EUGENE, Ore. – (October 21, 2013) – Internationally recognized scholar and educator Hugo Slim visits the University of Oregon November 16-23 as the 2013-14 Savage Professor of International Relations and Peace.
Slim’s visit marks the beginning of a collaboration between the University of Oregon and the University of Oxford, which focuses on issues of global human rights through events and scholarship opportunities for UO students and faculty members on the Eugene and Oxford campuses.
While at the UO, Slim will conduct a workshop on prevention-oriented curriculum with UO faculty and 4J teachers, attend classes, engage with students interested in international aid work and deliver the UO’s second annual address on the State of Human Rights.
His lecture, “The State of Human Rights: The Challenge of Humanitarian Action,” will take place on Wednesday Nov. 20, at 7 p.m. in the Knight Law Center Campbell Auditorium. Admission is free. All are welcome.
Hugo Slim is a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford where he leads research on humanitarian ethics. He has been a board member of Oxfam GB, an international advisor to the British Red Cross, and is currently on the board of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD).
In prior years, Slim worked for Save the Children and the United Nations in Morocco, Sudan, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and the Middle East. He has also been appointed chief scholar at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva where he led research on the protection of civilians, and political mediation in armed conflicts; and has consulted for the ICRC, UN agencies and many of the world’s largest NGOs. Slim is the author of many papers on humanitarian action and four books: “Essays in Humanitarian Action” (2012); “Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War” (2007); “Protection: A Guide for Humanitarian Agencies” (2005) and “Listening for a Change: Oral Testimony and Development” (1993).
His visit is sponsored by the Carlton and Wilberta Ripley Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace, with support from the UO Initiative “Genocide and Mass Atrocities: Responsibility to Prevent,” the Conflict and Dispute Resolution Master’s Degree Program at the UO School of Law and the Robert D. Clark Honors College.
