Crisis States Research Centre and International Humanitarian Law Project public lecture
Date: Monday 22 October 2007
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Toby Lanzer
Discussant: Professor James Putzel
In his lecture Toby Lanzer looks at the challenges of kick starting and managing a humanitarian and development campaign for one of the world's forgotten crises, that of the Central African Republic.
Toby Lanzer is the United Nations Resident Coordinator in the Central African Republic (CAR), a land-locked, conflict-ridden and desperately poor country the size of France, that has gone through 30 years of economic and social decline. He is currently the youngest person heading the UN agencies' humanitarian and development work in any country. Before coming to CAR in 2006, Mr Lanzer was in charge of the UN's global emergency appeals at headquarters, and earlier managed the UN's humanitarian response to the crisis in Chechnya.
James Putzel is Professor of Development Studies and director of the Crisis States Programme at LSE.
This event has been rescheduled from Thursday 25 October.
Podcast
A podcast of this event is available to download from the LSE public lectures and events podcasts channel.
The next public lecture organised by the International Humanitarian Law Project will be on Thursday 1 November and is entitled Giving Peace a Chance: the rule of law during peace building.
The next public lecture organised by the Crisis States Research Centre will be on Tuesday 11 December and is entitled The Logic of Violence in Civil War.