Roundtable on the Future of Intervention

Meetings

Guest Event

Preventing Mass Atrocities

Speaker: Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations
June 8, 2007

In 2005, the members of the United Nations embraced the idea of a “responsibility to protect” populations from genocide and other mass atrocities. Join us as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour discusses the role her office plays in helping states and the international community fulfill this responsibility. Having recently returned from a visit to Burundi, the Democratic RepublicofCongo, and Rwanda, she will talk about her office’s fieldwork there, as well as share her thoughts on the work of the UN Human Rights Council.

**Please note special time and location.**

11:00 - 11:30 a.m. Reception
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Meeting

Roundtable Meeting

Roundtable on the Future of Intervention: Is UN Peacekeeping the Best Possible or the Minimum Necessary?

Speaker: Jane Holl Lute, Assistant Secretary-General for Mission Support, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations
April 27, 2007
Roundtable Meeting

Roundtable on the Future of Intervention: How to Keep From Overselling or Underestimating the United Nations

Speakers: Mark P. Lagon, Bureau for International Organizations, U.S. Department of State
Joshua Muravchik, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
David Shorr, Program Officer, The Stanley Foundation
April 17, 2007