The Responsibility to Protect

Jared Genser, Managing Director, Perseus Strategies, Honourable Irwin Cotler, M.P., Professor, Canadian Parliament, Prefaced by Desmond Tutu, and Prefaced by Václav Havel

Preface by Desmond Tutu and Václav Havel Irwin Cotler is Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Programme at McGill University. He previously served as Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General and currently serves as an M.P. in Canada's Parliament. He has taught as a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale.

Jared Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, a law firm whose practice focuses on international human rights. Independently, he is founder of Freedom Now, a non-profit organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide. Previously, he was a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper LL P and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. He has taught semester-long seminars about the UN Security Council at the University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania law schools. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.

Contributors: 

Václav Havel: Former President of the Czech Republic.; Desmond M. Tutu: Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town.; Lloyd Axworthy: President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Winnipeg.; William W. Burke-White: Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.; Tarun Chhabra: Soros Fellow, Harvard Law School.; Jeremy B. Zucker: Partner, Hogan Lovells.; Nicole Deller: Director of Programs for the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.; Edward C. Luck: UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on R2P.; Ademola Abass: Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS.; Noel M. Morada: Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.; Mark V. Vlasic: Partner, Ward & Ward.; Gilberto Marcos Antonio Rodrigues: Visiting Scholar, the Center for Civil and Human Rights, Notre Dame Law School.; Mohamed S. Helal: Third Secretary with the Egyptian Foreign Service.; Andrew S. Natsios: Distinguished Professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.; Zachary Scott: Field Support Coordinator for the Migration and Refugee Services Department at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.; Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro: Professor of political science (retired) at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.; Meghan Barron: Associate, DLA Piper.; Meredith Preston-McGhie: Senior Programme Manager (Africa) for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.; Serena Sharma: Research Associate at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.; Damien Kingsbury: Chair in the School of International and Political Studies at Deakin University.; Delphine Schrank: Adjunct Fellow with the East-West Center in Washington.; Kjell Magne Bondevik: Former Prime Minister of Norway.; Kristen Abrams: Pro-Bono Counsel, DLA Piper.; Gareth Evans: Former Attorney General and Foreign Minister of Australia .