“The Responsibility to Protect: preventing and halting mass atrocity crimes”
Mónica Serrano
Luncheon on May 25, 2011
11:30am at the Solomon Ortiz Convention Center
The Responsibility to Protect refers to the obligation of states toward their populations and toward all populations at risk of genocide and other large-scale atrocities. The Global Centre's mission is to help transform the principle of the responsibility to protect into a cause for action in the face of those mass atrocities. The Centre engages in advocacy around specific crises; originates and sponsors research designed to further understanding of R2P; recommends and supports strategies to consolidate the norm and help states build capacity; and works closely with NGOs, governments and regional bodies which are seeking to promote and operationalize the responsibility to protect.
Monica Serrano is Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. She is Professor of International Relations at El Colegio de México and a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies, Oxford University.
After gaining her D. Phil from Oxford, she was a Research Fellow and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, a Research Associate at the IISS, and a MacArthur Research Fellow at Oxford University´s Centre for International Studies.
She has written extensively on international security, and the international relations of Latin America, with particular reference to international institutions, security, human rights, transnational crime and civil-military relations.
Dr Serrano is the author and editor of numerous publications including Transnational Organised Crime and International Security: Business as Usual? (Lynne Rienner, 2002); Regionalism and Governance in the Americas: Continental Drift (Palgrave, 2005); Human Rights Regimes in the Americas (UNU Press, 2009) and Transitional Justice and Democratic Consolidation: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective (UNU Forthcoming). She is a member of the editorial board of Global Responsibility to Protect and the Journal Conflict, Security and Development as well as an editor of the Routledge Book Series Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect.
Website: http://globalr2p.org/
The $5.00 discounted price for early registration of $25 for members and active duty military in uniform, $32.50 for non members, and $18 for students, ends at noon Monday, May 23. Normal prices are $5 more. The event will take place at 11:30 at the Ortiz Center. All reservations must be pre-paid. For reservations and/or membership information, call 361.241.2018 or mail your check to World Affairs Council, PO Box 260096, Corpus Christi TX 78426. |
