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The America and the World 2007-2008 Lecture Series Presents:
"Sudan - What's next?"
With Ambassador Tom Vraalsen
Monday, January 28, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Robinson Auditorium
This event is free and open to the public.
 Biography: Ambassador Vraalsen has been serving as the Chairman of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) since December 2005. He has served as Advisor to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since July 2004 and the Special Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs for the Sudan since June 1998.
Ambassador Vraalsen joined the Norwegian Foreign Service in 1960 and has held a number of distinguished positions, including: Ambassador to Finland (2001-2003), Ambassador to the United States (1996-2001), Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1994-1996); Assistant Secretary-General of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry (1992-1994); Minister of Development Cooperation (1989-1990); Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations (1982-1989); and Director-General of the Ministry's Department of Political Affairs (1981-1982).
On the multilateral level, Ambassador Vraalsen has served as Vice-President of the General Assembly and as Chairman of its Fourth and First Committees. He also was Chairman of a number of intergovernmental groups and committees, and served as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to South Africa (November 1992). Ambassador Vraalsen is the co-author of The United Nations in Focus (1975) and the author of the United Nations - Dream and Reality (1984).
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Sponsored by the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), the International Affairs Group (IAG), the International Studies Program (ISP), and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
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The America and the World 2007-2008 Lecture Series Presents:
"Conflict and Health in Iraq: A Man-made Disaster"
With Professor Wael Al-Delaimy
UC San Diego, School of Medicine
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
4:00 PM
IR/PS Room 3202
This event is free and open to the public.
 Abstract: For the last 28 years Iraq as a nation has undergone major tribulations unlike any other nation in recent history. During this 28 year period an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Iraqi have suffered premature death.
Dr. Al-Delaimy's presentation will touch on recent history from the point of view of public health and the consequences of the internal and external conflicts that helped produce one of the worst man-made health disasters. He will present his personal experiences and literature documenting the events.
Biography: Dr. Al-Delaimy completed his medical and public health training in Baghdad, where he practiced as a physician, and has a PhD in Epidemiology from Otaqo University in New Zealand. He worked with the World Health Organization and Harvard University prior to his current position at the UCSD School of Medicine. Involved in public health advocacy for the last 10 years, he has presented on the topic internationally.
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Sponsored by the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), which is an organized research unit part of the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).
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"Turkish Christians and German Muslims: Cultural Racism, Fears of Religious Conversion, and National Security in the New Europe"
With Professor Esra Ozyurek
UC San Diego
Thursday, January 31, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 107
Lunch is provided so please RSVP to mlabouff@ucsd.edu by Friday, January 25, 2008 at 4:00 PM.
 Abstract: At the turn of the twentyfirst century in two secular countries, Turkey and Germany, converts to minority religions have been officially defined as threats to national security. In this presentation I explore the terms and conditions of this emergent fear of religious converts in two countries as a window to the shift from biological racism towards cultural racism in the post-Cold War European political discourse.
Biography: Esra Ozyurek is an Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology at UCSD. She received her PhD at the University of Michigan. She works on secularism and religion, ideologies of state and citizenship, social memory, and religious conversion. She published Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey (Duke University Press, 2006) and Politics of Public Memory in Turkey (Syracuse University Press, 2006).
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Sponsored by European Studies at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
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IICAS South Asian Studies Presents:
Professor Suneeta Krishnan
Topic TBD
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 107
This event is free and open to the public.
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Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff (858) 822-5297 or mlabouff@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by South Asian Studies at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
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The Project on International Affairs presents:
"The Credibility of International Commitments"
With Professor Michael Tomz
Stanford University
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
IR/PS Dean's Conference Room
This event is free and open to the public.
 Biography: Michael Tomz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His interests include international relations, political economy, public opinion, and statistical methods. Michael holds an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Michael is the author of Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt Across Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2007). He has also published in various journals, including the American Economic Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, International Organization, and Political Analysis. His current research on the credibility of international commitments is supported by a five-year CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation. He is also engaged in NSF-funded research about spatial models of voting.
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Sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
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International Law Series Presents:
"The End of Exceptionalism in War Crimes"
With Ambassador David Scheffer
Northwestern University Law School
Thursday, February 21, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
IR/PS Room 3201
This event is free and open to the public.
 Abstract: American exceptionalism may have a place in international politics, but this concept has run its course in the sphere of international criminal justice. The rule of law debacles in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo have been the death-knell of exceptionalism in the war crimes business. No nation should ignore its duty to bring war criminals to justice or otherwise shield its own leaders or soldiers from charges of atrocity crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) is here to stay. Any claim that the US may have to the moral high ground in foreign policy will be difficult to sustain without U.S. participation in the ICC. The United States needs the ICC to help restore its global credibility, discipline its own decision-making, and strengthen judicial intervention against atrocity crimes. We need a strategy for cooperation with the ICC and ultimate ratification of the Rome Statute of the ICC.
Biography: David Scheffer is the Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He teaches international criminal law and international human rights law. He is a former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) and was deeply engaged in the creation of and U.S. support for the international criminal tribunals during the Clinton Administration. Amb. Scheffer led the U.S. delegation during the U.N. negotiations on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the United States on December 31, 2000. During the first term of the Clinton Administration, he served as senior adviser and counsel to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Madeleine Albright, and on the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council. He has published extensively on international law and politics and is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars. Amb. Scheffer is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Law Students Association.
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Sponsored by California Western School of Law, American Branch of the International Law Association, American Society of International Law-West, and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
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"International Intervention and Humanitarian Crisis"
With Gillian Sorensen
United Nations Foundation
Monday, February 25, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
ERC Great Hall
This event is free and open to the public.
Biography: From 1997 to 2003, Ms. Gillian Sorensen served as Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations on appointment by Secretary-General Kofi Annan. She was responsible for outreach to non-governmental organizations and was the contact point for the Secretary-General with parliamentarians, the academic world, religious leaders and other groups committed to peace, justice, development and human rights.
Prior to that, Mrs. Sorensen served from 1993 to 1996 as Special Adviser for Public Policy on appointment by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali where her duties included directing the UN's global Fiftieth Anniversary observances in l995. She led the planning of conferences, debates, documentaries, concerts and exhibits; the preparation of books and curricular materials, and the coordination of the UN50 Summit at in which l80 Presidents and Prime Ministers participated. She is an experienced public speaker and often represented the World Organization in this country and abroad.
Mrs. Sorensen earlier served for over 12 years (1978-1990) on appointment by Mayor Edward I. Koch as New York City Commissioner for the United Nations and Consular Corps, head of the City's liaison with the world's largest diplomatic community. Her responsibilities included matters related to diplomatic security and immunity, housing and education, and other cultural and business contacts between the host city and over 30,000 diplomats. She secured Federal reimbursement to New York for the costs of diplomatic protection, which continues to this day. During this time, she was described as 'the diplomat's diplomat" by the New York Times.
Gillian Sorensen is a graduate of Smith College and studied at the Sorbonne. In the fall of 2002, on leave from the UN, she was a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government (Institute of Politics) at Harvard University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow at the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy. Previously, she served as a Board Member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on appointment by the President of the United States. In addition to her public service, she has been active in politics and was a delegate to three national Presidential conventions. She is married to Theodore C. Sorensen, writer and attorney.
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Sponsored by the International Affairs Group (IAG), the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), the United Nations Association San Diego (UNASD), and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) .
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International Law Series presents:
"Outsourcing War and Peace"
With Professor Laura Dickinson
University of Connecticut
Thursday, March 27, 2008
12:10 PM - 1:15 PM
Moot Court Room, California Western School of Law
This event is free and open to the public.
 Biography: Laura Dickinson is a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. During 2006-2007, Dickinson was a visiting research scholar and visiting professor in the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University. She also has served as a senior policy adviser to Harold Hongju Koh, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor at the U.S. Department of State, and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Harry Blackmun and Stephen Breyer. Her work on transitional justice, legal responses to terror, foreign affairs privatization, and the relationship between international and domestic law is widely published. She is currently at work on a book, entitled Outsourcing War and Peace, which focuses on foreign aid and the increasing privatization of military functions.
Sponsored by California Western School of Law, American Branch of the International Law Association, American Society of International Law-West, and the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).
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