The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on:
What is the Responsibility to Protect?
Friday, 17 September 2010, 09.00-16.30
Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K
Background
The seminar is held to mark the five-year anniversary for the Follow-up to the Millennium Summit. In two paragraphs of the 2005 World Summit Outcome, the UN gave formal expression to the norm of responsibility to protect (R2P). In this document, R2P is defined as the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. It is a responsibility that belongs to each individual state to protect its own populations, and well as a responsibility that belongs to the international community.
The last five years have witnessed major political and intellectual debates about the meaning and viability of R2P. What does the commitment to R2P add to existing protections against mass violence and violations of human rights? What implications does this norm carry for decisions about humanitarian intervention vs. non-intervention? What implications does R2P have for the concepts and practices of national sovereignty? What implications does this norm have for ‘fragile states’? And what implications does R2P have for the protection of civilian populations?
The seminar will draw attention to the principled debates about R2P, its historical contexts, successes and failures, and directions for the future. Speakers are experts in the field from the U.S., Europe, and the Nordic countries.
For more information on R2P click here.
Speakers
Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute of International Studies, where he is co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project. Past president of the International Studies Association and past chair of the Academic Council of the UN System, his latest books are What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (2009), UN Ideas That Changed the World (2009), and Global Governance and the UN (2010). Weiss was Research Director for the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty which wrote the report The Responsibility to Protect.
Oliver Jütersonke is Head of Research at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and Research Fellow at the Zurich University Centre for Ethics (ZUCE).
He has recently published Morgenthau, Law and Realism (2010).
David Kendal is Deputy Head of Department, Department of International Law, Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Lecturer, International Law, University of Copenhagen. His publications include ’Mod en mindre statscentreret international retsorden - nogle udviklingstendenser’ i Enhver stats pligt ... International strafferet og dansk ret, Lars Plum & Andreas Laursen (red.), ’Internationale militære operationer og menneskerettigheder’ med Ulf Melgaard i Menneskerettighedsdomstolen - 50 års samspil med dansk ret og politik, Jonas Christoffersen og Mikael Rask (red.).
Diana Amnéus, LL.D. is Senior Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University. Her publications include, Responsibility to Protect by Military Means: Emerging Norms on Humanitarian Intervention?(2008), Peace and Security – Current Challenges to International Law, co-editor with Katinka Svanberg Torpman (2004), Responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide. A right to humanitarian intervention (2009), Swedish State Practice 2004-2005: Responsibility to Protect, NJIL, Vol 75 (2006) p. 311, “Responsibility to Protect – mäns skyldighet att skydda män? Genusperspektiv på säkerhet”, in Göran Gunner & Anders Mellbourn (Eds), Mänskliga rättigheter och samhällets skyldigheter (2005).
Programme
09.00-09.10 Welcome
Karsten Jakob Møller, Major General/Senior Analyst, DIIS
09.10-10.55 Political Innovations and R2P
Thomas G. Weiss, Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International
Studies, New York, US
Discussant: Tonny Brems Knudsen, Associate Professor, University of Aarhus,
Denmark
10.55-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.30 Responsibility and the Fragile State: Conceptual Reflections
Oliver Jütersonke, Head of Research, CCDP, Geneva, Switzerland
Discussant: Louise Andersen, PhD Candidate, DIIS
12.30-13.15 Sandwich Lunch
13.15-14.30 R2P as a Legal Norm
David Kendal, Deputy Head of Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Denmark
Discussant: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Project Researcher, DIIS
14.30-14.50 Coffee break
14.50-16.05 R2P, Protection of Civilians and Resolution 1325 – Poorly
Coordinated Security Frameworks?
Diana Amnéus, Senior Researcher, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund,
Sweden
Discussant: Rens van Munster, Senior Researcher, DIIS
16.05-16.35 Concluding Panel Discussion
Chair: Robin May Schott, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Practical Information
The seminar will be held in English.
Participation is free of charge and includes lunch. Registration is required. Please use our below online registration form no later than Wednesday, 15 September 2010 at 12.00 noon.
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