The Deconstruction of Mass Atrocity Prevention
A Roundtable Discussion Featuring
Stephen Rapp
US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes
Tibi Galis
Executive Director, Auschwitz Institute for Peace & Reconciliation (AIPR)
Samantha Horn
Program Director, Auschwitz Institute for Peace & Reconciliation (AIPR)
Presented by the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
in cooperation with the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention
of Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity
and the Centre for Security and Defence Studies (CSDS)
Stephen Rapp, US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, heads the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the U.S. State Department, and sits as a member on the Atrocities Prevention Board. Ambassador Rapp previously served as Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone where he was responsible for leading the prosecutions, among others, of former Liberian President Charles Taylor for atrocities committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone.
Tibi Galis has been Executive Director of AIPR since 2006. A native of Romania, he holds a B.A. in Law and Political Science from Babes-Bolyai University and M.A. in International Politics and Political Development from the University of Manchester. He is currently earning a Ph.D. from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, at Clark University, with a focus on transitional justice.
Samantha Horn is Program Director and legal associate at the AIPR. She is responsible for organizing the Lemkin Seminar (Global Government) which focuses on educating government actors about the onset and prevention of genocide.

Thursday, February 28, 2013 | 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Dunton Tower, Room 2017 | Carleton University

This event is free and open to the public.
For more information contact Joe Landry at joseph_landry@carleton.ca