Starting Date: 03-29-2007
Starting Time: 9:30am
Rutgers School Of Law-Newark, Baker Trial Room
123 Washington Street
Newark, New Jersey 07102
United States
212-818-1815Rutgers School of Law-Newark
Global Legal Studies Program
International Law Society &
Global Action to Prevent War
Invite you to attend
Preventing Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity:
Diverse Perspectives on a Standing, Rapid-Reaction UN Emergency Peace Service
Thursday, March 29, 2007 (9:30 AM – 5PM)
Rutgers School of Law-Newark
123 Washington Street
Baker Trial Courtroom
Despite the longstanding need to address threats of genocide and crimes against humanity, the United Nations still has no reliable and rapidly deployable mechanism to protect the lives of civilians. The Rwandan genocide is only one of the tragedies that illustrate this incapacity, as are the massive killings in Cambodia, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, East Timor, the Darfur Region in Sudan and elsewhere.
A growing global movement of students, citizens groups, academics, government officials and UN agencies is coming together to create a permanent UN Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) to ensure that the tools and capacities are in place to prevent the next humanitarian disaster. A service like UNEPS could have prevented many of the atrocities that have killed millions of innocent people, wounded millions more, forced tens of millions from their homes, destroyed entire economies, and wasted hundreds of billions of dollars. As a complement to other national, regional, and United Nations efforts, a UN-based Emergency Peace Service could provide immediate, stabilizing protection in some crises while serving as an advanced, integrated capacity that could lay the groundwork for subsequent peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations. The proposed service would consist of highly trained, individually recruited personnel with a wide range of skills, including civilian police, judicial experts, military, and humanitarian assistance professionals.
A full roster of global civil society leaders and academic experts are scheduled to speak, including:
Sir Brian Urquhart, Fmr. UN Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs
Dr. Lois Barber, Director, EarthAction
Dr. Alcides Costa Vaz, Director, Institute of International Relations, Brazil
Stephanie Nyombayire, Representative, Genocide Intervention Network
Dr. Hussein Solomon, Director, Centre for International Political Studies, South Africa
For a final agenda and directions to this event, please contact Waverly de Bruijn at: coordinator@globalactionpw.org, ph: (212) 818-1815
See www.globalactionpw.org for updates and more information.
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