Responsibility to Protect leader speaking at NU
Tina J. Park, co-founder and executive director of the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (CCR2P) will be speaking on campus on Thursday September 22, from 7 – 9 p.m. in room A122.
The special lecture is presented by the Nipissing District Branch of the Canadian International Council (CIC).
Drawing on her research into peacekeeping and the responsibility to protect doctrine, Park will reflect on how far R2P has come in contemporary times in her talk, titled Responsibility to Protect: Exercising Our Collective Responsibility.
This event is open to everyone and is offered free of charge.Please register here in advance as seating is limited.
Speaker’s Biography
Tina J. Park is a co-founder and executive director of the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (CCR2P), based at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. The CCR2P, established in 2010, is a non-profit, non-partisan research institute aimed at scholarly engagement and political implementation of R2P. As one of the world’s foremost institutions dedicated to R2P, the Centre has over 300 analysts across Canada and a global R2P Scholars Network comprised of over 200 fellows actively engaged in R2P-related studies.
An enthusiastic advocate of R2P, Park advised the Inter-Parliamentary Union in 2012 (Quebec) and 2013 (Quito) on their resolution on the role of parliamentarians in implementing R2P. Since 2012, she has contributed to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s annual reports on R2P and addressed the UN General Assembly’s Dialogue on R2P in 2015 and 2016. Park is an active commentator on R2P-related issues in the media, and has advised over 30 national, regional and international bodies on their policy regarding R2P. Most recently, she co-authored a book chapter on the role of the private sector in implementing R2P, to be published by the Cambridge University Press in the fall of 2016.
An award-winning scholar, Park is also completing her PhD at the University of Toronto on a century of bilateral relationship between Canada and Korea. She graduated from Trinity College in international relations (summa cum laude) and has served on the Governing Council of the University of Toronto and Junior Fellow at Massey College. She currently teaches Canadian foreign policy at the University of Toronto. Park has been recently appointed as the Vice-President of the Executive Committee and a director of the NATO Association of Canada, and serves as a fellow of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary History. She speaks five languages and enjoys travelling and sailing in her free time. (www.tinapark.ca)