Contesting the Responsibility to Protect

The Department of International Relations and European Studies (IRES) at CEU and the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) co-hosted a three-day conference and workshop on Responsibility to Protect: Towards a Non-West Centric Debate, organized within the project Global Norm Evolution and Responsibility to Protect, led by GPPi and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

The opening event was a public panel discussion on “Contesting the Responsibility to Protect: Towards a Non-West Centric Debate” on October 16 with the participation of Ayse Zarakol of Cambridge University, Andrey Sushentsov of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Hannes Peltonen of Tampere University and Marcos Tourinho of Fundacao Getulio Vargas. Xymena Kurowska, assistant professor in IRES moderated the debate. The panelists reflected on the origins and character of the current dynamic by challenging such conventional frameworks and offering a more empirically grounded insight.

Read the summary, including live tweets, of the conference here.

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