Lloyd Axworthy
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| Born | Lloyd Norman Axworthy December 21, 1939) North Battleford, Saskatchewan,Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | United College, Princeton University |
| Siblings | Tom Axworthy, Robert Axworthy |
| Interests | Responsibility to Protect |
| Party | Liberal Party of Canada |
Attended the 1996 Bilderberg as Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Supports military interventions under a "human rights" pretext. | |
Lloyd Norman Axworthy is a Canadian politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. As Foreign Minister, he supported military interventions under a "human rights" pretext, which led among other things to the Kosovo war and later wars such as NATO's 2011 invasion of Libya.
He attended the 1996 Bilderberg meeting, and is brother of fellow Bilderberger Tom Axworthy, who was Chief Speechwriter to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Political career
A Princeton-educated academic, Axworthy entered federal politics in May 1979 as a Liberal MP. He held several Cabinet positions, including minister of employment and immigration (1980-83), minister responsible for the Status of Women (1980-81) and minister of transport (1983-84).[1]
In charge of Canada's diplomatic apparatus from the start of 1996 to the end of 2000, Axworthy supported weapons sales to Indonesian general Suharto, the US bombing Sudan and NATO's 1999 war on Yugoslavia. Axworthy justified the bombing of Serbia as a humanitarian intervention to save Kosovars, claiming "NATO is engaged in Kosovo to restore human security to the Kosovars."[2]
His notable human security endeavours included the successful adoption in December 1997 of the Ottawa Convention banning the production, use, stockpiling and transfer of anti-personnel landmines.[1]
After politics
As chair of the advisory board to the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) immediately following his term as foreign minister, Lloyd Axworthy actively promoted the responsibility to protect, the idea that the protection of human rights takes precedence over traditional non-interference in the affairs of sovereign states.[1]
He promoted NATO's 2011 invasion of Libya under this pretext,[3] which destroyed the Libyan state and led the country into anarchy.
- In September 2000, Axworthy returned to academia, joining the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. He has published Navigating A New World, a book on the uses of "soft power".
- In May 2004, he was appointed as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. He retired in June 2014.
- Axworthy was Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch.[4] He also sits on the advisory council of USC Center on Public Diplomacy and of Fair Vote Canada, and is an endorser of the Genocide Intervention Network and International Student Exchange, Ontario.
- In 2006, Axworthy was elected to the Board of Directors of Hudbay Minerals, Inc.[5]
- He was President of the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy.[6]
- Axworthy was installed as Chancellor of St. Paul's University College, a constituent institution of the University of Waterloo, in October 2014.[7] He retired from that position in 2017.
- Axworthy is the first Chair of the World Refugee & Migration Council, formed in 2017 by the Centre for International Governance Innovation.[8]
- Director, Pacific Council
- Endorser, Genocide Intervention Network
- Mentor, Trudeau Foundation [9]
- Advisory Council, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- Fellow (2007-08), USC Center on Public Diplomacy [10]
- Editorial Board, Global Responsibility to Protect [11]
- Patron, Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect [12]
- Patron, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect [13]
- Honorary Director, Civilitas Foundation [14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lloyd-axworthy
- ↑ https://yvesengler.com/2024/09/01/left-end-of-canadas-foreign-policy-still-pro-imperialism/
- ↑ https://www.cips-cepi.ca/2011/10/25/a-victory-for-the-responsibility-to-protect/
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/opinion/20bernstein.html
- ↑ https://hudbayminerals.com/news-media/default.aspx
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140629012311/http://www.wfm-igp.org/content/president
- ↑ https://uwaterloo.ca/stpauls/news/lloyd-axworthy-be-installed-first-chancellor-st-pauls-today
- ↑ https://wrmcouncil.org/about
- ↑ Trudeau Foundation Mentors, organizational web page, accessed April 7, 2013.
- ↑ Center Bios, USC Center on Public Diplomacy, accessed February 12, 2008.
- ↑ Editorial Board, Global Responsibility to Protect, accessed July 27, 2009.
- ↑ Patrons, Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, accessed July 27, 2009.
- ↑ Patrons, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, accessed December 11, 2009.
- ↑ Honorary Board, Civilitas Foundation, accessed December 12, 2010.