This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. The
Conventions and their protocols form the core of international
humanitarian law and preserve common HUMANITY IN THE MIDST OF
CONFLICT.
2019 also marks the 70th anniversary of the ANU Department of
International Relations. Through our research we generate evidence for
normative guidance and humanitarian capacity building at both local
and global levels.
Join us for a conversation with International Committee of the Red
Cross’ Head of Policy, Dr Hugo Slim, about what humanity means in
practice to a world in flux and as the very nature of conflict
evolves, followed by a Q&A panel.
In the lead-up to the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions,
discover why we would be worse off without these rules of war, why
they remain fit for purpose, but also how the world can do better by
them. Learn how the ICRC confronts new technologies like cyber and
autonomous weapons and how it continues to build trust in humanitarian
action even as war becomes more fractured, protracted, urban and
deadly.
This unique colloquium will be a celebration of humanitarianism and
bring together ICRC senior diplomats and some of the ANU Coral Bell
School’s key thinkers to discuss the challenges of humanitarian
action in the 21st Century.
The panel will be chaired by A/Prof Bina D’Costa (Coral Bell
School), and will feature:
* Prof Toni Erskine (Director, Coral Bell School),
* Leonard Blazeby (Head of Mission in Australia, ICRC)
* Prof Edward Aspinall (Coral Bell School)
* Dr Cecilia Jacob (Coral Bell School)
DR HUGO SLIM is Head of Policy at the International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva. Before joining ICRC in 2015, he was Senior
Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed CONFLICT
(ELAC) at the University of Oxford. Hugo has combined a career between
academia and practice. Between 1983 and 1994, Hugo worked for Save the
Children and the United Nations in Morocco, Sudan, Ethiopia, the
Occupied Palestinian Territories and Bangladesh. His most recent books
are _Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to __the Morality of Aid in War and
Disaster_ (2015 Hurst/OUP) and _Killing Civilians: Method, __Madness
and Morality in War_ (2007 Hurst/OUP).
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