HCRI Annual Landmark Lecture
14 Oct 2013
David Rieff will speak about "The Moral Legitimacy of Humanitarian Action" on Monday, 11 November 2013
The annual HCRI public lecture series is designed to provide a public forum for engagement and debate about broad reaching humanitarian issues. We are delighted to welcome David Rieff as our esteemed speaker at this year's annual public lecture.
David is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, a Fellow of the New York Institute for Humanities, and a board member of Human Rights Watch. He is the author of several books dealing with humanitarian interventions, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West, Crimes of War: What the public should know and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, and regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine. As a journalist and author during the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central Asia and, more recently, he has written extensively about Iraq, Latin America and the current Middle East crisis.
In this HCRI Landmark Lecture, David draws on his extensive experiences of first-hand reporting from war zones around the world to critically discuss the role of humanitarian organisations and the dilemmas of humanitarian interventions.
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These include inaugural lectures by:
- Professor Roger Mac Ginty Everyday Peace: the extraordinary peacemaking skills of so-called ordinary people on Wednesday, 23 October 23
- Professor Oliver Richmond Peace Formation and Local Infrastructures for Peace on Wednesday, 27 November