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. Learn more about the Human Rights Research and Education Centre: https://cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca Check out more World-Talks: https://www.world-talks.com/ World-Talks features an online collection of interviews with human rights defenders from all over the world. Through these 10-minute interviews human rights defenders can tell their stories directly to a global audience and help shed light on the issues they face in their home countries. View talks on Discrimination, Migrant Rights, Minority Rights and more. Follow World-Talks on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldTalksNow Like World-Talks on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorldTalksNow2015/ Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzEX7kKXftL1Ys_a5_jhjCA