Protecting populations at risk: whose responsibility is it?

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Event	Protecting populations at risk: whose responsibility is it?
When	Thursday, March 17, 2011 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Where	Riggs Library
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Details	The Twenty-ninth Jit Trainor Award for Distinction in the Conduct of Diplomacy 'Protecting populations at risk: whose responsibility is it?' Featuring the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Francis Deng Francis Deng is Special Adviser of the UN Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. A distinguished scholar and diplomat, Dr. Deng was formerly the UNSG Representative on Internally Displaced Persons. Earlier in his career, served with the United Nations Secretariat, was the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Sudan, and Sudan’s Ambassador to several countries, including Canada and the United States. A distinguished scholar of law, conflict resolution, displacement and human rights, Dr. Deng taught at Johns Hopkins University and the City University of New York, and has been a fellow at the US Institute of Peace, the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and the Brookings Institution. A recipient of the Grawemeyer Award and the Merage Foundation American Dream Leadership Award, Dr. Deng also received the Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action. Dr. Deng holds a Bachelor of Laws from Khartoum University and Doctor of the Science of Law from Yale University. He has authored and edited more than thirty scholarly books as well as two novels about the crisis of national identify in the Sudan. RSVP here: https://www12.georgetown.edu/sfs/rsvp/index.cfm?program=ISD
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Contact	kss58@georgetown.edu
Sponsors	Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
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