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2006-2007 International Law Series
Presents
"Constructing an International Enforcement Regime Against Transnational Organized Crime"
by Bruce Zagaris, ESQ.
January 16, 2007 12:10PM-2:00PM
Location: California Western School of Law
 Biography
Bruce Zagaris practices law in Washington, D.C., where he is a partner with Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP. He has served as a consultant, counsel, and lobbyist for 14 governments and served as counsel in more than 40 criminal trials on the national and international levels. His criminal work has included counseling on extradition and international evidence-gathering cases and testifying as an expert in international criminal cases involving money laundering and tax crimes. Zagaris was an adjunct professor for six years at the American University Washington College of Law, teaching international business criminal law.
The speaker series is co-sponsored by the International Legal Studies Program, California Western School of Law and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at the University of California, San Diego
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"Mass Abandonments of Female Genital Cutting in Africa"
with Molly Melching
Thursday, February 1, 2007 4:00PM- 6:00PM
Location: Robinson Auditorium
Map of the Robinson Auditorium building #463
Parking Instructions: 1 day pass for $6.00, metered spots 15 minutes for 25 cents, maximum 2 hours
Biography
 Living and working in Senegal for over 32 years, Molly Melching has dedicated her life to the empowerment of communities at the grassroots level. She has created two original basic education programs for women, adolescent girls, and their communities. Molly is is highly regarded for her expertise in non-formal education, human rights training, and social transformation. Her work with Tostan, the NGO which she founded in 1991, has brought her international attention for Tostan program's cross-cutting results in many areas of development-including reductions in infant and maternal mortality, increases in school and birth registrations, the emergence of female leaders, the abandonment of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) and early or forced marriages by over 1,000 villages in Senegal and now also in Burkina Faso. Molly received the Humanitarian Alumni Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999, the Sargent Shriver Distinguished Award for Humanitarian Service in 2002. In 2005, she was awarded Sweden's Anna Lindh Award for Tostan's work in human rights.
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Middle East Studies
Presents
"The Shi'a Revival: From Iran and Iraq to Lebanon and Beyond"
with Vali Nasr
Monday, February 5, 2007
7:00PM
Location: Great Hall (UCSD)
Map of Great Hall
Parking Instructions1 day pass for $6.00, metered spots 15 minutes for 25 cents, maximum 2 hours
 Biography: Vali Nasr is Professor and Associate Chair of Research at the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Fellow at the Dubai Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He is a specialist on political and social developments in the Muslim world and is the author of The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future (W.W. Norton, 2006); Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty (Oxford University Press, 2006); The Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Oxford University Press, 2001); Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism (Oxford University Press, 1996); The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama`at-i Islami of Pakistan (University of California Press, 1994); an editor of Oxford Dictionary of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2003); and co-editor of Expectation of the Millennium: Shi`ism in History (SUNY Press, 1989); as well as numerous articles in academic journals and encyclopedias. His works have been translated into Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Italian, Turkish, Persian, Chinese, Hebrew and Urdu.
Abstract: To most Western eyes, all Islamic movements look alike, and the central conflict in the Middle East is one between religion and secularism. Shockingly little has been written about the bitter divide between Shia and Sunni. Yet without understanding their ancient conflict-and its modern embodiment in the power struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia for political and spiritual leadership of the Muslim world-it is impossible to comprehend events across the so-called Shia Crescent, from East Africa through Iraq and Pakistan to India.
The provocative rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Saudi pressure on the United States not to unseat Saddam Hussein in 1991, the critical role of the Ayatollah Sistani and the religious establishment in Najaf (Iraq), the volatility of Pakistan today, and the consequences of the shift toward Shia power through American intervention-all this and more is explained in the light of the Shia/Sunni divide.
Sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), Eleanor Roosevelt College (ERC) and the International Affairs Group at the University of California, San Diego.
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"The Ruth Adams Graduate Student Essay Competition"
Who may submit: UCSD graduate students age 35 or younger.
Submission Process & Deadlines: Essay may be any length. Outside sources must be cited. Topic must be related to international civil society, which may include, but is not limited to:
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Standards of national and international conduct that restrain the use of violence
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Justice, the rule of law, and human rights
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Alleviation of the global inequities
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Advances in universal education and the diffusion of knowledge
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Global cooperation to protect the environment
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Improved frameworks of world organization to implement the above
Papers must be submitted via email to the staff of the IR/PS Journal of International Policy Solutions (ips_board@irpsmail.ucsd.edu) by March 1st, 2007. The winning essay will appear in the Spring 2007 edition of the Journal of International Policy Solutions, published by UCSD's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS). The winner of the annual prize will also be recognized on the IGCC website with a link to the prize-winning essay.
For more information: Please email the IR/PS Journal of International Policy Solutions at ips_board@irpsmail.ucsd.edu
or the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) Campus Programs office at igcc-cp@ucsd.edu.
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Upcoming Events
"Borders versus Migration: U.S. Mexico and Russia-Asia"
January 30th-February 1st, 2007
A conference to establish an interactive policy-oriented Research on International Migration Network
Location: Eurasia (RIMNET--Eurasia) San Diego, CA
Sponsored by the INO-Center (Moscow); the College of Arts and Letters, the Department of Political Science and the Program on International Security and Conflict Resolution (ISCOR) of the San Diego State University; the Institute for International and Comparative Area Studies and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego.
"Institutional Democracy Need Not Limit the Abuse of Human Rights"
By Robert Walker
Washington University in Saint Louis
Thursday, February 8th 2007
Location: Social Science Bldg 101
3:00PM-4:30PM
Histories of the Aftermath:
"The European 'Postwar' in Comparative Perspective"
Friday, February 16th- Saturday, February 17th 2007
Location: Deutz Conference Room
For more info please visit http://iicas.ucsd.edu/hota/
"Economics and Politics of Land Reform in India"
Pranab Bardhan
University of California Berkeley
Thursday, February 22nd 2007
3:30-5:00pm
Location: Social Science Bldg 107 (UCSD)
Sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS)
"Nuclear, Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Weapons"
Larry D. Johnson, United Nations Office of Legal Counsel
February 27, 2007, 12:10 PM
California Western School of Law
"Power and Agency: How Past Diplomacy Determines the Choice of Sides"
Robert Trager
University of California Los Angeles
Thursday, March 1st 2007 3:00-4:30PM
Location: Social Science Bldg 107 (UCSD)
Sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS)
and the Political Science Department at the University of California, San Diego. | 
