Professor the Honourable Gareth Evans AO, QC

 

 

Oration topic:
From Ideas to Action: ‘Political Will’ in International Decisionmaking

Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO, QC delivered the second Centenary Oration and the Inaugural Annual Lecture for the School of Political Science and International Studies in Brisbane on 31 March 2010.

Former Australian Foreign Minister, Gareth Evans, spoke on important foreign policy issues facing our world currently, especially the protection of human rights and the need to reduce the dangers of nuclear weapons.  He discussed the role of states like Australia and the part played by civil society and universities in energising foreign policy development and implementation.

About the speaker

Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC has been Chancellor of the Australian National University since January 2010, an Honorary Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne since July 2009, is Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament whose report Eliminating Nuclear Threats was published in December 2009, and is President Emeritus of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, the independent global conflict prevention and resolution organisation which he led from 2000 to 2009.

He previously spent 21 years in Australian politics, thirteen of them as a Cabinet Minister.  As Foreign Minister (1988-96) he was best known internationally for his roles in developing the UN peace plan for Cambodia, concluding the Chemical Weapons Convention, and initiating new Asia Pacific regional economic and security architecture.  He has written or edited nine books - most recently The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All, and has published over 100 journal articles and chapters on foreign relations, human rights and legal and constitutional reform.
  

Read the full story from Gareth Evans' Centenary oration.

Read the full transcript (.pdf / 76kb).

Listen to the oration, featuring introduction by Senior-Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael Keniger, Chair ABC Radio National's Paul Barclary and Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO, QC (.mp3 / 9.5mb)

During his visit, Gareth Evans was also interviewed by ABC Radio, a UQ Centenary Oration partner.  You can listen to the interview, or download it, from the ABC Conversations website

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