The Ethics of Intervention: A Responsibility to Protect? April 17, 2007

The St. Olaf Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha invites you to our spring forum, “The Ethics of Intervention: A Responsibility to Protect?” on Tuesday April 17th , at 5pm (reception at 4:30pm) in Viking Theater, Buntrock Commons, at St. Olaf College.

How should governments respond to large-scale humanitarian crises such as the current atrocities in Darfur? If a government cannot or will not protect its own people from violence, do other countries have the right, or even the responsibility, to intervene?

The “Responsibility to Protect” framework of intervention provides new ways of thinking about these questions and we will explore both the ethics and efficacy of this model. The forum will feature CUNY Professor Thomas Weiss who served as Research Director for the commission that drafted the Responsibility to Protect guidelines and Florida State University Professor Fernando Teson, a distinguished international law scholar. St. Olaf Professor Tony Lott will moderate the discussion and Q&A.

Please join us at 4:30 for a reception with our speakers. The forum will begin at 5:00 and will end by 6:30 pm. The event is free and open to the public. We hope you can join us!

If you have any questions, feel free to email psa-officers@stolaf.edu.