Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
Torture, US Foreign Policy and Beyond
May 18, 2017 at 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
| Location: | Moot Court Hall (ground floor) of Fauteux Hall, within the Faculty of Law Building at the University of Ottawa. 57 Louis-Pasteur Private |
| Cost: | See event notice |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Key Contact: | Margaret Huber |
| Contact Email: | margarethe@icloud.com |
On May 18, Alberto Mora will speak to the club (and all others interested in human rights, public policy and effective strategy) about “Torture, US Foreign Policy and Beyond”.
Alberto Mora is Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. A former General Counsel to the US Navy, he led an effort within the Defense Department to end coercive and unlawful interrogation tactics at Guantanamo. Countering those who call for harsh approaches, he continues as a leader against the use of torture as reprehensible, ineffective and illegal.
With U.S. President Trump threatening to re-instate “water-boarding and worse”, U.S. experience with torture remains very relevant to the conduct of foreign policy today. For background, please see the October 2016 article in Foreign Affairs: The Strategic Costs of Torture.