Gareth Evans to speak on race hatred, conflict and discrimination

Gareth Evans, Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and ANU Chancellor will give a public lecture - ’Battling Race Hatred, Conflict and Discrimination: A personal journey" - as part of Diversity Week at the University of Melbourne this Monday 9 August.

The University’s annual Diversity Week campaign runs from 9-13 August. As well as this Public Lecture Diversity Week includes a series of 30 fun and informative student and staff events. Program: http://www.unimelb.edu.au...

Who:
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC
Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne

What:
Public Lecture: ’Battling Race Hatred, Conflict and Discrimination: A personal journey"

When:
Monday 9 August at 6-7pm

Where:
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, University of Melbourne Parkville Campus

About Gareth Evans

Professor Gareth Evans has been an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne since July 2009, Chancellor of the Australian National University since January 2010, is Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament whose report Eliminating Nuclear Threats was published in December 2009, and is President Emeritus of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, the independent global conflict prevention and resolution organisation which he led from 2000 to 2009.

He previously spent 21 years in Australian politics, 13 of them as a Cabinet Minister. As Foreign Minister (1988-96) he was best known internationally for his roles in developing the UN peace plan for Cambodia, concluding the Chemical Weapons Convention, and initiating new Asia Pacific regional economic and security architecture. He has written or edited nine books - most recently The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All, published by the Brookings Institution in 2008 (paperback edition 2009). He has published over 100 journal articles and chapters on foreign relations, human rights and legal and constitutional reform.

He was Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2001), and a member of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (2004), the Blix Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction (2006), the Zedillo Commission of Eminent Persons on The Role of the IAEA to 2020 and Beyond (2008) and the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention. He is Co-Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.