September 13, 2006 Source: :
http://www.uregina.ca/news/releases/2006/september/13.shtml Beyond Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights in Global Society What are global human rights? How can they be enforced? And who should enforce them? Professor Michael Walzer from Princeton University will tackle these questions in his lecture, "Beyond Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights in Global Society", on Fri., Sept. 15 at 3:30 p.m. in the Campion College Auditorium at the University of Regina. Admission to the lecture is free and open to the public, and parking is available at no charge in Lot 3 in the "M" designated areas. Walzer argues that global human rights are a minimalist set of rights, aimed at protecting us against mass murder and ethnic cleansing. He considers possible expansions of these rights and asks what it might mean to enforce a somewhat more extensive, though still minimalist, understanding of rights. A professor, author, editor and lecturer, Walzer has addressed a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy, including political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, and economic justice and the welfare state. His books include Just and Unjust Wars, Spheres of Justice, The Company of Critics, and On Toleration, as well as Dissent (editor). A permanent faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Social Justice, he is currently working on the toleration and accommodation of "difference" in all its forms, and also on a four-volume collaborative project focused on the history of Jewish political thought. For more information, contact Cindy Baron at 585-4332. -30-
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