2008 EVENTS

DECEMBER 11-12, 2008
"The United Nations and the Evolution of Global Values"
Thomas G. Weiss gave a presentation on the UN Intellectual History Project for a master class at Leiden University on 11 December, and on 12 December gave a presentation on The UN and Global Values.
Sponsored by University of Leiden

DECEMBER 5, 2008
Redistribution with Growth Seminar
Richard Jolly drew on UNIHP findings for his keynote address at a seminar on Redistribution with Growth.

DECEMBER 4-5, 2008
Workshop: "Field Research and Ethics in Post-Conflict Environments"
Sponsored by Program on States and Security

DECEMBER 2, 2008
Global Governance Seminar Series: "India and Financial Globalization"
John Echeverri-Gent, University of Virginia
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

NOVEMBER 21, 2008
"American Politics in the Age of Obama: A New Era?"
Adolph Reed, Jr., Frances Fox Piven, Liza Featherstone, Moderated by Nicolaus Mills
Sponsored by The Ph.D Program in Political Science, The Center for the Humanities, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, the Center or Place, Culture and Politics, The Graduate Center Advocate, the Global
Studies Collective, the Africa Research Group, and the Social and Political Theory Students Association

NOVEMBER 18, 2008
Global Governance Seminar Series: "India and the Changing International Security Environment"
Vikram Doraiswami, Permanent Mission of India to the UN
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

NOVEMBER 18, 2008
"What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It"
Thomas G. Weiss and Sir Brian Urquhart
Sponsored by Carnegie
Corporation of New York

NOVEMBER 5, 2008
Book Launch for Rebuilding War-Torn States
Featured Speaker and Author: Graciana del Castillo, Associate
Director and Research Scholar at Columbia University's Center on Capitalism
and Society; Moderated by: Thomas G. Weiss, Director, Ralph Bunche
Institute; With Comments by: Susan L. Woodward, Professor, CUNY
Graduate Center
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

NOVEMBER 4, 2008
Global Governance Seminar
Series: "Changing India in the World Political Economy"
Sanjay Reddy, Columbia University
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

OCTOBER 21, 2008
Global Governance Seminar Series: "India and the World Bank"
Devesh Kapur, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

OCTOBER 7 , 2008
Global Governance Seminar Series: "The Environmental Threat to India's Future"
Mira Kamdar, World Policy Institute
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
Roundtable discussion: "Uniting to Support R2P: Preserving the Spirit of the 2005 Agreement"
CHAIR: James Traub, Global Centre for the Responsibility
to Protect
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
NGO meeting with the Special Adviser to the Secretary
General with a focus on the Responsibility to Protect
PARTICIPANTS: Edward Luck, Oxfam, Human Rights Watch, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy, International Center for Transitional Justice, International Crisis Group, Refugees International, Security Council Report, Amnesty International, Save the Children
CHAIR: Nicola Reindorp and Nicole Deller, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, World
Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
Global Governance Seminar
Series: "A New Hope: India, the UN & the Making of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights"
Manu Bhagavan, Hunter College, CUNY
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
Fall 2008 Welcome Reception for Graduate Center Political Science Students
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008
"Transition in Pakistan: Ongoing security
challenges and the movement for democracy "
Sheila Fruman, National Development Institute (NDI) Country Director, Pakistan
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

AUGUST 19, 2008
R2P: Defending and Promoting the Concept
PARTICIPANTS: Don Hubert, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy, Security Council Report, Human Rights Watch
CHAIR: Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect staff
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

JULY 30, 2008
Crisis in Zimbabwe: Next Steps of Actions for the NGO community
PARTICIPANTS: Open Society Institute, Human Rights Watch,
International Center for Transitional Justice, International Crisis Group
CHAIR: Nicola Reindorp, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

JULY 25, 2008
Crisis in Zimbabwe: A Discussion with Haile Menkerios
PARTICIPANTS: Representatives from Ghana, Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Oxfam, International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch, Refugees International
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

JUNE 27, 2008
Crisis in Zimbabwe: Informal Lunch with GCR2P
SPEAKER: Haile Menkerios, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs; UN Special Envoy to Zimbabwe
CHAIR: Nicola Reindorp, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

JUNE 12, 2008
Panel Discussion: "Cyclone Nargis: Whose Responsibility to Protect?"
SPEAKERS: H.E. Mr. Vanu Gopala Menon, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Permanent Representative of the Republic of Singapore to the United Nations; H.E. Mr. Jean-Maurice Ripert, Permanent Representative of France to The United Nations; Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute; Charles Petrie, UN Special Advisor, former UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar
CHAIR: James Traub, Director of Policy, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

JUNE 5, 2008
Meeting: "Advancing the Responsibility to Protect"
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

MAY 22-23, 2008
"The United Nations and the Nuclear Challenge
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Friederich Ebert Stiftung Foundation, the Academic Council on the United Nations System, the Canada Research Chair in International Relations and Security Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada, and the UN University Peace and Governance Programme

MAY 12, 2008
Book Launch: The Role of France in the Rwandan
Genocide, Daniela Kroslak
SPEAKER: Daniela Kroslak, Deputy Africa Program Director, The International
Crisis Group
DISCUSSANT: Tatiana Carayannis, Associate Director, Conflict Prevention
and Peace Forum, Social Science Research Council
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The
International Crisis Group

MAY 1, 2008
Ralph Bunche Institute Film Series: "Representing Rights:" All About Darfur
SPEAKER: Alex de Waal, Program Director, SSRC; Fellow, Global Equity
Initiative, Harvard University; Director; Justice Africa, London
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, the Africa Research Group

APRIL 28-29, 2008
Meeting of GCR2P and Associated Centers
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

APRIL 24-25, 2008
"UN Ideas in Action: Past, Present, Future"
Public presentations for academics, public officials, NGOs, and the media
will be will be organized around the conclusions of four of the UNIHP
books, with presentations by their authors: Devaki Jain, S. Neil MacFarlane,
B. G. Ramcharan, and Sarah Zaidi.
Sponsored by United Nations Intellectual History Project (UNIHP), Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

APRIL 17, 2008
"Conflict in Sudan: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward"
SPEAKERS: Suliman Baldo, Africa Director, The International Center for
Transitional Justice; Fabienne Hara, Vice-President (Multilateral Affairs),
International Crisis Group, Former Deputy Director, Political Affairs
Division, United Nations Mission in Sudan
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, the Africa Research Group

APRIL 9, 2008
Global Governance Seminar Series: "What Campaigns Should We Be Fighting? And How?"
Sir Brian Urquhart
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

APRIL 3-4, 2008
Workshop: "Economic Strategy, Aid Policy, and the State in Countries Emerging from War"
Sponsored by Program on States and Security

APRIL 3, 2008
"Frontiers of Humanitarianism: Concepts and Cases" -- A Conference of the Consortium
on Security and Humanitarian Action"
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, School
of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, Institute
for International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University, and
Robert G.
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University

APRIL 2, 2008
Global Governance Seminar Series: "Westphalia and Dar al-Islam: Contending Concepts of World Order"
Professor Benjamin Rivlin, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

MARCH 26, 2008
Global Governance Seminar Series: "Recent Developments in the Horn of Africa"
Professor Alem Habtu, Queens College, CUNY
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

MARCH 19, 2008
Global Governance Seminar Series: "China’s Peaceful Foreign Policy and World Order"
Mr. Qi Qianjin, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic
of China to the United Nations
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

MARCH 12, 2008
"Moral Responsibility for Civilian Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan"
Neta Crawford, Professor of Political Science and African American Studies,
Boston University and Adjunct Professor, Watson Institute for International
Studies, Brown University
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Political
Theory Colloquium

MARCH 12, 2008
Global Governance Seminar Series: Title TBA
H.E. Ambassador Robert Hill, Permanent Mission of Australia to the United
Nations
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

MARCH 5, 2008
Ralph Bunche Institute Film Series: "Representing Rights:"Rendition
SPEAKER: Steve Crawshaw, United Nations Advocacy Director, Human Rights
Watch
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

MARCH 5, 2008
Global Governance Seminar Series: "Chilean Perceptions after 9/11"
H.E. Ambassador Alfredo Labbé, Permanent Mission of Chile to the
United Nations
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

FEBRUARY 28, 2008
"Chad: Reform of State Institutions or Continuation of War"
Gérard Gerold, Fellow, The Ralph Bunche Institute; Former Principal Political
Affairs Officer, Mission in the DRC
COMMENTATOR: Marijan Zumbulev, UN Advocacy Director, International Crisis
Group
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, the Africa Research Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2008
Launch of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
SPEAKERS: Vijay Nambiar, Chef de Cabinet to the UN Secretary-General;
Mary Robinson, GCR2P patron; Gareth Evans, co-chair, GCR2P International
Advisory Board; Mohamed Sahnoun, co-chair, GCR2P International Advisory
Board; Thomas G. Weiss, International Advisory Board member.
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

JANUARY 25, 2008
Workshop: "Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Connecting Research and Policy"
Sponsored by Program on States and Security

JANUARY 16, 2008
"Never Again: How Can the International Community Protect Populations at Risk?"
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect


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