On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR), I invite you to participate in the next session of the
Winter/Spring 2013 CFR Academic Conference Call series on Wednesday,
March 6, from 10:00 to 11:00 AM in WY 226. Mark P. Lagon,
CFR's adjunct senior fellow for human rights, will discuss the role of
business in international relations and human rights obligations.
Ambassador Lagon is the international
relations and security chair at Georgetown University's master of
science in foreign service program and teaches multilateral politics and
the ethics of international relations. From 2007 to 2009,
he was U.S. ambassador-at-large at the State Department, directing the
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Previously,
Ambassador Lagon served as deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of
International Organization Affairs at the State Department;
as a member of Secretary of State Colin Powell's policy planning staff;
and on the senior staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He
is a founding counselor of the Global Business Coalition Against Human
Trafficking and is the author of "The Reagan
Doctrine: Sources of American Conduct in the Cold War's Last Chapter."
As background for the discussion, you may wish to read the following materials:
1) "How to Encourage U.S. Companies to Respect Human Rights," Human Rights First, December 2012.
2) Mark P. Lagon, "Conservatives, Liberals, and Human Rights," Policy Review, February/March 2012.
3) "The U.N. Guiding Principles on Business
and Human Rights," The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University,
February 2012.
4) Mark P. Lagon, "Promoting Human Rights: Is
U.S. Consistency Desirable or Possible?" Expert Brief, Council on
Foreign Relations, October 2011.
5) "Global Governance Monitor: Human Rights," International Institutions and Global Governance, Council on Foreign Relations.
If you’re interested in attending, please RSVP to me at sweinberger@pugetsound.edu.
Seth Weinberger
