Sunday, November 30, 2008
Where: The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and live broadcasts in Cineplex Theatres across Canada.
When: Monday: December 1, 2008
6:45pm EST — Debate Starts
9:00pm EST — Public Vote
In a world of failed and failing states, does the international community and Canada have a responsibility to intervene, including militarily, in the affairs of nations that grossly fail to protect their citizens' human rights?
That is the question being asked in the second Munk Debate, that takes place Monday at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. It will also be broadcast live in Cineplex Theatres across Canada.
The debate aims to explore the merits and pitfall of humanitarian interventions by debating the resolution: "If countries like Sudan, Somalia and Burma will not end their man-made humanitarian crises, the international community should."
The debaters are Mia Farrow, Gareth Evans, John Bolton and Rick Hillier.
Mr. Evans, firmly on Pro side of the argument will be online Monday starting at 2:30 p.m. ET to answer reader questons ahead of the debate. Mr. Evans is the President and Chief Executive of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG), an independent multinational non-governmental organization with 90 full-time staff on five continents which works, through field-based analysis and high-level policy advocacy, to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
A member of the Australian Parliament for 21 years, Mr. Evans was one of Australia's longest serving foreign ministers, best known internationally for his roles in developing the UN peace plan for Cambodia, bringing to a conclusion the international Chemical Weapons Convention, founding the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), and initiating the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
He has also served as a member of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, co-chaired by Cyrus Vance and David Hamburg (1994-97), and is currently a member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Committee on the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities.