The Enduring Crisis Of Humanitarism

University Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, Tom Farer is the former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS), the first American ever to head a principal organ of the OAS. He has also served as President of the University of New Mexico. He has direct experience of humanitarian missions, having served as legal consult for the UN's Somalia intervention in 1993 and in connection therewith prepared a report for the Security Council on how war broke out between the UN and a key internal actor.  He will shortly be published an essay on the same topic in the Carnegie Council journal, "Ethics and International Affairs."  Within the United states Government, he has served as special assistant first to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense and then to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He has taught law at Columbia University, American University, Rutgers, Tulane and Harvard and international relations at Cambridge University, Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. And he has been a Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.