Responsibility to Protect. Rogers fiction prize. Sex assault.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, is quoted in an opinion piece in The Kingston Whig-Standard about the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine and the prevention of mass atrocities.
• CBC.ca announces that Trevor Ferguson, assistant professor n the Department of English, will be among three judges for the 2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, rewarding the best Canadian novel or short story collection of the year. The brief notes that Ferguson has written ten novels, including The River Burns (2014) and The Timekeeper (1995).
• Jennifer Drummond, coordinator in the Sexual Assault Resource Centre at Concordia, spoke with CJAD's Barry Morgan yesterday afternoon to discusses recent news relating to sexual assault (no link available).

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