13 May 2013 | 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Mill Lane Lecture Room 2 |
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Description
This event is free and open to all
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC FASSA (Chancellor of the Australian National University) will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium.
Abstract
Is achieving a world without nuclear weapons not just an impossible aspiration, but a hopelessly wrong-headed one? Have they been a stabilizing deterrent, or have the risks associated with their retention always outweighed any such utility? Is there a credible path to minimization and ultimately zero, or is disarmament always going to be a pipe dream? Gareth Evans will draw in this lecture on his experience in and out of government wrestling with these issues, in particular as co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (2009).
Events in the Series:
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Ending Deadly Conflict: A Naïve Dream? 8 May 2013 5:00pm - 6:30pm, Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013: Gareth Evans |
Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes: A Hopeless Dream? 10 May 2013 5:00pm - 6:30pm, Mill Lane (Lecture Room 9) Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013: Gareth Evans |
Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: An Impossible Dream? 13 May 2013 5:00pm - 5:30pm, Mill Lane Lecture Room 2 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013: Gareth Evans |
The Future of Deadly Conflict: Is Optimism Defensible? 14 May 2013 2:00pm - 6:00pm, The Pitt Building (Darwin Room) Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013: Gareth Evans |
About the Professorship
The Humanitas Chair in Statecraft and Diplomacy has been made possible by the generous support of Mrs Angelika Diekmann.
The Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Statecraft and Diplomacy aims to bring to Cambridge some of the world's leading practitioners in this general field. Using their personal experience and close engagement in contemporary events, they can provide a vivid and direct insight into vital areas of international affairs, where transparency is rarely available. They will also help to build bridges of interpretation and understanding between the theoreticians of international studies, and those most closely involved in shaping the initiatives and activities of nation states, alliances and international organisations in a period of global dynamism, uncertainty and change. This Visiting Professorship promises to help throw light on a profession famous for its discretion and the practice of its 'dark arts'.
Standing Committee
Christopher Hill (International Studies)
Sir Richard Dearlove (Master, Pembroke College)