University of Wisconsin Law Building, Room 2260
March 31, 2006
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Morning Program Afternoon Program
9:00 – 9:10
Introduction
Scott Straus
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

9:10 – 10:30
Panel I: Dilemmas of Intervention

Chair: Helen Kinsella
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
University of Wisconsin-Madison


Fernando Tesón
Professor of Law
Florida State University College of Law

“The Vexing Problem of Authority in Humanitarian Intervention”

Benjamin Valentino
Assistant Professor of Government
Dartmouth College

“Dilemmas of Humanitarian Intervention”

10:45-12:00
Panel II:  Attitudes Toward Intervention-The U.S. and Europe
Chair: Sharon Hutchinson
Professor of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Madison


Jon Pevehouse
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Domestic Politics and Humanitarian Intervention”

Michel Feher
Publisher and author
“Constancy in Context: Doctors without Borders and Humanitarian Interventions



12:00-1:00 Lunch Break


1:00-2:00
Keynote Address 
Gareth Evans
Former Australian Foreign Minister and current President of the International Crisis Group
“From Humanitarian Intervention to Responsibility to Protect”

2:15-3:45
Panel III: The Future of Humanitarian Intervention: R2P and Beyond

Chair: Aili Tripp
Associate Dean of International Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thomas G. Weiss
Professor of Political Science The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
“R2P after 9/11 and after the World Summit: A Balance Sheet”

Jeremy I. Levitt
Professor of Law Florida International University College of Law
“Pro-Democratic Intervention in Africa”

Jerry Fowler
Staff Director, Committee on Conscience, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
"Law, Politics, and Irony: The Darfur (Non) Intervention"

4:00-4:45
Panel IV: closing remarks

Chair: Erik Doxtader
Associate Professor of Communication Ars, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Heinz Klug
Professor of Law University of Wisconsin-Madison

Helen Kinsella

Scott Straus