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UCLA Peacemaker to Speak on Global Conflicts, Everyday Choices

At a free public lecture on Saturday in Santa Monica, Burkle Center Deputy Director Anna Spain, a lawyer and mediator specializing in cross-cultural conflict resolution, will discuss how citizens can contribute to the spread of peace around the world.
Posted: 1/27/2009

Human Rights Film Series Starts Wednesday

The UCLA International Institute Human Rights Film Series begins on Wednesday, Jan. 28, with a public screening of "Killer's Paradise" and discussion with director Giselle Portenier. The documentary film shines a light on the murders of more than 2,000 Guatemalan women in recent years and on responses by police and officials that often only compound the crimes.
Posted: 1/23/2009

No One China in Africa

Miners' success in improving working conditions at a Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia tells one story about Chinese economic influence on the continent. But it's too early to say what the country's investments in Africa add up to, says UCLA sociologist Ching Kwan Lee.
Posted: 1/23/2009

Scholars Say Attack on Gaza an Abuse of Human Rights

Israel's recent assault on Gaza by land, sea and air against the backdrop of its control over the territory was a disturbing violation of Palestinians' human rights, speakers at the symposium said.
Posted: 1/23/2009

10 Questions for Vinay Lal

Going by the title of a witty and insightful book by Vinay Lal, associate professor of history, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and U.S. Surgeon General-designate Sanjay Gupta are among "The Other Indians," distinct in many ways not just from native Americans but also from India's 1 billion people. Lal's book was recently published by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press and HarperCollins (India). Here, he discusses the Indian community in the U.S. and geopolitical events in South Asia.
Posted: 1/22/2009

New Services Offer More Protection to UCLA Travelers

As long as their travel plans are registered online, UCLA faculty, staff, and students can receive instant email warnings through a vendor working for UC.
Posted: 1/9/2009

Outgoing US Cultural Affairs Official Touts Social Networking Website

At a lecture cosponsored by the Burkle Center and student groups, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Goli Ameri introduces ExchangesConnect, a social networking website intended to bring a "new generation of digital natives" into conversation around the globe. Her bureau will also fund Indonesian dance performances on campus in spring.
Posted: 1/7/2009

LA Times Op-Ed by Kal Raustiala: Iraq Withdrawal -- Not So Fast

Part of the new Status of Forces accord could put a crimp in U.S. plans for a pullout of troops.
Posted: 1/3/2009

European Ambassadors Urge Greater US Cooperation to Tackle Global Challenges

The incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama promises to pave the way for transatlantic collaboration to address global challenges, European ambassadors say.
Posted: 12/10/2008

Talk With the Taliban?

Two European-based anthropologists say that Afghans may be more inclined than some others to speak with enemies and to entertain views opposed to their own.
Posted: 12/10/2008

European Ambassadors Discuss Global Challenges, Transatlantic Cooperation

Representing France, Britain, Germany, the Czech Republic and the European Union, the ambassadors highlighted a broad range of political, economic, environmental and security issues confronting their respective governments as well as the European Union and the transition of President-elect Barack Obama.
Posted: 12/8/2008

Peruvian Leader on the Costs of Global Poverty

A son of poverty, former Peruvian president, and founder of the Global Center for Development and Democracy, Alejandro Toledo on Dec. 2 spoke of poverty, inequality, and social exclusion as evils in themselves, and warned of the consequences of failing to reduce all three.
Posted: 12/3/2008

Israelis and Palestinians Put Humanity Above Politics to Save Lives

The duo, Noam Yifrach and Younis Al-Khatib, are the heads, respectively, of the Maghen David Adom (MDA) and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), the Israeli and Palestinian equivalents of the Red Cross.
Posted: 11/26/2008

UN Officials Discuss Justice in Sudan, Rwanda

A spokesperson for the UN Mission in the Sudan and an appeals prosecutor who works to bring justice after the Rwandan genocide explain some of the impacts of international legal proceedings.
Posted: 11/20/2008

Israel's New Ambassador Embodies Change at UN

In a talk cosponsored by the UCLA Israel Studies Program, Shalev said she hopes her ambassadorship will alter both the role of Israel in the U.N. as well as the way the U.N. is perceived within Israel.
Posted: 11/18/2008

'Iraqi Marshlands Then and Now'

Opening Dec. 14, the exhibit at the Fowler Museum will recall the land and culture decimated by Saddam Hussein after the 1991 Gulf War.
Posted: 11/3/2008

Wanted: Active UN to Lead on Iraq

Veteran journalist Helena Cobban says that only the United Nations is in a position to convene nations interested in stability in Iraq, citing evidence of a shift of global power and influence away from the United States.
Posted: 10/22/2008

Rwanda as an African Model

Veteran journalist Stephen Kinzer talks about his latest book, on President Paul Kagame's role in the amazing rise of Rwanda.
Posted: 10/14/2008

U.S. a 'Speed Bump' to International Justice?

UCLA Today Online, October 7, 2008
Posted: 10/7/2008

Law School Receives $4 Million for Clinic on International Justice

The School of Law has received a $4 million endowment to establish a program on international justice and human rights, the first such program at any law school on the West Coast. The donation was made by Sanela Diana Jenkins, a survivor of the war in Bosnia who now lives and works in California and London.
Posted: 9/22/2008

UCLA Study of Satellite Imagery Casts Doubt on Surge's Success in Baghdad

Night light in neighborhoods populated primarily by embattled Sunni residents declined dramatically just before the February 2007 surge and never returned, suggesting that ethnic cleansing by rival Shiites may have been largely responsible for the decrease in violence for which the U.S. military has claimed credit.
Posted: 9/19/2008

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