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Keynote Address: Protecting Civilians in Turbulent Times

February 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Professor Jennifer M. Welsh is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University in Montreal. She was previously Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. From 2013-2016, she served as the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, on the Responsibility to Protect.

Professor Welsh is the author, co-author, and editor of several books and articles on humanitarian intervention, the evolution of the notion of the ‘responsibility to protect’ in international society, the UN Security Council, and Canadian foreign policy. Her most recent books include The Return of History: Conflict, Migration and Geopolitics in the 21st Century (2016), which was based on her CBC Massey Lectures, and The Responsibility to Prevent: Overcoming the Challenges of Atrocity Prevention (2015). She was a former recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship and a Trudeau Fellowship, and from 2014-2019 has directed a five-year European Research Council-funded project called “The Individualisation of War: Reconfiguring the Ethics, Law and Politics of Armed Conflict”. She is also a frequent media commentator on international affairs and Canadian foreign policy.

For further details, contact Timothy Donais at tdonais@wlu.ca or Sophie Greco at sgreco@balsillieschool.ca.

UN Photo Sylvain Liechti

Photo credit: UN Photo - Sylvain Liechti

Details

Date:
February 6
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Venue

Room 1-42
67 Erb Street West
Waterloo, ON N2L 6C2 Canada
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