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SUMMARY:Diplomatic and International Law Mechanisms in Mass Atrocity and Genocide Prevention
DESCRIPTION:Join the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre for a webinar on Diplomatic and International Law Mechanisms in Mass Atrocity and Genocide Prevention. \nAs the modern world continues to face gross human rights violations\, it is important to confront the roots and history of these conflicts and explore how the international community works to them. Guest speakers\, Ambassador (ret) Edward O’Donnell and Ambassador David Scheffer will discuss the duality of soft diplomacy and international law mechanisms in the prevention of mass atrocities and genocide\, and reflect on the past to invigorate the future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmbassador O’Donnell is a Co-Founder of the ASU Lab for Leadership\,\nDiplomacy and National Security and is a Professor of Practice in the School of\nPolitics and Global Studies and the Barrett Honors College. He teaches in the\nMaster of Arts program courses such as: Diplomacy in Action\, the Embassy\nCountry Team\, International Negotiations\, Diplomacy\, Human Rights and\nPreventing Genocide\, The Holocaust and World War II and International\nEconomics. \nHe is on the Board of the Genocide Awareness Week (2025) at ASU. \nAmbassador O’Donnell retired from the career U.S. Foreign Service in 2018\,\nafter 33 years in Latin America\, German-speaking Europe and other positions\nin Washington\, D.C. He served in Germany\, Austria\, Panama\, Colombia and\nParaguay\, as Charge\, Deputy Chief of Mission\, Consul General (Principal\nOfficer)\, Economic Counselor and Commercial Attaché. In Washington D.C.\,\nHe was a negotiating Ambassador concentrating on Holocaust issues\, a\nDemocratic Charter for the Americas and civil aviation rights. He was\nExecutive Assistant to three Under Secretaries and Special Assistant\, U.S. State\nDepartment Policy Planning Staff. \nO’Donnell served in the active U.S. Army Reserve for 30 years with tours in\nGermany\, Panama and the United States. A Foreign Area Officer in Europe\nand Latin America\, he commanded two Military Intelligence Detachments as\nColonel. \nSince retirement from the State Department\, he was Senior Strategy Advisor\nto the Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security (2014-2018)\, Senior\nMentor/Advisor to the Afghanistan Government Minister of Counter Narcotics\nin Kabul (2011-2014) and State Department inspector (2010 – 2011) in the Middle\nEast Regional Office of the Inspector General. From 2009 – 2011 he was Acting\nPrincipal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Congressional Relations Bureau\nand earlier managed the State Department Liaison Office to the House of\nRepresentatives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid J. Scheffer joined the School of Politics & Global Studies in 2021 as a Professor. He is also\na Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations (Washington office). \nFrom 2006 through 2020 Professor Scheffer was the Mayer Brown/Robert A.\nHelman Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and\nis Director Emeritus of the Center for International Human Rights there. He was\nthe Tom A. Bernstein Genocide Prevention Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust\nMemorial Museum (2019-2021) and the International Francqui Professor at\nKatholieke Universiteit Leuven\, Belgium (2022). From 2012 to 2018 he was the\nU.N. Secretary-General’s Special Expert on U.N. Assistance to the Khmer Rouge\nTrials. Professor Scheffer was the first U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes\nIssues (1997-2001) and led the U.S. delegation to the U.N. talks establishing the\nInternational Criminal Court. He negotiated the creation of five war crimes\ntribunals and chaired the Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group\n(1998-2001). He served on the Deputies Committee of the National Security\nCouncil and as Senior Adviser and Counsel to Dr. Madeleine Albright\, the U.S.\nPermanent Representative to the United Nations\, from 1993-1996. His latest two\nbooks are “All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals”\n(Princeton 2012) and “The Sit Room: In the Theater of War and Peace” (Oxford\n2019). \nProfessor Scheffer has worked in an international law firm\, the Committee on\nForeign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives\, the Carnegie Endowment\nfor International Peace\, the U.S. Institute of Peace\, and the U.N. Association of\nthe U.S.A.\, and he has held visiting professorships at several law schools. He was\nan International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1986-87. \nProfessor Scheffer received the Berlin Prize in 2013\, the Champion of Justice\nAward of the Center for Justice and Accountability in 2018\, and the 2020 Dr.\nJean Mayer Global Citizenship Award\, Global Leadership Institute\, Tufts\nUniversity. Foreign Policy magazine selected him as a “Top Global Thinker of\n2011.” He is a member of the New York\, District of Columbia\, and Supreme Court\nbars and is a native of Norman\, Oklahoma. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here
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