"The age of humanitarian intervention to protect civilians is not over, because civilians keep dying."–Michael Ignatieff, 2014 Michael Ignatieff is an outspoken public intellectual and a prolific writer on political philosophy, international affairs and conflicts caused by ethnic and religious strife. A politician and a scholar, he has applied his unique perspective to the study of war, religion, ethnicity and politics. His writings have addressed conflict in many countries including Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Kosovo, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Between 2006 and 2011, he served as a Member of Parliament in Canada and then as Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition. He is a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and holds eleven honorary degrees. Ignatieff is the author of seventeen books including Virtual War, winner of the Orwell Prize in 2001, and The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2005). Other major titles are The Needs of Strangers (1984), Scar Tissue (1992), Isaiah Berlin (1998), The Rights Revolution (2000), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001), and Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics (2013). He is the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and also serves as Centennial Chair at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs in New York. This lecture is supported by a grant from John Whiteman and is part of the series Religion and Conflict: Alternative Visions at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at ASU.