Joan B. Kroc Speaker Series

Thursday, October 21, 2004

"Implementing Northern Ireland's Peace Agreement:
Lingering Insecurity and Elusive Equity"

Charles Reilly, Ph.D.

From 1998-2003, Dr. Charles Reilly was director of the Peace Corps in Guatemala. He previously coordinated the civil society program of the InterAmerican Development Bank and served as vice-president of the Inter-American Foundation. The author or editor of five volumes and numerous articles on Latin American development and democratization, he taught previously at Georgetown and UCSD. Reilly recently returned from Ireland and Northern Ireland where he was looking at the implementation of the peace agreement as part of a Fulbright Fellowship to continue research on lessons learned from Guatemalan and Irish peace processes.

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Friday, September 17, 2004

“Threats, Challenges and Change:
The U.S. and the UN in the 21st Century”

Don Kraus

Executive Vice President of Citizens for Global Solutions

Don Kraus is the Executive Vice President of Citizens for Global Solutions, based in Washington, D.C. His lecture, followed by a question and answer period, will address how the UN needs to adapt to changing international challenges. From Iraq, to the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, efforts such as the establishment of the International Criminal Court and the Global Peace Operations Initiative are transforming the way the United Nations and the United States engage the world.

Previous to the strategic alliance between the Campaign for UN Reform and the World Federalist Association to form Citizens for Global Solutions, Don was Executive Director of the Campaign for UN Reform (CUNR) and its affiliated political action committee, CUNR PAC. Don also serves as the president of the Center for UN Reform Education, a UN reform think tank. Additionally, he currently co-chairs the Partnership for Effective Peace Operations (PEP), an NGO working group.

Don compiles the Global Solution Rating Guide, a bi-annual assessment of congressional voting records. He served as the editor of CUNR’s newsletter, The UN Reformer and has been quoted in the NY Times, the Washington Times, the Boston Globe, and been interviewed on the Public Radio International show, The World, and many other publications.

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Tuesday, April 13, 2004

"Where Is The Lone Ranger When We Need Him?
America's Search for a Postconflict Stability Force."

Mr. Roberto M. Perito

Special Advisor, Rule of Law Program, United States Institute of Peace

A former senior fellow at the Institute, Robert M. Perito joined the Professional Training Program at the United States Institute of Peace in 2004 after working as a special advisor to the Rule of Law Program. Before joining the Institute, he served as deputy director of the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program at the U.S. Department of Justice. In that role he was responsible for providing policy guidance and program direction for peacekeeping operations in Bosnia, East Timor, and Kosovo and in post-conflict environments in Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia.
Perito earlier served for more than 25 years as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State, retiring with the rank of minister-counselor. His career included service as deputy executive secretary of the National Security Council (1988–89). He received a Presidential Meritorious Service Award in 1990 for his leadership of the U.S. delegation to the Angola peace talks. Before joining the Foreign Service, Perito served as a rural development officer with the Peace Corps in Nigeria. He holds an M.A. in peace operations policy from George Mason University and holds faculty appointments at American and George Mason Universities. He is the author of The American Experience with Police in Peace Operations and Where Is the Lone Ranger When We Need Him? America's Search for a Postconflict Stability Force.

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Wednesday, April 2, 2003

"The West Against the Rest?
A Buddhist Response to the Clash of Civilizations"

Dr. David Loy

Professor at the Faculty of International Studies at Bunkyo University

Co-sponsored by the Theology and Religious Studies Department

David Loy is a tenured professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Bunkyo University in Chagasaki, Japan. Dr. Loy has also served as a Senior Tutor in the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore from 1978 to 1984. Dr. Loy received his BA degree from Carleton College in Northfield , Minnesota , and his MA in Asian Philosophy from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Loy then pursued his PhD in Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Loy undertook a Zen journey in 1971 that included attending a sesshin with Yamada Koun-Roshi in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Loy then moved to Kamakura in 1985 to continue koan study, and in 1987 he completed the formal course of koan study and was recognized as a Zen sensei. His most recent publications include A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack (2002) and The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory forthcoming in June 2003. Dr. Loy also sits on the editorial boards of Cultural Dynamics, Worldviews, Contemporary Buddhism, and the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.

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Thursday, March 27, 2003

"Just wars, the media, and duct tape"

James Goldsborough

Columnist for the San Diego Union Tribune

James O. Goldsborough is foreign affairs columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune and a member of the newspaper's editorial board, specializing in international issues. Goldsborough joined the San Diego Tribune as the editorial page editor in 1991. In 1992, he became the Union-Tribune's foreign affairs columnist. Prior to joining the newspaper, Goldsborough worked at the San Jose Mercury News as associate editor for seven years. Goldsborough spent 15 years in Europe as a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, the International Herald Tribune and Newsweek Magazine. He is a former Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign relations and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment. He is the author of Rebel Europe: Living with a Changing Continent, and of numerous articles on foreign affairs for national publications. He has also worked for the San Francisco Examiner, Honolulu Advertiser, and the Arizona Republic.

Goldsborough's column is syndicated nationally by Copley News Service. He lives in the San Diego community of University City.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2003

"China's Role in the North Korea Nuclear Crisis"

Dr. Susan Shirk

Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD, Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation

Professor Shirk is a political scientist whose research focuses on Chinese politics and economics, Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and U.S. policies toward Asia. From July 1997 to July 2000, she served as deputy assistant secretary for China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. From 1991-97, she was the director of the University of California's systemwide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), based at UC San Diego, during which time she founded the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, a track-two security forum. At present she is research director for security studies at IGCC. She is the author of How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC's Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms and The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China,and editor of Power and Prosperity: Economic and Security Linkages in the Asia Pacific. Previous publications include The Challenge of China and Japan and Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China. Shirk has also written numerous scholarly articles on Chinese politics and foreign policy. She has served on the Defense Policy Board, the board of governors of the East-West Center in Hawaii, the boards of the U.S.-Japan Foundation and the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations, the editorial board of the American Political Science Review, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Wednesday, February 19, 2003

"Maasai Rights in Kenya"

Moses Ole Koriata

Co-founder of the Maasai Indigenous Project

Samparuan Ole Koriata (Moses) is the co-founder of Maasai Indigenous Project (M.I.P) and Maasai Foundation of America, not-for- profit organizations working diligently to assist Maasai people in improving their quality of life. They are Maasai originated, inspired and lead community based initiative for the Maasai people. Over the years as a student, Ole Koriata has shared the beauty and culture of his homeland with students and other people by taking them on Safaris and cultural missions to the Maasai People. As a result, he was able to start up his own Safari Company, ALLACCESS Safaris. This was a personal dream to create economics opportunities for his people by utilizing the local available resources for the betterment of their lives. He is the Chief Executive Officer and Owner of the Company. In America, he acts as a symbolic and cultural ambassador of goodwill helping bring this relatively traditional and preserved society into a broader sphere of awareness’ to the outside world. Seeking solutions to the problems that Maasai society face can be tackled with the preservation of cultural norms but with the aid of resources and generosity of Christian organizations and others.

Moses studied International Business Administration at United States International University (Now Alliant International University), San Diego in the United States from 1997 to 2000. In the fall of 2000 to 2002, Ole Koriata (Moses) joined National University to pursue a Masters of Science in Electronic Commerce.

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Thursday, February 13, 2003

"The Role of Religion in the Conflict in the Philippines"

Archbishop Orlando Quevedo

Archbishop of Cotabato, Philippines

Co-Sponsored by the Union of Pan Asian Communities

Orlando Quevedo, the Archbishop of Cotabato, Philippines , was ordained a priest of the Missionary Congregation of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) in 1964 in Washington , DC. He received his Ph.D. in education administration at the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines in 1969 and has been the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines since 1999. The Archbishop has been an outspoken proponent for peace in his archdiocese, which includes areas claimed by Muslim separatists. Archbishop Quevedo was Bishop of Kidapawan, North Cotabato, from 1980 until his transfer in 1986 to Vigan, part of the northern Philippine Ilocos region that the late president Ferdinand Marcos claimed as his bailiwick. Earlier, he spent years of his priesthood in the Oblate-run Cotabato archdiocese as an educator. From 1970-1976, he was president of the congregation's Notre Dame University in Cotabato City. In 1979 he became superior for a year of the Oblate House of Theology in Quezon City, just north of Manila. When he was named to the Vatican 's justice and peace council, Archbishop Quevedo had been chairman of the Philippine bishops' Commission for Social Action, Justice and Peace and had served as member of the Office of Human Development of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences. Since becoming bishop in 1980 he has been on drafting committees for key documents of the bishops' conference, including papers of the 1991 Second Plenary Council of the Philippines.

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Monday, February 10, 2003

"Religious Extremism and Global Violence:
What We Knew before September 11-and Why We Ignored It"

Dr. Scott Appleby

Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Scott Appleby (Ph.D. University of Chicago,1985) examines the roots of religious violence and the potential of religious peacebuilding. He teaches courses in American religious history and comparative religious movements. From 1988 to 1993 Appleby was co-director of the Fundamentalism Project, an international public policy study conducted by the American Academy of arts and Sciences. From 1982 to 1987 he chaired the religious studies department of St. Xavier College, Chicago. Appleby is the author of The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation (Rowman & Littlefield 2000), and editor of Spokesman for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East (University of Chicago 1997). With Martin E. Marty, he co-edited the five-volume Fundamentalism Project (University of Chicago Press). Appleby is also the author of Church and Age Unite! The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism (Notre Dame 1992), co-editor of Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America (Indiana 1995) and co-author of Transforming Parish Ministry: The Changing Roles of Clergy, Laity, and Women Religious (Crossroad, 1989). He has been a fellow of the Institute since 1996.

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Thursday, January 9, 2003

"Is Peace Possible in the Democratic Republic of Congo?"

The Honorable Dr. Faida Mitifu

Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the U.S.

During the mid-nineties, Ambassador Mitifu was among the most active members of the All North American Conference on Zaire (ANACOZA), an organization of Congolese intellectuals actively working to end the long standing kleptocratic dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko and to pave the way for democracy and good governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Following the ouster of Mobutu, President Laurent Desire Kabila handpicked Ambassador Mitifu to be his representative to Washington in 1998. Since her arrival in the US capital, she has had the daunting task of representing a country torn by a vicious war of aggression and greed which has taken the lives of 3 million people in the space of three and a half years. Since her appointment as Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Washington, Mitifu has testified before the Congressional Subcommittee on Africa on the crisis in the Great Lakes region.

After President Kabila's brutal assassination in January 2001, Ambassador Mitifu spearheaded Congo's foreign relations by presenting to the world the DRC's new beacon of hope: Major General Joseph Kabila, the current Congolese President. Following Ambassador Mitifu's recommendations, President Joseph Kabila made two trips to the United States in 2001.

Ambassador Mitifu received a Doctorate degree in French and Francophone Literature at the University of Georgia.

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Friday, October 25, 2002

Palden Gyatso

Tibetan monk

Mr. Gyatso was imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese for thirty-three years. He was exposed to various forms of indoctrination and torture aimed at trying to make him change his ways and accept the Chinese communist ideology. Throughout his imprisonment, Palden resisted the Chinese repression and served as an inspiration to his fellow inmates. Since 1992, He has devoted his life to exposing the atrocities of the Chinese occupiers, especially among political prisoners. He has traveled and spoken extensively around the world. In 1997 Palden's story, The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk, was translated by Tsering Shakya and published by Grove Press.

With thanks to San Diego Friends of Tibet.

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Thursday, September 12, 2002

Ghassan Andoni

Founder & Executive Director of the
Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between People (PCR)

Mr. Andoni will talk about non-violence and the current state of affairs in the Middle East. He co-founded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) along with the American husband-and-wife team Huwaida Arraf and Adam Shapiro, Israeli peace activist Neta Golan, and other Palestinians. Hundreds of internationals from around the world have since traveled to the West Bank and Gaza to resist the Israeli occupation by participating in nonviolent direct actions, including removing roadblocks, delivering food and medicine to Palestinians under curfew, riding in ambulances with Palestinian emergency medical workers, and acting as human shields between Israeli occupation soldiers and Palestinian families. Both the PCR and ISM work in alliance with other Palestinian and Israeli peace groups, including Women's Coalition for a Just Peace, Gush Shalom, Women in Black, Alternative Information Center (AIC), Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Rabbis for Human Rights, and the Christian Peacemaker Teams.

With thanks to International Solidarity Movement.