On Tuesday, October 12, 2021 from
12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. we held a virtual Zoom conversation with Brian Concannon,
Executive Director at Project Blueprint.
The talk, entitled “Finding Accountability in the
Mirror: Helping Vulnerable Populations Enforce Their Human Rights Against
Powerful Countries and Institutions”, was moderated by Professor Kathy
Bergin.
About
our speaker:
Brian Concannon is Executive Director of Project
Blueprint, which promotes a progressive, human rights-based US foreign policy
by bringing the perspectives of people impacted by US actions abroad into
policy discussions. Brian is a Board Member of the Institute for Justice &
Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), and was its founder and Executive Director from
2004-2019. He lived in Haiti from 1995 to 2004, where he served as a Human
Rights Officer with the United Nations and Co-Managing Attorney with the Bureau
des Avocats Internationaux, a public interest law firm.