In the Face of Mass Murder and Atrocities: What Should America Do?
Ambassador Richard S. Williamson, Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies
Tuesday, March 9, at 4pm
Guild Lounge, Scott Hall, 601 University Pl., Evanston
As the 20th Century came to a close, mass atrocities and ethnic killing seemed to take place at a quickening pace. The Cambodian Killing Fields. Rwanda. Bosnia. Kosovo. Now Eastern Congo and Darfur. How should America act? What is the “responsibility to protect”? And how can America act with the international community to give meaning to the pledge: Never Again?
Ambassador Williamson recently completed an assignment as the President’s Special Envoy to Sudan. His many diplomatic posts have included serving as Ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna and to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. He is editor of three books and author of over 180 articles and seven books, most recently American Primacy and Multilateral Cooperation.
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