Academics questioned on responsibility to protect and humanitarian intervention
1 May 2018
The Foreign Affairs Committee holds an evidence session on the responsibility to protect and humanitarian intervention.
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- Inquiry: Responsibility to protect and humanitarian intervention
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This session will consider the legal basis for states to intervene militarily in other states for humanitarian purposes.
Witnesses
Tuesday 1 May 2018, Committee Room 16
At 2.45pm
- Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Director, Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice & Associate Professor of International Relations, SOAS University of London
- Dr Kate Ferguson, Director of Research and Policy, Protection Approaches
- Professor Marc Weller, Professor of International Law and International Constitutional Studies, University of Cambridge
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