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Schauer Charges Students to Ponder Nature of Legal Reasoning 2/20/09 - Professor Frederick Schauer asked students to consider what it is to |
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The Eight Stages of Genocide 2/16/09 - GREGORY H. STANTON, the James Farmer Professor in Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington, is the Founder and President of Genocide Watch, the Founder and Director of the Cambodian Genocide Project, the Founder and Chair of the International Campaign to End Genocide, and the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Stanton served in the State Department, where he drafted the United Nations Security Council resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Burundi Commission of Inquiry, and the Central African Arms Flow Commission. A fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, he has been a Law Professor at Washington and Lee, American University, and the University of Swaziland. This Forum was co-sponsored with Students Taking Action Now, Darfur (STAND) and Genocide Awareness and Research Organization (GARO) and the Corcoran Department of History. |
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British Ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald Speaks on International Relations 2/13/09 - Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Great Britain's ambassador to the United States, spoke in the Dome Room at the Rotunda Feb. 13 on international relations. His talk was free and open to the public. Following his address there was a discussion of his remarks, led by U.Va. history professor Philip Zelikow, former executive director of the 9/11 Commission and former counselor of the U.S. Department of State, and David A. Leblang, the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance & Professor of Politics. |
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What's Wrong with Rendition? Lessons Learned from Maher Arar and His Year in Syria 2/13/09 - LORNE WALDMAN successfully acted as co-counsel for Maher Arar at the public inquiry into the circumstances behind Arar's deportation from the United States to Syria, where Arar was subjected to brutal torture. Practicing immigration and refugee law exclusively since 1979, Waldman co-organized a conference in 2006 that produced the Ottawa Principles on Anti Terrorism and Human and Civil Rights, and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall and the University of Ottawa. He has appeared as a witness before the House of Commons and Senate and is a frequent media commentator on immigration and refugee issues. Waldman was awarded the Louis St. Laurent Award by the Canadian Bar Association for his contribution to the legal profession in 2007. This Forum was co-hosted with the John Bassett Moore Society of International Law at the U.Va. School of Law. |
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China's Rise in Historical Context: Challenges of Strategy and Security 2/13/09 - Are China's military capabilities able to meet the challenges of the modern era? How will China address domestic policy issues regarding Tibet, as well as regional concerns posed by nations such as North Korea and Taiwan? Michael Swaine (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) joined Professor Evelyn Rawski (University of Pittsburgh) to discuss new security challenges facing the emerging power. This discussion was moderated by U.Va. Politics Professor Brantly Womack and is part of a semester-long series on China's Rise in Historical Context. |
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Repairing History: The Ethic of Responsibility to Remember 2/9/09 - Dean Maurice Apprey makes his remarks as part of the annual State of the Office of African-American Affairs address. The event took place in the Rotunda's Dome Room on February 9th at 7pm and was sponsored by the OAAA and the Black Leadership Institute. |
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Suicide Terrorism 2/9/09 - ASSAF MOGHADAM is Assistant Professor and Senior Associate at the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he directs West Point's Advanced Terrorism Studies Course and the CTC's Shia Ideology Program. He is also a research fellow with the International Security Program's Initiative on Religion in International Affairs. He is the author of The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and The Roots of Terrorism (Chelsea House, 2006). Moghadam's articles and book reviews have been published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, the Boston Globe, and the International Herald Tribune. |
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The Reckoning: Obama's Inheritance from the Bush-Cheney Years 2/6/09 - BARTON GELLMAN is a Special Projects Reporter at the Washington Post. His series on Vice President Cheney, with partner Jo Becker, won a 2008 Pulitzer Prize, a George Polk Award, and the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Gellman also shared a Pulitzer for national reporting in 2002, and his work has been honored by the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He is the author of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (Penguin Press, 2008). |
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