"Emerging threats to peace and security - 2013 and beyond" - Public Lecture
21/Jan/13 11:45 Filed in: CSTPV Seminar Series
7th February 2013
12 noon, Parliament Hall
ALL WELCOME
Biography
Louise Arbour is the President & CEO of International Crisis Group (since 2009).
Named by Time Magazine in 2004 as one of the world's 100 most influential people, a Canadian national, Ms. Arbour began an academic career in 1974 at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto. In December 1987 she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Ontario, and in 1990 to the Court of Appeal for Ontario. In 1995, as Commissioner of an inquiry into the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario, she produced a report which accelerated the move towards modern institutions specifically designed to meet the security and programming needs of women inmates.
In 1996, Ms. Arbour was appointed by the Security Council of the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. After three years as Prosecutor, she resigned to take up an appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada. Louise Arbour served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2004-2008).
Ms. Arbour has received 39 honorary degrees and is affiliated with many distinguished professional societies and organisations. In 2009, she became a member of the Advisory Board for the 2011 World Bank Development Report: 'Conflict, Security and Development'; in 2010, she joined the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security; and in April 2011, became a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy.
Ms. Arbour is a Companion of the Order of Canada (2007) and a Grande Officière de l'Ordre national du Quebec (2009). She is the recipient of numerous medals and awards, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Freedom from Fear Award (2000) and the French Legion of Honour (2010). Alongside former President of Brazil Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, Ms. Arbour received the North-South Prize of the Council of Europe in March 2011.
Abstract
Louise Arbour will talk on emerging threats to global security in the coming year and beyond. These will be geographical, including both the obvious, such as Syria and Iran, and those less subject to exposure, for example Central Asia. But they will also include the more conceptual or overarching. What challenges does the emerging multipolarity in the international community present to global security and, conversely, what opportunities? How can new technologies -- the use of drones, for example; or outdated rhetoric -- such as the 'war on terror' impact on our collective wellbeing? How can the risks be effectively mitigated? And, finally, Ms. Arbour will reflect on whether we live in a world in which the normative primacy of justice for egregious behaviour is unassailable or whether, in fact, the age-old tension between the long-term goal of justice, on the one hand, and the short-terms imperatives of peace are more at odds with each other than ever before.
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12 noon, Parliament Hall
ALL WELCOME
Biography
Louise Arbour is the President & CEO of International Crisis Group (since 2009).
Named by Time Magazine in 2004 as one of the world's 100 most influential people, a Canadian national, Ms. Arbour began an academic career in 1974 at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto. In December 1987 she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Ontario, and in 1990 to the Court of Appeal for Ontario. In 1995, as Commissioner of an inquiry into the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario, she produced a report which accelerated the move towards modern institutions specifically designed to meet the security and programming needs of women inmates.
In 1996, Ms. Arbour was appointed by the Security Council of the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. After three years as Prosecutor, she resigned to take up an appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada. Louise Arbour served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2004-2008).
Ms. Arbour has received 39 honorary degrees and is affiliated with many distinguished professional societies and organisations. In 2009, she became a member of the Advisory Board for the 2011 World Bank Development Report: 'Conflict, Security and Development'; in 2010, she joined the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security; and in April 2011, became a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy.
Ms. Arbour is a Companion of the Order of Canada (2007) and a Grande Officière de l'Ordre national du Quebec (2009). She is the recipient of numerous medals and awards, including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Freedom from Fear Award (2000) and the French Legion of Honour (2010). Alongside former President of Brazil Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, Ms. Arbour received the North-South Prize of the Council of Europe in March 2011.
Abstract
Louise Arbour will talk on emerging threats to global security in the coming year and beyond. These will be geographical, including both the obvious, such as Syria and Iran, and those less subject to exposure, for example Central Asia. But they will also include the more conceptual or overarching. What challenges does the emerging multipolarity in the international community present to global security and, conversely, what opportunities? How can new technologies -- the use of drones, for example; or outdated rhetoric -- such as the 'war on terror' impact on our collective wellbeing? How can the risks be effectively mitigated? And, finally, Ms. Arbour will reflect on whether we live in a world in which the normative primacy of justice for egregious behaviour is unassailable or whether, in fact, the age-old tension between the long-term goal of justice, on the one hand, and the short-terms imperatives of peace are more at odds with each other than ever before.
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