| Distinguished
Peacemakers Lectures Series |
Bill and Sally Hambrecht
Distinguished Peacemakers Lectures at AUBGareth
Evans- Preventing and Resolving Deadly Conflict: What Have
We Leaned?.
Monday, November 10, 4pm, Auditorium A, West Hall, AUB.
Gareth Evan's Bio:
Gareth Evans has been since January 2000 President of
the Brussels based International Crisis Group, the
independent global NGO working with some 140 full-time staff
on five continents to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
He came to Crisis Group after 21 years in Australian
politics, thirteen of them as a Cabinet Minister. As Foreign
Minister (1988-96) he was best known internationally for his
role in developing the UN peace plan for Cambodia, helping
conclude the Chemical Weapons Convention, and helping
initiate new Asia Pacific regional economic and security
architecture. He has written or edited nine books-most
recently The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity
Crimes Once and for All, for publication September 2008- and
has published over 90 journal articles and chapters on
foreign relations, human rights and legal and constitutional
reform.
Full Text of the lecture
Robert
Malley- Can Washington Mediate Arab- Israeli Peace? Lessons
from Camp David II, the Clinton Years and Beyond.
Thursday, October 9, 5pm, Auditorium A, West Hall.
Robert Malley's Bio:
From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Malley was
Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli
Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian
Affairs at the National Security Council. In this
capacity, he served as a principal advisor to the
President and the National Security Advisor at the White
House on the Middle East peace process. Mr. Malley
joined the National Security Council staff in August
1994 as Director for Democracy. He helped coordinate
U.S. refugee policy and efforts to promote democracy and
human rights abroad.
Robert Malley has been Director of the International
Crisis Group's Middle East and North Africa Program
since January 2002. Prior to that, he was a Senior
Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
He also played a leading role in U.S.
policy toward Cuba. Mr. Malley is a graduate of Yale
University, Harvard Law School and Oxford University,
England, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author
of "The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution
and the Turn to Islam" and, with Hussein Agha, of "Camp
David:The Tragedy of Errors ," "The Last Negotiation",
"Three Men in a Boat" and "Hamas -The Perils of Power".
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News:
Read the OSLO 2008 Meeting Report. Some of the
participants from OSLO will be speaking at IFI as
Distinguished Peacemakers.
BEIRUT: A city that has suffered its share of conflict in recent
history, Beirut in the next two years will offer the region
and the world important lessons in political mediation and conflict-resolution.
Ten of the world's most experienced and
respected political mediators will visit the American University
of Beirut (AUB), where they will give public lectures, meet
with students and faculty, and hold workshops with fellow conflict-resolution
practitioners from Lebanon and the rest of the
Arab World.
The "Bill and Sally Hambrecht Distinguished Peacemakers
Lectures at AUB" launched in October 2007 with an inaugural
lecture by Alvaro de Soto, a distinguished Peruvian diplomat with 25 years
of experience as a United Nations senior official, envoy, and
mediator. He was a special UN representative and mediator involved
with the Arab-Israeli peace process, and conflicts in the Western
Sahara, El Salvador, and
Cyprus, among others.
At the conclusion of the series, the lectures will be collected
in a special volume to be published in 2009 by the Issam Fares
Institute at AUB, and made available internationally to students
and practitioners of conflict resolution and mediation. All
lectures will be available on the web in audio and video format
as well.
The lecture series is funded by a generous grant from Bill and
Sally Hambrecht, who stated on the occasion of the series inauguration:
"We are delighted to participate in this impressive series
of lectures by some of the world's most experienced political
mediators, so that their collective knowledge can be useful
to others working to resolve conflicts and spread the fruits
of justice, stability, peace and economic progress."
They noted that the Issam Fares Institute and the American University
of Beirut are ideal hosts for this series, because it "will
help to deepen and broaden the AUB's long-standing mission to
bring together people from all parts of the world who can learn
from each other in a spirit of truth-seeking and fraternity."
Issam Fares Institute Director Rami G. Khouri said that dates
for the visits of some of the world's most renowned mediators
are being fixed and the schedule of speakers will be announced
soon. The series will bring a speaker to AUB on average once
every two months, to spend two days on campus and in Lebanon.
He added the series aims to tap into the many lessons inherent
in the mediators' rich experience - both successes and failures
- and to enrich the conflict-resolution and peace-making community
in Lebanon and the Arab world.
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