Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibiluity to Protect invites you to  a public seminar by Dr Hugo Slim Head of Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

"War today, war tomorrow."

Mon 27 May 2019 4:00pm5:30pm

Venue

The University of Queensland
Room: 
Terrace Room Sir Llew Edwards Building #14

Dr Hugo Slim Head of Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

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 where he led research on humanitarian ethics and the protection of civilians. Hugo has combined a career between academia and practice. He was Chief Scholar at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue from 2003-2007 and Reader in International Humanitarianism at Oxford Brookes University from 1994-2003. Between 1983 and 1994, Hugo worked for Save the Children and the United Nations in Morocco, Sudan, Ethiopia, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Bangladesh. He received his PhD in humanitarian ethics from Oxford Brookes University in 2002. 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). 

 

Please register to secure a place at  what will be a very informative  and thought provoking presentation.