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DESCRIPTION:Professor Ronald Niezen\, Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil S
 ociety and Public Policy\, welcomes Michael van Walt\, Ph.D.\, School of H
 istorical Studies\, Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\, NJ\, USA.\n
 \nAbstract\n\nTibet is today routinely portrayed as a part of China and th
 e language used suggests a fait accompli in this regard. This is detriment
 al to the prospects of resolving the decades old international conflict th
 at has caused and continues to cause tremendous human suffering. It is als
 o legally incorrect.\n\nAlthough Tibet was formerly acknowledged to be an 
 occupied country and the Tibetans a people with the right to self-determin
 ation\, which obliges the international community to address the situation
  and seek a solution to the Sino-Tibetan conflict\, today our governments 
 are by and large acting as if the situation in Tibet were a Chinese intern
 al affair\, outside of their purview. This not only negatively affects the
  Tibetan people\; it harms all of us for it undermines the very norms of i
 nternational law created to prevent war and keep us safe and free.\n\nAt t
 he core of this change lie changing power relationships and the increasing
  buy-in to the PRC narrative that Tibet has always been a part of China. M
 ichael van Walt will demonstrate the fallacy of this claim and the dangers
  of our willingness to ignore or compromise the truth for political or eco
 nomic gain.\n\nMichael van Walt van Praag is an expert in intrastate peace
  processes\, professor of international law\, and author. He serves as the
  Executive Director of KREDDA\, an organization dedicated to the preventio
 n and resolution of conflicts between population groups and the government
 s of states within which they live. He has served as advisor and consultan
 t to numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations in peace tal
 ks in regions ranging from Chechnya to Papua New Guinea. He has made his p
 assion for the need to alleviate suffering caused by injustice\, violent c
 onflict and oppression his life-long career.\n\nHe has authored and edited
  books and articles on a variety of topics related to intrastate conflict 
 and to relations of peoples and minorities with states\, including Mobiliz
 ing Knowledge for Post-Conflict Development at the Local Level (The Hague:
  RAWOO 2000)\; The Implementation of the Right to Self-Determination as a 
 Contribution to Conflict Prevention (Barcelona: UNESCO Division of Human R
 ights\, Democracy and Peace/UNESCO Centre of Catalonia 1999)\; ‘The Memora
 ndum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People: an explanatory introducti
 on to the Tibetan proposal’ in Multinational Integration\, Cultural Identi
 ty and Regional Self-Government: Comparative Experiences for Tibet (R. Ton
 iatti and J. Woelk eds.\, London: Routledge 2014)\; Sacred Mandates: Asian
  International Relations since Chinggis Khan (Silk Roads\, University of C
 hicago Press\, 2018).\n\n \n
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LOCATION:Stephen Scott Seminar Room (OCDH 16)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, 
 QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Speaking Truth to Power: Challenging China's Claim to Tibet
URL:/law/channels/event/speaking-truth-power-challengi
 ng-chinas-claim-tibet-319693
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