LAHORE: (Thursday, September 01, 2016): Punjab University Centre for South Asian Studies in collaboration with American Institute of Pakistan Studies and Punjab Higher Education Commission organized a seminar on “Force and Intervention and Humane Global Governance”. On this occasion an American Scholar Dr Richard Falk was the key note speaker while Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, Director CSAS Prof Dr Umbreen Javaid, Principal Law College Dr Shazia Naureen Qureshi, Resident Officer-I Prof Dr Sajid Rashid Ahmad, faculty members and M.Phil/ Ph.D scholars of Centre and Department of Political Science attended the seminar.

In his very thought provoking speech, Dr. Richard Falk gave the idea of global governance that was more ethical and humane. He said that its main aspects were the future of international law; climatic change and nuclear weaponization. He said the challenges in its way were to counter imperialism, injustice, global poverty, militancy and environmental disaster. However, he said, radical reforms were needed at institutional level to realize the dream of global governance.