WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15th
On Wednesday, September 15th, GLAPI and the OILP are
pleased to present a briefing by retired U.S. Army major
general Bill Nash. General Nash will be discussing post-conflict
capabilities and lessons learned from recent engagements
in the Balkans and Iraq.
The event will be held in Room 547 from 8:30am to 10:30
am. Please rsvp to Nena Heard at nheard@kentlaw.edu
312-906-5134 if you plan to be there as space is limited
and depending on turnout we may need to move to a larger
room.
Background of the speaker:
William L. Nash, a retired U.S. Army major general, is
the General John W. Vessey senior fellow for conflict prevention
and director of the Center for Preventive Action at the
Council on Foreign Relations,
Major General William L. Nash, USA (Ret.) has extensive
experience in peacekeeping operations, both as a military
commander in Bosnia-Herzegovina and as a civilian administrator
for the United Nations in Kosovo. He served in the Army
for 34 years, and is a veteran of Vietnam and Operation
Desert Storm where he commanded an armored brigade. He led
U.S. troops into Bosnia after the Dayton accords, and later
served as regional U.N. administrator in Kosovo.Since his
retirement in 1998, Nash has been a Fellow and Visiting
Lecturer at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government,
and Director of Civil-Military Programs at the National
Democratic Institute for International Affairs. In addition
to his duties at the Council, General Nash is an Adjunct
Professor at Georgetown University and a military consultant
for ABC News. He has been the Director of the Council’s
Center for Preventive Action since April, 2001.
MONDAY OCTOBER 4th
Chicago-Kent College of Law and the Global Law and Policy
Initiative are pleased to present a winner of the 2001 Millennium
Peace Award, Pakistani international human rights attorney
Hina Jilani as the first “Brown Bag Luncheon Speaker” for
fall, 2004. On Monday October 4th from 12 to 2pm in room
305 Ms. Jilani will be speaking informally about her work
defending the rights of women, minorities and children through
activist and legal strategies. For more information about
Hini Jilani please go to www.kentlaw.edu/international.
Bring your lunch to the talk - we will provide drinks -
please RSVP to Nena Heard at nheard@kentlaw.edu
so we know our approximate headcount!
THURSDAY OCTOBER 14th
Supported in part by the Canadian Consulate in Chicago,
Chicago-Kent will host an all day conference to examine
Strategies for Combatting Human Trafficking in the NAFTA
Region. Speakers will address the challenges of defining
the problem, describe current efforts at the regional, national
and international level to fight human trafficking, and
the final panel of the day will assess recommended policy
options in light of the current situation. There will be
a keynote address at lunch by Canadian Senator Jerry Grafstein,
and following the day's speakers, Chicago-Kent will host
a BENEFIT COCKTAIL PARTY AND FILM SCREENING of David Mamet's
film Spartan in support of the Midwest Immigrant and Human
Rights Center. For more information, watch this spot and
www.kentlaw.edu/international
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