Event Date: April 4, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: FSS 4004, 120 University Private

Stephen J. Rapp: former US Ambassador for War Crimes

Presented by CIPS and the Canadian Centre for International Justice.

Canada has historically been a global leader on international justice issues. That tradition should continue — but it requires some innovative thinking. CIPS and CCIJ welcome Stephen Rapp, the former U.S. Ambassador at-large for War Crimes Issues, to discuss why Canada should establish an Ambassador for International Justice. Ambassador Rapp will speak of his own experiences as U.S. ambassador, the lessons learned from his tenure as an international prosecutor and diplomat, and suggest how the creation of an international justice ambassadorship can help the Canadian government meet its foreign policy objectives.

Stephen J. Rapp served as Ambassador-at-Large heading the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the US State Department from September 2009 to August 2015, and led US efforts to promote accountability for international crimes. From January 2007 to September 2009, Rapp was the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) responsible for the prosecution of, among others, former Liberian President Charles Taylor, and from 2001 to 2007, Rapp served as Senior Trial Attorney and Chief of Prosecutions at the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda. He is currently the Sonia and Harry Blumenthal Distinguished Fellow for the Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skodt Center.

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