Join us for a talk with Chase Madar, an attorney, author and journalist from New York. He is the author of The Passion of [Chelsea] Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower (Verso, 2013). Human rights lawyers in and out of government are weighing in on how wars should be fought: in the United States, the phrase “human rights-based approach to drones” passes without much comment in the legal academy and mainstream media. As human rights professionals enter the civilian and military institutions of government throughout North America and Western Europe, what is the effect of these humanitarian legal doctrines on warfare–and vice versa? Will this blossoming relationship bring about more humanity in warfare? Or is human rights being conscripted into ever more militarised foreign policy?