Ramesh Thakur - CSD Conversations
Channel: War Studies KCL
Date: 08/12/2020

In this wide-ranging CSD conversation, Ramesh Thakur explores the origins, conceptual evolution and status of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in conversation with Mats Berdal. 

Speakers include:
- Professor Ramesh Thakur - Thakur was a Commissioner and one of the principal authors of The Responsibility to Protect (2001), and Senior Adviser on Reforms and Principal Writer of the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s second reform report (2002). He was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo (2007–11), Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (2007–10) and Foundation Director of the Balsillie School of International affairs in Waterloo, Ontario. Professor Thakur is currently Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (CNND) in the Crawford School, The Australian National University.

- Mats Berdal -  Professor of Security and Development in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, where he is also the Programme Director for the MA in Conflict, Security and Development and Director of the Conflict, Security and Development Research Programme (CSDRG).