October 20,
2014 Department of International Law, PFUR holds II-nd International Conference
on Human Rights: "Improvement of the human rights mechanisms of the United
Nations in the XXI century". The conference is held with the support of
OHCHR and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Keynote speaker Jennifer Welsh Special Adviser at the Assistant Secretary-General level
on the Responsibility to Protect will speak at the plenary session of the
report dedicated to the responsibility to protect.
Ms.
Jennifer Welsh was appointed in July 2013 by United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon as his Special Adviser at the Assistant Secretary-General level on
the Responsibility to Protect.
Ms. Welsh
works under the overall guidance of Adama Dieng, the Secretary-General’s
Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, to further the conceptual,
political, institutional and operational development of the responsibility to
protect concept, as set out by the General Assembly in paragraphs 138 and 139
of the 2005 World Summit Outcome document.
Currently,
a Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University
Institute in Florence, Ms. Welsh’s research projects include the evolution of
the “responsibility to protect” in international society, the ethics of
post-conflict reconstruction, the authority of the United Nations Security
Council and the notion of sovereignty.
Ms. Welsh
was previously Professor of International Relations and Co-Director of the
Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of
Oxford, Associate Director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Programme at the
University of Toronto, Cadieux Research Fellow on the policy planning staff of
Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Jean Monnet Fellow of the European
University Institute. She has also taught international relations at McGill
University and at the Central European University, in addition to having
published widely on the responsibility to protect and atrocity prevention. She
has worked as a consultant to the Government of Canada on international policy
and has been a frequent commentator in the Canadian media on foreign policy and
international relations.
Holding a
master’s degree and a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where she studied
as a Rhodes Scholar, Ms. Welsh also has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree
from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
Born in
Regina, Saskatchewan, she is married and has two children.
