Liu Faculty Fellow Prof. Benjamin Perrin's first book "Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking" is being published this fall by Penguin Group (Canada). Hardcover copies are now available online for pre-order.
In an earlier issue of the Liu Global Focus series, David Santoro wrote that while in its first year in office the Obama administration did a good job of articulating an ambitious vision for the world in nuclear affairs, it would soon have to translate that vision into effective action. In this op-ed, David looks at how the administration have done just that, with the announcement of the much-anticipated U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) on April 6, 2010.
As part of his doctoral dissertation research, Adam Bower recently attended (as an
accredited observer), the first Review Conference of the International Criminal Court,
held in Kampala, Uganda, between May 31 and June 11, 2010. Bower’s research trip was funded, in part, through a small grant from UBC’s SDF Program. What follows is a brief review of the outcomes of the Conference. Of particular interest to those in Canada’s security and defence communities is the incorporation of a definition of aggression into the Rome Statute.
Margaret Purdy and Leanne Smythe, as part of the Security and Defence Forum Program at the Liu Insitute for Global Issues, recently published this article in International Journal.
We to pleased to host Elizabeth Borgwardt (Washington University, St. Louis) as she discusses a recent paper on the topic of corporate responsibility for human rights abuses as a legacy of Nuremburg.
The Liu Institute is pleased to host Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania) as he discusses three stages in the emergence of the concept of "crimes of humanity".
Presented by Thomas Wilkins, Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney, and Brian Job, Faculty Associate in Residence at the Liu Institute for Global Issues and UBC Professor of Political Science
