"Humanitarian Intervention After 9/11," the Wisconsin International Law Journal’s 2006 symposium, will be held Friday, March 31, 2006, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 2260 of the University of Wisconsin Law School. The event is free and open to the public, with registration recommended (e-mail to uwsymp@gmail.com).
Issues to be discussed will include:
What lessons were learned from Rwanda and Bosnia?
How have the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq changed the terms of the debate over the use of military force to stop genocide?
Why has the international response to the crisis in Darfur been so ineffective?
Guest participants will include:
Gareth Evans , former Australian Foreign Minister and current President of the International Crisis Group (ICG).
Michel Feher , publisher and author of Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community (Duke).
Jerry Fowler, head of the Committee on Conscience at the Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C.
Jeremy I. Levitt , Professor at Florida International University College of Law and author of The Evolution of Deadly Conflict in Liberia: From 'Paternaltarianism' to State Collapse (Carolina Academic Press).
Jon Pevehouse, Associate Professor of Political Science, UW-Madison, and author of Democracy from Above: Regional Organizations and Democratization (Cambridge).
Fernando Teson , Professor at Florida State University College of Law and author of numerous works on humanitarian intervention, including Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality, 3rd Ed. (Transnational).
Ben Valentino , Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, and author of Final Solutions: The Causes of Mass Killing and Genocide (Cornell).
Thomas G. Weiss , Professor of Political Science and Director at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
The Symposium is sponsored by the Global Studies Program, the Humanitarian and World Order Research Circle, the Global Legal Studies Initiative, and the Wisconsin International Law Journal. It is cosponsored by the African Studies Program and the Department of Political Science.
Submitted by on March 29, 2006
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