Fifteen years ago this month, Lloyd Axworthy, then Canada’s Foreign Minister, visited Norway. He and his Norwegian counterpart, Knut Vollebaek, had become friends, having discovered during their frequent meetings that they shared a similar world view. Their collaboration had already resulted in innovations like the creation of the Arctic Cou… Read More
Archive d'auteurs: Allan Rock
Par Lloyd Axworthy et Allan Rock Now that the U.S. Election is over… While post-election attention focuses on the looming battle between President Obama and congressional Republicans about the fiscal cliff, it is important also to remember the abyss in Syria. Thousands are being killed every month. The UN predicts four million will be in need of hum… Read More
A Reflection on Responsibility: What Does Syria Mean for R2P?
By Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock Publié dans le Diplomat Magazine, 4 octobre 2012 The world has watched in frustration as the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad of Syria has turned its weapons against its own citizens to suppress an insurgency and cling to power. The shocking estimates of civilian casualties (some as high as 20,000) don’t measure the untold mi… Read More
L’article complet a été publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, 13 mars 2012 By coincidence, I was in Pader, northern Uganda, last week when the video about the murderous warlord Joseph Kony, called Kony 2012, went viral. The video has ignited controversy concerning the motives and methods of those behind the populist campaign to see him captured. If nothing… Read More
Canadians Can Help Stop the Persecution of Iran’s Baha’i
Par Allan Rock et Lloyd Axworthy With the eyes of the world on the Arab Spring, the populist struggles in Iran have faded from view. Yet some in Iran continue to face appalling levels of abuse, oppression, and injustice. The hopes for reform in Iran that were raised in June 2009 have proven empty, while the prisons remain full. Political prisoners are routinel… Read More
A Victory for the Responsibility to Protect
Par Lloyd Axworthy et Allan Rock Publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, 25 octobre 2011 In a fortuitous coincidence, last week’s liberation of Libya occurred exactly a decade after the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle was proposed by the Canadian-initiated International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS). The successf… Read More
