H.E. Mr. João Manuel Guerra Salgueiro of Portugal and H.E. Mr. Vanu Gopala Menon of Singapore.
Panel Discussions - Friday, May 16, 2008
Ambassadors from Africa, Asia, and Latin America Offer Regional Perspectives on RtoP
On May 12th, the International Peace Institute held a lunchtime policy discussion of the basis, scope, and prospects for the responsibility to protect (RtoP), as seen from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
In the spirit of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, which called on the General Assembly to continue its consideration of the responsibility to protect, IPI has sought to encourage an open and wide-ranging discussion on how progress in this area may be achieved. The May 12th event explored a variety of regional perspectives which will be critical in shaping how the UN community responds to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s repeated calls for the “operationalization” of the concept.The event featured presentations by three experienced United Nations Permanent Representatives, H.E. Mr. Maged Abdelaziz of Egypt, H.E. Mr. Vanu Gopala Menon of Singapore, and H.E. Mr. Heraldo Muñoz of Chile, who shared their views and insights on the responsibility to protect. Their comments prompted a lively exchange during the question and answer session between the panelists and the standing-room only audience. The forum was introduced and moderated by Edward C. Luck, IPI Senior Vice President and Director of Studies and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General, in which capacity he focuses on the responsibility to protect.
Chair:
Edward C. Luck
Senior Vice President and Director of Studies, International Peace Institute; Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General
Speakers:
H.E. Mr. Maged A. Abdelaziz
Permanent Representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Vanu Gopala Menon Permanent Representative of the Republic of Singapore to the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Heraldo Muñoz Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations
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The Global Observatory
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Recent Events
May 10, 2012
Arbour: What the Rule of Law Means
“In my understanding of the rule of law, fundamentally, what the rule of law means is that it embraces the principle of equality before the law,” Louise Arbour, president of the International Crisis Group (ICG), told an IPI audience on May 10, 2012. Ms. Arbour outlined that this means that no one is above the law and everyone has both equal protection and equal benefit of the law. 
May 03, 2012
Shachtman: Cyber Threats Akin to South Bronx, Not Pearl Harbor
“There’s not a danger of a cyber Pearl Harbor… it’s more like the South Bronx circa 1999, where there’s a danger that it becomes such a tough neighborhood that no one wants to set up shop there and people move out,” Noah Shachtman, editor of the Danger Room blog at Wired magazine and non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, told an IPI audience at a panel on cyber security on May 3, 2011.
April 27, 2012
Preventing Conflicts in Africa: The Role of Early Warning and Response Systems
An April 27th roundtable discussion at IPI titled “Preventing Conflicts in Africa: The Role of Early Warning and Response Systems” examined the progress, prospects and challenges of regional and international early warning and response mechanisms to monitor, anticipate, and mitigate potential conflict situations in Africa.