"Gareth Evans has been since January 2000 President of the Brussels based International Crisis Group, the independent global NGO working with some 140 full-time staff on five continents to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. He came to Crisis Group after 21 years in Australian politics, thirteen of them as a Cabinet Minister. As Foreign Minister (1988-96) he was best known internationally for his role in developing the UN peace plan for Cambodia, helping conclude the Chemical Weapons Convention, and helping initiate new Asia Pacific regional economic and security architecture. He has written or edited nine books-most recently The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All, for publication September 2008- and has published over 90 journal articles and chapters on foreign relations, human rights and legal and constitutional reform."