This month’s meeting will feature remarks by Professors Doug Irvin-Erickson of George Mason University and Ernesto Verdeja of the University of Notre Dame drawn from their soon-to-be-published “Assessment of the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect”. USIP’s Shane Goetz will also walk us through a paper he is completing for APSG entitled “Impunity for Starvation Crimes: Lessons Learned from Tigray”. Gwen Whidden,a Student Staff Editor at Just Security and a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the University at Oxford, and Lisa Sharland, Senior Fellow and Director of Stimson’s Protecting Civilians & Human Security program, have agreed to serve as commentators. This APSG meeting will take place just days ahead of the UN Security Council’s annual consideration of the ‘Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict’ agenda item, and the annual ‘POC week’ in New York when member states, the UN secretariat, civil society organizations and think tanks (including the Stimson Center) host a series of side events to strengthen efforts to protect civilians and implement existing commitments.
Presenters:
- Doug Irvin-Erickson, George Mason University
- Ernesto Verdeja, University of Notre Dame
- Shane Goetz, United States Institute of Peace
Moderator:
- Jim Finkel, Stimson Nonresident Fellow