HCRI Annual Landmark Lecture: The Moral Legitimacy of Humanitarian Action
| Dates: | 11 November 2013 |
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| Times: | 17:30 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | Faculty of Humanities |
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| Who is it for: | Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, University staff |
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| Speaker: | David Rieff |
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The annual HCRI public lecture series is designed to provide a public forum for engagement and debate about broad reaching humanitarian issues. We are delighted to welcome David Rieff as our esteemed speaker this year. David is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, a Fellow of the New York Institute for Humanities, and a board member of Human Rights Watch. He is the author of several books dealing with humanitarian interventions, and regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine. David has covered conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and Central Asia and, more recently, he has written extensively about Iraq, Latin America and the current Middle East crisis.In this HCRI Landmark Lecture, David draws on his extensive experiences of first-hand reporting from war zones around the world to critically discuss the dilemmas of humanitarian interventions.
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Speaker
David Rieff
Organisation: Senior Fellow World Policy Institute
Travel and Contact Information
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Lecture Theatre A
University Place
Manchester
