Gareth Evans & Lord Chris Patten | Full Event

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Join Oxford Chancellor Lord Patten of Barnes in conversation with former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans in a special UK launch of the Evans’s recently published political memoir Incorrigible Optimist .

Gareth Evans, Oxford PPE graduate and Honorary Fellow of Magdalen, and now Chancellor of the Australian National University, served for thirteen years as a cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating Australian Labor governments, and then for a decade as head of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. He was the principal architect of the Cambodian peace plan and the UN-endorsed norm of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ against mass
atrocity crimes, and continues to tirelessly advocate for the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

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