October 4, 2005 Source: Carleton University: http://www.carleton.ca/duc/News/news10040502.html Prominent Harvard Professor to speak at Carleton-- Robert Rotberg to speak on Failed States in a Time of Terror -- Event:
Dr. Rotberg, Director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, will give aThought provoking lecture on failed states in a time of terror. When:
Friday, October 7, 2005
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Carleton Faculty and Canadian Government representatives will be on hand following the lecture for interviews Where:
Room 2017
Dunton Tower
Carleton University Background:
Dr. Rotberg is Director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is also President of the World Peace Foundation. He is author and editor, most recently, of When States Fail: Causes and Consequences (2004), State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror (2003), Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa 1960–2000 (2002), Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement in Africa: Methods of Conflict Prevention (2001), Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions (2000), Creating Peace in Sri Lanka: Civil War and Reconciliation (1999), Burma: Prospects for a Democratic Future (1998), War and Peace in Southern Africa: Crime, Drugs, Armies, and Trade (1998), Haiti Renewed: Political and Economic Prospects (1997), Vigilance and Vengeance: NGOs Preventing Ethnic Conflict in Divided Societies (1996), >From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Public Policy and Humanitarian Crises (1996), and The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power (1988, new ed. 2002). -30- For more information:
David Carment
Professor Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Carleton University
(613) 520-2600 ext. 6662 |
