PAST EVENT

Justice as Prevention of Mass Atrocities

Seminar
Series: Carr Center Event
Open to the Public - Malkin Penthouse, Littauer 4th Floor
November 2, 2009
1:30-3:30 p.m.

Description:

Professor Mendez will discuss the efforts of the international community
to learn from past failures and establish an effective system of prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities, from the perspective of his past role as the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the UN on the Prevention of Genocide. He will examine the Responsibility to Protect and its present status in
international law, with a view to considering whether it makes an effective contribution to prevention. Finally he will also discuss the current machinery of international criminal justice from the perspective of how it can help prevent the crimes under the jurisdiction of the various courts.


Juan E. Mendez is a Visiting Professor of Law at the American University Washington College of Law, and an adviser on crime prevention to the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court. Until May of this year he was the President of the International Center for Transnational Justice (ICTJ) and in the summer of 2009 he was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation in New York. Concurrent with his duties at ICTJ, the Honorable Kofi Annan named Mr. Mendez his Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, a task he performed from 2004 to 2007.

For more information on this event, please visit the Carr Center website

Contact:

American Primacy and Its Discontents Project Assistant
BCSIA
Email: americanprimacy@ksg.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-496-5324
Url: http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu