World-Talks # John Packer
John Packer is the director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre and a professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. He has previously held positions at Essex, Tufts, Cambridge and Harvard Universities, prior to which he worked for the UNHCR, ILO, UNOHCHR, and OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and co-founded the Initiative on Quiet Diplomacy. Packer has advised numerous governments and NGO's on matters of peace and security, conflict prevention and resolution, diversity management, constitutional and legal reform, and the protection of human rights of minorities.
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