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Jennifer M. Welsh is Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College. She is the author, co-author, and editor of a series of works on international relations. Her most recent publications include Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2004); At Home in the World: Canada's Global Vision for the 21st Century (HarperCollins Canada, 2004): Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada's Aid Program, edited with Ngaire Woods (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007); and The United Nations Security Council and War, edited with Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, and Dominik Zaum (Oxford University Press, 2008). She is also the co-editor of a Special Issue of Ethics and International Affairs on the ethics of post-conflict reconstruction (Summer 2009).

Her current research projects include the evolution of the notion of the 'responsibility to protect' in international society and a critique of conditional notions of sovereignty. Professor Welsh was the Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Massey College (University of Toronto) in 2005, and is a 2006 recipient of both a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship and a Trudeau Fellowship. She is a trustee of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and sits on the editorial board of the BISA series in International Relations (published by Cambridge University Press) and the Global Responsibility to Protect journal. Since October 2008, she is the co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.

Professor Welsh holds a Bachelor in Policial Science from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters and Doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She has taught international relations at the University of Toronto, McGill University and the Central European University in Prague.

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