The Responsibility to Protect, Libya, and the Security Council: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward
Guest Speakers:
Jonas Claes-U.S. Institute of Peace
Jerry Fowler-Open Society Policy Center
Tod Lindberg-Hoover Institution
Moderator: Sapna Chhatpar Considine
Hosted by World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy and Citizens for Global Solutions
Location: American Immigration Lawyers Association
Suite 300, 1331 G Street, NW
Washington, DC
20005-3142
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm
Moderator-Sapna Chhatpar Considine: Deputy Director
International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect
Sapna Chhatpar Considine is the Deputy Director of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP). Prior to R2PCS/ICRtoP, Ms. Considine worked for a United States Congressman as the international affairs staffer. She also worked at a DC-based civil rights law firm which specialized in class action employment discrimination law. Ms. Considine holds a Master of International Affairs, focusing on Human Rights, from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the American University in Washington, DC.
Panelist-Jonas Claes: Senior Program Specialist
Center for Conflict Management, U.S. Institute of Peace
Jonas Claes is senior program specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Center for Conflict Management, focusing on conflict prevention and the prevention of mass atrocities. Claes is a reviewer for the Global R2P Journal, and has written extensively on the Responsibility to Protect. He holds an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University, an M.A. in International Relations from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), and a B.A. in Political Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel. In 2008, Claes worked as executive assistant at the Ludwig von Mises Institute-Europe in Brussels, where he represented the Institute at the European Parliament.
Panelist-Jerry Fowler: Senior Policy Analyst
Open Society Foundations, Open Society Policy Center
Jerry Fowler is the senior policy analyst for multilateral affairs at the Open Society Policy Center (OSPC), where he advocates for effective multilateralism in U.S. foreign policy and for improvements in multilateral institutions. Fowler previously served as the president of the Save Darfur Coalition from 2008 -2010, and has also worked as the founding director of the Committee on Conscience at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and legislative counsel at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. He has published several works, and directed the short film A Good Man in Hell: General Romeo Dallaire and the Rwanda Genocide.
Panelist-Tod Lindberg: Research Fellow
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Tod Lindberg is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and editor of Policy Review. His areas of research interest are political theory, international relations, national security policy, and American politics. He has authored many works, including The Political Teachings of Jesus (HarperCollins, 2007), and has served as editor for many publications including, Beyond Paradise and Power: Europe, America, and the Future of a Troubled Partnership (Routledge, 2004). Lindberg is a member of the Hoover Institution's Task Force on the Virtues of a Free Society and coeditor of the book series Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society. He is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard.
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