About Mr Robert M. Young

Mr Young is a Legal Adviser in the Mines-Arms Unit in the ICRC's Legal Division, working on the ICRC's Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity initiative. He previously worked in Canada's foreign ministry on international law matters, especially IHL, representing Canada at meetings at the UN, NATO and on international treaties. He advised the Canadian Red Cross on the development of a national IHL programme and worked for the ICRC as Delegate in Ethiopia. Mr Young has been a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario, Canada) since 1995. He practiced law in a major firm in Ottawa, worked at the Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces to Somalia and at the Department of Justice (Canada). He is co-author of On the Front Line: Uprising in Enclavia, an IHL training simulation activity published by the Canadian Red Cross, and (with Maria Molina) of "IHL and Peace Operations: Sharing Canada's lessons learned from Somalia", YIHL, Vol. 1 (1998) 362.