Security Council: Practice and Promise (Routledge, 2006), International Law and Organization: Closing the Compliance Gap, co-edited with Michael W. Doyle (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), and Mixed Messages: American Politics and International Organization, 1919-1999 (Brookings, 1999).  

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