The current director of the British Institute of Human Rights, Stephen Bowen has held senior posts within the UN, Amnesty International, and the UN Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Currently he holds the post of Visiting Professor of Human Rights Law at Queen Mary, London.  He shall be talking about when internal decisions made by states become the concern of the international community, and what intervention is justified in such cases.

The event will be FREE to IR Soc members, and followed by a drinks reception.