ANU Chancellor Prfessor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC. Photo by Belinda Pratten.
ANU Chancellor Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC has been named one of Foreign Policy magazine's Top Global Thinkers of 2011. The annual list, which is judged by a group of prominent international peers, recognises the 100 individuals who have shaped the global conversation and world's best ideas over the last 12 months. Professor Evans has been named on the 2011 list with Special Adviser to the U.N. Secretary General, Frances Deng, for making the idea of a 'responsibility to protect' more than an academic concept. According to Foreign Policy, the pair took the concept from "airy theory held by a small cadre of human rights advocates to a guiding principle of the world's strongest military alliance". Professor Evans and the other 2011 global thinkers will be honoured at a reception in Washington DC, and profiled in Foreign Policy's third annual Global Thinkers issue. Other winners include Barack Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Condoleezza Rice, Alaa Al Aswany, Bill and Hilary Clinton and Desmond Tutu. The Foreign Policy citation reads: "Francis Deng and Gareth Evans played a prominent role in developing the intellectual scaffolding for R2P, as it's clunkily called, and it received its first practical application this year in Libya.
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