{"id":49861,"date":"2014-11-07T04:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T04:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9ac0e4427384504ca31c8c26696df29c"},"modified":"2014-11-07T04:55:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T04:55:57","slug":"news-story-uk-to-fund-australian-scholars-participation-in-r2p-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49861","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK to fund Australian scholar\u2019s participation in R2P conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Next year is the 10-year anniversary of the unanimous adoption of the principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) at the UN World Summit. <\/p>\n<p>To mark the occasion, the British High Commission in Canberra will sponsor an Australian university student to travel to and participate in the \u2018Responsibility to Protect at 10 in the Asia-Pacific\u2019 conference taking place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 26-27 February 2015. <\/p>\n<p>Tom Burn of the British High Commission\u2019s Foreign &amp; Security Policy Team says: \u201cThis conference offers an excellent opportunity to explore how to embed R2P principles throughout the Asia Pacific region and globally. We particularly applaud the inclusion in the conference of a session looking at how R2P can be used to help prevent sexual violence in conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tom adds: \u201cWe value enormously the engagement we\u2019ve previously had with Australian R2P experts and activists. So we\u2019ve designed our competition to allow us to hear some of the latest ideas and perspectives in response to a question we\u2019ve been thinking about ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-to-enter-the-competition\">How to enter the competition<\/h2>\n<p>Applicants are asked to submit an essay of no more than 800 words in response to the question:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">How best can supporters promote the principle of Responsibility to Protect in Asia over the next 10 years, particularly in the campaign to prevent sexual violence in conflict?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The competition is open to Australian university students. Please submit entries to <a href=\"mailto:ppa.canberra@fco.gov.uk\">ppa.canberra@fco.gov.uk<\/a> by Sunday 14 December. <\/p>\n<p>We plan to invite the winning candidate to Canberra in late January for a day of R2P conversation before he or she travels to Phnom Penh in late February. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"notes\">Notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The sponsorship covers travel, accommodation and living costs for both the pre-conference trip to Canberra and the conference itself.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>This issue of ending sexual violence in conflict continues to be a priority for the UK Government, as demonstrated by the Global Summit on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict which took place in London in June.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essay competition to find Australian student to take part in Responsibility to Protect conference in Cambodia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}