Thursday, February 16, 12:30
Room C-103 Hesburgh Center

"Making Moral Sense of Amnesty within the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission"
Lecture by Wilhelm Verwoerd, Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, Ireland; former researcher at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Since May 2002 Wilhelm Verwoerd has coordinated the Former Combatants Programme at the Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, (www.glencree.ie). The Programme is aimed at cultivating relationships between all armed parties to the 'Troubles' and promoting dialogue between victims/survivors, ex-combatants and the wider society on the islands of Ireland and Britain. This work includes the Glencree Sustainable Peace project, that cultivates relationships between peacebuilders in Ireland, Britain, and South Africa. Before he came to Ireland in 2001, as the husband of the South African ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, he was a philosophy lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. He also served as a researcher on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He holds a PhD in Philosophy (University of Johannesburg), and has co-authored, authored and edited a number of books and articles. Wilhelm brings a unique personal perspective to his subject matter; he is the grandson of Hendrik Verwoerd, the South African prime minister (1958-1966) who is regarded as the "architect of the apartheid state."

 

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The John Howard Yoder Dialogues on Religion, Nonviolence and Peace

"The Kiss of Betrayal: From Family to 'Friendship in Faith' "
Featuring Avishai Margalit

Monday, February 20, 11:00 a.m.
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
(Lecture followed by luncheon in the Great Hall
and dialogue in Room C-103)

Avishai Margalit is an internationally known philosopher and author. His books include The Ethics of Memory, A Decent Society , and Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (with Ian Buruma).He has published widely in philosophical journals on such topics as philosophy of language, logical paradoxes and rationality, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. Margalit was born in Israel (Palestine) in 1939. After army service and a stay in a kibbutz, he began his study of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is there that he obtained his B.A., M.A. and his Ph.D. degrees. He joined the faculty at the Hebrew University in 1970, where he is the Schulman Professor of Philosophy.

Margalit is 2001 winner of the Spinoza Lens Prize, awarded by the International Spinoza Foundation, for "a significant contribution to the normative debate on society." He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. He was among the founders of Peace Now.

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Wednesday, February 22, 12:45
Room C-103 Hesburgh Center

"Modern Islam in the Crucible of Religion and Identity"
Lecture by Abdulkader Tayob, professor, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Radboud University, Netherlands

Understanding modern Islam lies between contextual and essentialist approaches. The former makes Islam irrelevant, while the latter essentializes Islam beyond history. Tayob suggests that the categories of religion and identity can help us to avoid the pitfalls of these two approaches. They can assist us in understanding the distinctive changes within Islam and Muslim societies in the modern period.

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Thursday, March 2, 12:30
Room 103, Hesburgh Center

Lecture Series: New Directions in Peace Research.
" Can Forgiveness be a Social as well as a Political Reality?"
Robert Enright, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Robert Enright is a pioneer in the scientific study of forgiveness. He is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a position he has held since 1978. He co-founded the International Forgiveness Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge about forgiveness and community renewal through forgiveness. He is the author or editor of 4 books, and over 80 publications centered on social development and the psychology of forgiveness. Enright developed the idea that the development of capabilities of reasoning about forgiveness paralleled the development of capabilities at reasoning about justice, which had been developed by Harvard Psychologist, Lawrence Kohlberg. Enright explored these ideas in the United States and in other countries showing evidence toward a universality of the developmental processes. He also developed an early intervention to promote forgiveness, which he calls the "process model of forgiving." This 20-step model has been tested by Dr. Enright and others largely in therapeutic situations.

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Monday, March 20, 4:00 pm
311 DeBartolo Hall

"Separation of Religion and State Around the World: How to Measure it, Who Has it, and How it Influences Politics and Society"

Jonathon Fox, Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Jonathon Fox is lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. His areas of research concentration are international and domestic conflict, especially ethnic and religious conflict; the influence of religion on politics, including conflicts, international relations and separation of religion and the state; as well as the quantitative analysis of Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" theory. Among other books, he recently published Bringing Religion into International Relations (2004) with Shmuel Sandler. Fox is the recipient of a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (Academia) for the project, Religion and State in Post Cold War Era, which has collected information on separation of religion and state, or the lack thereof, for 175 countries. He received his Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1997.

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THE REV. THEODORE M. HESBURGH, C.S.C. LECTURES

IN ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY 

Featuring Mary Kaldor

Hesburgh Center Auditorium

"The New Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"

Tuesday, March 28, 4:15 p.m.

"Just War and Human Security"

Wednesday, March 29, 12:30 p.m.

        Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics. She is highly regarded for her innovative work on democratization, conflict, and globalization. She is the author of New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (1999), which has been translated into 12 languages and several editions. In it, she argues that, in the context of globalization, what we think of as war - that is to say, war between states in which the aim is to inflict maximum violence - is becoming an anachronism. In its place is a type of organized violence that could be described as a mixture of war, organized crime and massive violations of human rights.
         Kaldor is also the author of Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (2003), and is co-author of the annual Global Civil Society Yearbook. She was convenor of the Study Group on European Security Capabilities, which produced the influential Barcelona report, “A Human Security Doctrine for Europe.” She is a founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament (END), founder and co-chair of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly and a member of the International Independent Commission to investigate the Kosovo Crisis, established by the Swedish Prime Minister. Her work was recognized with the receipt of CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2003 for “services to democracy and global governance.”

4:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 11
Hesburgh Center Room C-103

"Women making peace: A Philippines initiative"

A lecture by Myla Leguro

Around the world, women are not just the victims of conflict, but among those who hold communities together and press the hardest for peace. Yet, they are not often among those most involved in peace processes. There are efforts to change that on the island of Mindanao, where religious and ethnic conflict has been a way of life. Myla Leguro will explain those efforts, including an initiative designed to involve women in drafting and implementing a peace agreement. Leguro is Peace and Reconciliation Program Manager for Catholic Relief Services in Davao City, the Philippines, and a visiting fellow at the Kroc Institute.

 

Thursday, April 27, 2006
12:30 p.m.
Room C-103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies

"Shoot First, Ask Questions Later: Preventive and Pre-emptive War"

A lecture by Dan Lindley, Assistant Professor of Political Science and fellow of the Kroc Institute


About one-third of all wars are preventive or pre-emptive -- launched in response to potential, rather than real, acts of state aggression. The Iraq War, 9/11, and the campaign against terror have thrust the validity of such wars to the fore in debates about policy and international law. What is the difference between preventive war and pre-emptive war? Is either legal? How has legal theory evolved since 9/11? In this talk, Dan Lindley, assistant professor of political science, will review the legal theory and actual practice of preventive and pre-emptive war. He will shed light on legal instruments such as the United Nations Charter, and on key cases invoked by scholars. He will explain the prevalence of such wars throughout history, and consider how laws are being shaped that will affect future wars.

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