The Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary General will share his insights on the global effort to prevent genocide and mass atrocities at a public lecture hosted by the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect at UQ next week.
Professor Edward Luck, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies of the International Peace Institute, will lecture on “The Future of the Responsibility to Protect”.
The International Peace Institute is an independent, international institution dedicated to promoting the prevention and settlement of armed conflicts between and within states through policy research and development.
In February 2008, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed Professor Luck as Special Adviser and Assistant Secretary General, in which capacity he primarily focuses on the responsibility to protect.
From December 1995 through to July 1997, Professor Luck played a key role in the United Nations reform process as a senior consultant to the Department of Administration and Management of the United Nations and as a staff director of the General Assembly’s Open-Ended high-Level Working Group on the Strengthening of the United Nations System.
The Responsibility to Protect was adopted unanimously by world leaders at the 2005 World Summit in New York and was reaffirmed by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 1674 (2006).
Each individual state has the responsibility to protect its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. This responsibility entails the prevention of such crimes, including their incitement, through appropriate and necessary means.
Professor Luck’s public lecture will be held in the Conference Room (Level 1) of the Duhig Building (2), Campbell Drive, St Lucia campus on August 3 from 5-6.30pm.
Media: Marie Hobman at the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (07 3346 6449 or m.hobman@uq.edu.au)
