The following seminars are being sponsored or co-sponsored by the Ralph Bunche Institute.

The Ralph Bunche Forum

Spring 2010

Speaker Biographies and Background Reading

The Future of Liberal Peacebuilding
Roland Paris

8 February 2010
Room 9204, CUNY Graduate Center

Roland Paris is University Research Chair in International Security and Governance at the University of Ottawa. He is also the founding director of the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University, and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. His research interests are in the fields of international security, international governance and foreign policy. Paris' writings have appeared in leading academic journals including International Security and International Studies Quarterly. His book At War's End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict (Cambridge, 2004) won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving Global Order as well as the International Studies Association's prize for best book on multilateralism. He is also the co-editor of two other books on peacebuilding. Paris co-directs the Sustainable Peacebuilding Network, a collaborative research project involving more than two dozen scholars around the world, funded in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He is also co-editor of a book series on Security and Governance, published by Routledge. Before joining the University of Ottawa in 2006, he was Director of Research at the Conference Board of Canada, the country's largest think tank, and before that he was a foreign policy advisor in the Department of Foreign Affairs and later in the Privy Council Office. He has also been Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Visiting Researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. He has won two awards for public service, and four awards for graduate and undergraduate teaching. Paris holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, an M.Phil. from Cambridge University, and a B.A. from the University of Toronto. He lives in Ottawa with his spouse, Katie Paris, and their three children.

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The Rome Statute and the ICC
David Donat Cattin

24 March 2010
Room 5414, CUNY Graduate Center

David Donat Cattin (Ph.D Law, Italy) is the Director of the International Law and Human Rights Programme and Development Advisor of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), a network of over 1300 Lawmakers from 117 countries of all regions of the world (www.pgaction.org). Over the past seven years, Dr. Donat Cattin worked to promote the universality and effectiveness of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Statute in approximately 80 countries. Under his coordination, PGA Members contributed to the ratification process of 60 out the current 105 States Parties to the Statute, including some of the most recent ratifications/accessions, namely Mexico (2005), the Comoros (2006) and Japan (2007). Dr. Donat Cattin holds a Ph.D in International Law and Human Rights (2000) from the University of Teramo (Italy), Faculty of Law, and a 'magna cum laude' law degree (1999) from the LUISS-Guido Carli University of Rome (Italy), Faculty of Law. As a legal scholar and human rights activist, Dr. Donat Cattin made several publications and interventions in international fora. His writings on international criminal law appeared on well known scholarly works, such the TRIFFTERER's 'Commentary on the Rome Statute of the ICC' (1999; II edition under editorial review 2007) and the LATTANZI & SCHABAS' 'Collection of Essays on the Rome Statute of the ICC' (vol. I, 1999; vol. II, 2004).

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Human Rights Council
Peggy Hicks and Yvonne Terlingen

13 April 2010
Room 9207, CUNY Graduate Center

Peggy Hicks, Global Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch, coordinates HRW’s advocacy team and provides direction to its advocacy worldwide. Prior to joining HRW, Ms. Hicks directed the U.N. mission in Kosovo’s work on minority issues and returns and served as Deputy High Representative for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She worked previously as Director of Programs and General Counsel for Global Rights, and as clinical professor of human rights and refugee law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Ms. Hicks is a graduate of Columbia Law School and the University of Michigan, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Yvonne Terlingen heads Amnesty International’s United Nations Office in New York where she has represented the organization since 2001. She has worked for many years at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat, focusing on Asia and international organizations. Working for the United Nations, she served as Head of the Belgrade Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the former Yugoslavia and established the UN’s first Victims and Witnesses Unit, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. She studied law at the University of Amsterdam, and criminology, international human rights and United Nations law at the London School of Economics.

Recommended background reading for this session:

• http://www.un-ngls.org/article.php3?id_article=332&var_mode=calcul

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From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the UN
Adekeye Adebayo

27 April 2010
Room 9204-9205, CUNY Graduate Center

Dr. Adekeye Adebayo has been Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa since October 2003. He was Director of the Africa Programme at the International Peace Academy between 2000 and 2003, and was also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He served on United Nations missions in South Africa, Western Sahara and Iraq. Dr Adebajo is the author of Building Peace in West Africa (2002); Liberia’s Civil War (2002); and co-editor of Managing Armed Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century (2001); West Africa’s Security Challenges (2004); Essays on Africa and the United Nations (2006); South Africa in Africa (2007); Nigeria’s Foreign Policy After the Cold War (2008); and From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the United Nations (2009). He obtained his doctorate and masters degrees in International Relations from Oxford University in England, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and also has a masters from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts. He has held fellowships at the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., Stanford University, California; and Cambridge University, England. He obtained his bachelors degree from the University of Ibadan in his native Nigeria. From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the UN represents the first comprehensive attempt to examine the role of the United Nations (UN) in Africa over the last six decades. The contributions are from eminent pan-African scholars and policy intellectuals, most of whom have had practical first-hand experience with the world body. They examine ‘Global global apartheid’ – the inequitable power relations between rich North and poor South - here in three important areas: the politics within the UN’s principal organs; peacekeeping and human rightsUN ; and socio-economic development, centered on the efforts of sixteen UN specialised agencies, programmes, and funds. This is a is a unique volume on the role of the world’s most important multilateral body on its most impoverished continent that on the role of the most important multilateral body in the world in its poorest continent.

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The UN and Counter-Terrorism: Past, Present, and Future
Peter Romaniuk

11 May 2010
Room C201-C202, CUNY Graduate Center

Peter Romaniuk is Assistant Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York, where is also Research Fellow at the Center on Terrorism. He is the author of Mutlilateral Counter-terrorism: The Global Politics of Cooperation and Contestation, forthcoming in Routledge's Global Institutions Series. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles, chapters and policy reports on counter-terrorism cooperation, terrorist financing and UN sanctions. He also has articles and chapters forthcoming in the Review of International Studies, in Coping with Terrorism: Origins, Escalation, Counter Strategies and Responses (edited by William R. Thompson and Rafael Reuveny; State University of New York Press) and in the International Studies Compendium (edited by Robert A. Denemark; Wiley-Blackwell). He teaches courses on International Relations, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism, and Homeland Security.

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