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Wesley Clark: Can NATO Survive Afghanistan?
Clark, a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations, opened the afternoon session for a Nov. 6 conference, "1989: Assessing the Collapse of Communism Twenty Years Later." The conference was organized by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Posted: 11/12/2009
Award-Winning Israeli Journalist Based in Territories Reflects on Family History, Denounces Gaza Attack
Shortly after accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women's Media Foundation, Amira Hass delivers two talks on campus sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies. "Diary of Bergen-Belsen: 1944-1945," Hass's mother's account of surviving the Nazi concentration camp, has been republished in English.
Posted: 11/5/2009
Obama Committed to Working with International Institutions, US Official Says
Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer looks at U.S. cooperation on issues from global warming to peacekeeping and human rights.
Posted: 11/3/2009
Scholar Survives Political Imprisonment in Iran
Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, tells the harrowing story of her time as a political prisoner in Iran to a packed room of scholars and well-wishers on campus. She was a guest of the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Center for Middle East Development.
Posted: 10/29/2009
Somaly Mam: 'We Have to Save Them'
Cambodian activist and author Somaly Mam has rescued more than 6,000 girls in Southeast Asia from sexual slavery and helped many to rebuild their lives. She spoke last month at UCLA's law school on how to go beyond mere talk in the fight against predators and organized criminals. Watch a video about the event.
Posted: 10/16/2009
Burkle Center Senior Fellow Prof. Suphamongkhon Appears on Thailand's "Diplomat Talk"
Burkle Center Senior Fellow Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon expresses his views about Thailand's relationship with North Korea.
Posted: 10/8/2009
Clock Ticking on Taiwan Strait Resolution
The coming three years may be the best chance for mainland Chinese and Taiwanese leaders to settle their differences, says former Taiwanese Foreign Minister Hung-mao Tien.
Posted: 10/7/2009
Former Pakistani PM Urges Open Talks on Afghanistan
Shaukat Aziz, who served Pakistan for eight years as finance minister and prime minister, argues in a talk at UCLA that global and regional powers will need to meet with all Afghan factions, the Taliban included, and offer a Marshall Plan for Afghanistan in order to put the country on the right track.
Posted: 10/2/2009
Human Rights Advocate Somaly Mam Speaks on Campus
Somaly Mam, founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation goes into detail about her personal experiences as a survivor of forced prostitution for Daily Bruin Radio. Somaly urges students to visit her website somaly.org in order to read testimonials, look at pictures and learn how to save lives.
Posted: 10/2/2009
Cambodia's Somaly Mam Addresses UCLA on Fight Against Sexual Slavery
In this video, activist and author Somaly Mam speaks on how to go beyond mere talk in the fight against predators and organized criminals.
Posted: 9/30/2009
Burkle Fellow Amy Zegart on KCRW: Prisoner Abuse and National Security
Amy Zegart discusses with other panelists on KCRW's "To the Point" about prisoner abuse, national security interests and President Obama's new Interagency Interrogation Group led by the FBI.
Posted: 8/25/2009
Prisoner Abuse and National Security
KCRW Podcast of Amy Zegart, Burkle Center Fellow; R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post National Investigative Correspondent; Jane Mayer, Investigative Reporter for The New Yorker; and, Tim Weiner, Author of 'Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA'
Posted: 8/25/2009
Alan Kuperman: Protecting Rebels Makes for More and Worse Conflicts
Strauss Cntr. Sr. Fellow Alan J. Kuperman argues for modifying the doctrine that the international community has a "responsibility to protect" people from mass atrocities. Intervene, he says, only on behalf of nonviolent groups.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Anna Spain: Preventing Atrocities Is the Challenge for R2P
In this video, University of Colorado-Boulder law professor and mediator Anna Spain proposes a new focus on conflict prevention within the framework of a "responsibility to protect" populations in danger. According to Spain, we can begin by learning lessons from past mass atrocities.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Balakrishnan Rajagopal on R2P
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Ford International Associate Professor of Law and Development at MIT and Director of the MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice, offers his reflections and experience with R2P at the Burkle Center's 2009 Annual Conference.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Ed Luck on R2P
Edward Luck is the Senior Vice President and Director of Studies at the International Peace Institute and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General. Luck made his remarks on his experiences with R2P as part of the UCLA Burkle Center's 2009 Annual Conference
Posted: 7/27/2009
Gareth Evans: We Must Never Stand By, Allow Genocide
In this video, former Australian Foreign Minister and International Crisis Group President and CEO Gareth Evans explains why the notion of a "responsibility to protect" populations in peril, or R2P, is taking hold internationally. Evans is the author of a landmark report about R2P as a mechanism for stopping genocide and mass atrocities.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Georgette Gagnon: Let's Take Practical Steps Against Genocide
In this video, the Africa Director of Human Rights Watch, Georgette Gagnon, tells why her organization pushed for the principle of a "responsibility to protect" to guard people from atrocities committed by their governments. The next step, Gagnon says, is to "operationalize" R2P.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Roberta Cohen on R2P
Roberta Cohen, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Senior Advisor to the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, discusses the role of R2P in her work. Cohen made her remarks as part of the UCLA Burkle Center's 2009 Annual Conference.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Language Teaching, Meet Innovation
This spring, two centers under the UCLA International Institute went live with standalone, online courses on Azeri and the Iraqi dialect of Arabic and with a custom application that allows instructors to share web-based lessons. Meanwhile, the New Language Classroom has added videos for instructors, and the Language Materials Project launched a portal for K-12 schoolteachers on "less commonly taught" languages.
Posted: 6/17/2009
Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala Publishes New Book: Does the Constitution Follow the Flag?
Kal Raustiala examines territoriality in American law and foreign policy. In the course of his timely and engaging narrative he changes the reader's perceptions of American territory, American law, and the evolving nature of American power.
Posted: 6/8/2009
Burkle Faculty Fellow Amy Zegart quoted in the NY Times on turf battles among spy chiefs
NYT's reporter Mark Mazzetti covers a recent dispute between Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence, and Leon E. Panetta, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Posted: 6/8/2009
How Obama Should Address Islamists and Jihadists
Bestselling author, columnist, and UC Riverside faculty member Reza Aslan has advice for the Obama administration on defeating transnational Muslim utopian radicals, or jihadists. Start, he says, by getting used to the idea of Islamists in politics.
Posted: 6/5/2009
Human Trafficking Escalates as World Economy Plunges
An Indonesian woman shared her story at the conference, "Impact of the Economic Crisis: Increase in Reports of Human Trafficking in LA County and Globally," co-sponsored by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center.
Posted: 6/5/2009
Bagram: Is it Obama's New Guantanamo?
Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala is quoted in a recent MSNBC article by Tom Curry on a ruling by Judge Bates which forces President Obama to confront the issue of the Afghan prison.
Posted: 6/3/2009
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