2008 - Gareth Evans - The Responsibility to Protect: An Idea Whose Time has Come… And Gone?
Gareth Evans and Nicholas Wheeler
23 April 2008
The Responsibility to Protect: An Idea Whose Time has Come… And Gone? - The Hon. Gareth Evans, AO QC
Watch the video recording (.wmv file)
The lecture was published in the September 2008 issue of International Relations (Vol. 22, #3, pp. 283-298). A direct link to download a pdf version from Sage publications is available here.
Gareth Evans is President and Chief Executive of the International Crisis Group and former Australian Foreign Minister (1988-1996). He is best known internationally for his roles in helping to develop the UN peace plan for Cambodia, concluding the international Chemical Weapons Convention, founding the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), and initiating the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
In regard to this lecture, he was co-chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty which developed the concept of the responsibility to protect in its 2001 report.
The Institute wishes to express its appreciation to the Gwendoline and Margaret Davies Charity for funding this year’s annual lecture.
From left to right: Professor Colin McInnes (Head of Department, International Politics); Hon. Gareth Evans; Professor Noel Lloyd (Vice Chancellor of Aberystwyth University; Professor Nicholas J. Wheeler (Director, DDMI)