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12 June, 2008
CAN GENOCIDE BE PREVENTED? Potential of the UN
Time: 12 June 2008 - 3pm - 5pm
Location: Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium, United Nations Headquarters, New York.
Watch the interview with Dr. Francis Deng, Special Advisor of the Secretary-General for the Prevention of Genocide.
Join Dr. David Hamburg, DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar at Weill Cornell Medical College, as he explores the root causes of genocide, how it can be prevented and an overview of what the UN has done and can do to prevent genocide.
Dr. Robert Orr, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning,
Dr. Francis Deng, Special Advisor of the Secretary-General for the Prevention of Genocide, will join the discussion with commentary and moderation by Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud, Head, United Nations University, Office at the UN, New York.
Agenda
3:00pm Introduction and Welcome
Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud
3:10pm Can Genocide be Prevented? Potential of the UN
Dr. David Hamburg
3:40pm Moving from Theory to Practice
Dr. Robert Orr
3:45 Who has primary responsibility genocide prevention mission at the UN?
Dr. Francis Deng
Dr. David Hamburg, M.D., is DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is President Emeritus of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where he served as President from 1982 to 1997. A medical doctor, Hamburg has a long history of leadership in the research, medical, and psychiatric fields. He has been Professor at Stanford University and Harvard University as well as President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.
He was a member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board with Secretary of Defense William Perry and Co-chair with former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.
He was a member of President Bill Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. Most recently, Dr. Hamburg chaired two parallel committees at the United Nations and European Union on the prevention of genocide--one reporting directly to the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the other to Javier Solana.
Dr. Hamburg received the Foreign Policy Association's Medal, the Sarnat Mental Health Award of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal (its highest award), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest civilian award of the United States).
Dr. Francis Deng is Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide.
Mr. Deng is currently Director of the Sudan Peace Support Project based at the United States Institute of Peace. He is also a Wilhelm Fellow at the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a research professor of international politics, law and society at Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
Before joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Deng was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the John Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. Mr. Deng served as Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons from 1992 to 2004, and from 2002 to 2003 was also a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace.
Mr. Deng served as Human Rights Officer in the United Nations Secretariat from 1967 to 1972 and as the Ambassador of the Sudan to Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the United States. He also served as the Sudan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. After leaving his country's service, he was appointed the first Rockefeller Brothers Fund Distinguished Fellow.
He was at the Woodrow Wilson International Center first as a guest scholar and then as a senior research associate, after which he joined the Brookings Institution as a senior fellow, where he founded and directed the Africa Project for 12 years. He was then appointed distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York before joining Johns Hopkins University.
Among his numerous awards in his country and abroad, Mr. Deng is co-recipient with Roberta Cohen of the 2005 Grawemeyer Award for "Ideas Improving World Order" and the 2007 Merage Foundation American Dream Leadership Award. In 2000, Mr. Deng also received the Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action.
Mr. Deng holds a Bachelor of Laws from Khartoum University and a Master of Laws and a Doctor of the Science of Law from Yale University, and has authored and edited over 30 books in the fields of law, conflict resolution, internal displacement, human rights, anthropology, folklore, history and politics and has also written two novels on the theme of the crisis of national identity in the Sudan. He was born in 1938.
In a continuing effort to strengthen the United Nations' role in this area, the Secretary-General has asked Mr. Deng to devote full time to this position. The Secretary-General will continue to look at additional ways to enhance the capacity of the Office of the Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide.
On a related note, the Secretary-General is also exploring ways to strengthen United Nations efforts on the responsibility to protect, which may include the appointment of a separate adviser.
Dr. Robert C. Orr was appointed Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.
Dr. Orr comes to the United Nations from Harvard University where he served as the Executive Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to this, he served as Director of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.
From 1996 to 2001, Dr. Orr served in senior posts in the Government of the United States, including Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Director of the USUN Washington office, where he was instrumental in securing an agreement to have the United States pay its arrears to the United Nations. He also served as Director of Global and Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council, where he was responsible for peacekeeping and humanitarian affairs. Prior to this government service, Dr. Orr worked for the International Peace Academy in New York, and with non-governmental organizations in Nairobi, Kenya, with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Orr co-directed a bipartisan commission on post-conflict reconstruction sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and the Association of the United States Army.
Dr. Orr has published extensively on post-conflict reconstruction, the United Nations, peacekeeping, and democracy promotion. His publications include Winning the Peace: an American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction (CSIS Press, 2004) and Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional UN Operations in Cambodia and El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Dr. Orr received his Ph.D. and M.P.A. in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and his bachelor's degree from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Head of the United Nations University, Office at the United Nations, New York.
He was Senior Academic Officer in the Peace and Governance Programme at UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996). A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee), Associate Professor at the University of Paris, and Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has also taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). He has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.), and a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. In addition, He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics.
Jean-Marc Coicaud is the author of L'introuvable démocratie autoritaire (1996), Politics and Legitimacy. A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002) (also available in French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic). He co-authored (with Charles A. Kupchan, Emmanuel Adler, and Yuen Foong Khong) Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (United Nations University Press, 2001). He co-edited, with Daniel Warner, Ethics and International Affairs: Extent and Limits (UNU Press, 2001), with Veijo Heiskanen, The Legitimacy of International Organizations (UNU Press, 2001), and with Michael W. Doyle and Anne-Marie Gardner, The Globalization of Human Rights (UNU Press, 2003). In 2006 he will publish Beyond the National Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press), The Politics of International Solidarity (in Japanese with Fujiwara Shoten, and in Chinese with SDX Joint Publishing Company), as well as a co-edited volume, with Daniel A. Bell, Ethics in Action (Cambridge University Press).
Jean-Marc Coicaud is a member of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council for the United Nations Systems (ACUNS) and he serves as an adviser for the Fondation pour l'innovation politique (Paris).
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