Tuesday, January 30, 4:15pm
Hesburgh Center, Room C-103

"A la guerre comme à la guerre: Patterns of Armed Conflict and Humanitarian Law Responses"

Lecture by Luc Reydams, Political Science, University of Notre Dame

Reydams has earned degrees in law and in political and administrative sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Université Catholique de Louvain.  He practiced law for a number of years in Brussels before pursuing an LL.M and JSD at the Center for Civil and Human Rights (Notre Dame Law School ). Reydams has published Universal Jurisdiction: International and Municipal Legal Perspectives with Oxford University Press (2003).  His articles and comments have appeared in the American Journal of International Law , Criminal Law Forum, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Revue Québecoise de Droit International, Annuaire de Droit Africain, European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice , and in other journals and books. He has held fellowships from the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law ( Germany ) and the University of Notre Dame Kellogg Institute. He worked as an intern with the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. 

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Thursday, February 1, 12:30pm
Hesburgh Center, Room C-103

"Subject to Success: Critical Insights from the Evaluation of Peacebuilding Programs"

Lecture by John Heathershaw, Kroc Institute Visiting Fellow

In this lecture John Heathershaw discusses his experiences as an evaluator of peacebuilding programs in Central Asia during 2005.  He argues that the exceptions and inceptions of monitoring and evaluation produce distorted pictures of peacebuilding interventions to meet the expectations of donor organizations.  Such subjectivities cannot simply be worked around but must be considered an inherent part of the political process of evaluation.  Heathershaw considers the critical space that may exist for better approaches and concludes that where possible a shift to qualitative and participatory evaluations is necessary.  

Heathershaw is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His dissertation is titled Peace as Complex Legitimacy: Politics, Space and Discourse in Tajikistan's Peacebuilding Process, 2000-2005.
During his time at the Kroc Institute, John will address some of
the implications of his dissertation findings, examining the role of
political Islam in peace and conflict dynamics in Central Asia. In addition, he will continue his work on other academic and non-academic projects related to conflict and peacebuilding in the region. 

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Tuesday, February 6, 4:15 p.m.
Hesburgh Center, Room C-103

"Is Another World Possible?"
Reports from the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi

Dawn Wiest, a post-doctoral associate in the Sociology Department and the Kroc Institute, and Christopher Hausmann, a Ph.D. student in Sociology will report on their research trip to the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.  They'll bring images and stories from the first World Social Forum held in Africa.  Discussion will address the political issues raised by African civil society organizations at the WSF, the challenges facing global civil society organizing, and ways to build upon the Nairobi meeting as U.S. activists prepare for the U.S. Social Forum (June 27-July 1, 2007). 

For daily reports and analysis of the World social Forum, interviews with leading activists, and links to some of the key websites and organizations, see: http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/wsf/index.asp.

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Thursday, February 8, 8:00pm
Hesburgh Center, C-103

"Israel's Security Environment"

Lecture by Efraim Inbar, Professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and Director of Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies

Born in Romania (1947), Professor Inbar was educated at the Hebrew University (B.A. in Political Science and English Literature) and at the University of Chicago (M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science).  His area of specialization is Middle Eastern strategic issues with a special interest in the politics and strategy of Israeli national security.  Prof. Inbar is widely quoted in the Israeli and international press and is a columnist for the Jerusalem Post.  He has authored four books: Outcast Countries in the World Community (1985), War and Peace in Israeli Politics. Labor Party Positions on National Security (1991), Rabin and Israel’s National Security (1999), and The Israeli-Turkish Entente (2001), and has edited eight collections of articles.  Among other visiting appointments, he served as visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University (2004), at Georgetown University (1991-92), and visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1996).  Prof. Inbar served in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) as a paratrooper, and he is presently posted (in reserve) at the IDF College of Staff and Command. He was a member of the Political Strategic Committee of the National Planning Council and the Chair of the Committee for the National Security Curriculum at the Ministry of Education.

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Monday, February 12, 3:00pm
Hesburgh Center Auditorium

"Islam and Democracy "

Lecture by Amien Rais, Chairman of the Advisory Board for Indonesia's National Mandate Party (PAN), and Professor, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia

Amien Rais, who earned his master’s degree from Notre Dame, was the leader of the 25-million member Islamic organization Muhammadiyah from 1995 to 2000 and chair of the People's Consultative Assembly of Indonesia from 1999 to 2004. Rais’ rise to power came in the wake of massive protests in Jakarta in 1998 that forced the resignation of President Suharto and led to the formation the reformist National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional/PAN). As speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly, Rais helped enact constitutional reforms that revived and amended Indonesia's democratic 1945 constitution. Rais and others worked to successfully elect Abdurrahman Wahid as president and Megawati Sukarnoputri as vice president in 1999. In the 2004 presidential election, Rais and Siswono Judohusodo earned 15 percent of the vote. 

Cosponsored with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies

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Tuesday, March 6, 4:15pm
Hesburgh Center, Room C-103

"The New Nuclear Danger and the Imperative of Disarmament"

Lecture by David Cortright, Kroc Institute Fellow and President, Fourth Freedom Forum

David Cortright, Kroc Institute Fellow and former executive director of the Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy, will examine the growing nuclear danger in the world, which prompted former Defense Secretary William Perry to declare “I have never been as worried as I am now that a nuclear bomb will be detonated in an American city.” Cortright will review the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the “deadly nexus” of global terrorism and nuclear proliferation, and US plans for building and possibly using new nuclear weapons. The lecture will explore proposals for reducing nuclear dangers, including the recent article in the Wall Street Journal by George Shultz, Henry Kissinger and others urging a “world free of nuclear weapons.” The presentation will conclude with an examination of the political and moral imperative for nuclear disarmament.

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Tuesday, March 20, 7:00pm
Debartolo Hall, Room 102

"The Ground Truth in Iraq:  A Marine's View"

Lecture by Liam Madden, Co-founder of Appeal for Redress

Honorably discharged as a Marine sergeant in January, Madden will speak about his experiences in Iraq and what made him begin to disagree with U.S. participation in the war.  Appeal for Redress is a movement of active duty, active reserve and Guard soldiers filing a private grievance with their elected officials against the Iraq war.

Cosponsored by the Progressive Student Alliance and the Center for Social Concerns

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Thursday, March 29, 12:30pm - CANCELLED
Hesburgh Center, Room C-103

"The Ongoing Reconciliation Process in South Africa"

Lecture by Yusuf Omar, Consul General for the South African Consulate-General, Chicago

Mr. Omar has served as Consul General since 2004 and represents the President of South Africa in fourteen states in the U.S. Prior to his appointment to the Chicago mission he served at the South African Consulate in Dubai where he was responsible for managing the Department of Trade and Industry’s Trade and Investment Promotion Plan and its officers in Ghana, Nigeria, Coite D’Ivore, Ethiopia, Egypt and the Middle East region.  His previous experience includes working with captains in the freedom struggle in South Africa in the Roodepoort community, a community that highly promoted apartheid.  His current work includes promoting the African Agenda, enhancing bilateral trade, and positioning South Africa’s comparative strengths as a growing economy.  Mr. Omar has a passion for the development of small-medium enterprises, particularly those who stem from a historically disadvantages background, and the defense of human rights with a focus on women’s rights.

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March 30-31
Hesburgh Center Auditorium

Student Peace Conference
“Unmask the Unknown: Understanding the Other, Discovering Ourselves”

The University of Notre Dame's Annual Student Peace Conference will take place on March 30-31, 2007. The conference is sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and is planned and directed by undergraduate peace studies students of the University.

This year, the conference is entitled "Unmask the Unknown: Understanding the Other, Discovering Ourselves". This year's conference will focus on the exploration of the "other" in the world around us, whether that unknown is distanced from us by national, cultural, or more local and personal boundaries.

The conference will feature seminars, lectures, artistic performances, exhibits, and a keynote speaker. We welcome undergraduate and graduate peace visionaries of all disciplines to submit proposals regarding potential presentations. We encourage presentations of peace from all disciplines and perspectives.

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The Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC Lectures
on Ethics and Public Policy

Lectures by Shashi Tharoor, Author and Former Under-Secretary-General, United Nations

Dr. Shashi Tharoor is the prize-winning author of nine books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the classic The Great Indian Novel (1989), India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997) and Nehru: The Invention of India (2003), as well as a widely-published critic, commentator and columnist (including for The Hindu, The Times of India and Newsweek). At the culmination of a nearly 29-year United Nations career including working for refugees and handling peace-keeping operations in the former Yugoslavia, Under-Secretary-General Tharoor was India’s candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as UN Secretary-General last year, and emerged a strong second out of seven contenders. Dr. Tharoor earned his Ph.D. at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at the age of 22, and was named by the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998 as a "Global Leader of Tomorrow."

Tuesday, April 17 at 4:15 p.m.
Hesburgh Center Auditorium, reception to follow

“Globalization, Terrorism and the Human Imagination” mp3 audio

Wednesday, April 18 at 12:30 p.m.
Hesburgh Center Auditorium

“The Future of the United Nations” mp3 audio

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April 20-21
Hesburgh Center Auditorium

Program in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding (PRCP) Conference
"Knowledge, Practice, and Political Agency:  The Religious Dimension in Conflict Settings”

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April 23-24
Hesburgh Center Auditorium

"Muslim, Christian and Jewish Views on the Creation of Wealth"

Twelve years ago the Interfaith Declaration of International Business Ethics was developed and promulgated by a group of distinguished Muslim, Christian, and Jewish leaders from business, banking, academia, and religious institutions in order to promote common business values in harmony with their religious teachings. Taking this Declaration as a starting point, the conference examines its impact and explores major challenges these faith traditions are facing in the global economy.

The particular focus is on the creation of wealth for three reasons: First, the process of wealth creation in the last 50 years has showed both winners and losers, which poses the question why some nations are so rich and some so poor. Second, the worldwide discussion about “corporate social responsibility” or CSR seems to overlook the question how companies can and should create genuine wealth. Third, the firm’s objective of "maximizing shareholder value” or “adding value” is widely assumed without critical examination in economic and ethical terms. Hence the question what wealth creation really means will be discussed from these multiple viewpoints.

For more detailed information, click here.

Co-sponsored with the Mendoza College of Business with the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business, Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide, Department of Economics and Policy Studies, Department of Philosophy, Department of Theology, Erasmus Institute, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and Nanovic Institute for European Studies.

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May 15
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Visions of Tolerance and Reconciliation in Religious Traditions

Cosponsored with Harvard Divinity School

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