The second Public Lecture of the ninth course of the Managing Global Governance programme has been delivered by Vivienne Jabri, Department of War Studies, King's College London, UK. In her lecture Jabri focused on the relationship between globalisation, global governance and national sovereignty. She discussed one of the most important controversies of global governance: how to resolve the tension between the traditional understanding of sovereignty which is still widely shared in the international community and the international responsibility of nation states. In particular, she refered to the controversy on the “Responsibility to Protect” nom.

• Vivienne Jabri, Department of War Studies, King's College London, UK
• Discussant: Jörn Grävingholt, Department “Governance, Statehood, Security", German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
• Moderator: Nina Kielwein, Division Regional and Global Governance, Security Policy and Rule of Law, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

The MGG Public Lecture Series features eminent scholars and high-ranking officials from partner institutions of the MGG programme. In contrast to the closed sessions of the Global Governance School, the MGG Public Lectures are open for the public offering the opportunity for interesting debates among experts from Germany/Europe and rising powers.

The Global Governance School is the scholarly part of the Training and Dialogue Programme "Managing Global Governance" (MGG), an initiative of the German Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ), implemented jointly by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The programme is aimed at highly qualified young professionals from currently eight anchor countries (Egypt, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan and South Africa), who work in government bodies, policy-oriented think tanks and research institutions.