U.N. Human Rights Chief on His ‘Impossible Diplomacy’
Channel: United States Institute of Peace
Date: 2017-02-16

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, a Jordanian career diplomat and leader in international criminal justice, serves as the seventh United Nations high commissioner for human rights. He led in the creation of the International Criminal Court and in the framing of the world’s legal definition of “crimes against humanity.” On Feb. 16, the U.S. Institute of Peace will host Amb. Zeid as he receives the annual Trainor Award from Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. Amb. Zeid will speak on “The Impossible Diplomacy of Human Rights.”

For more information about this event, visit: http://www.usip.org/events/un-human-rights-chief-his-impossible-diplomacy

Speakers:

Nancy Lindborg
President, U.S. Institute of Peace

Ambassador (ret.) Barbara K. Bodine 
Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy

Frank J. Hogan
Chair, Trainor Lecture Fund Endowment

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Dr. Chester Crocker, Moderator
Professor, Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service