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Peter Singer at UCLA Critiques President Bush's Ethics
The well-known ethicist and author of the best-selling book "The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush" accuses the president of being more willing to kill Iraqi civilians than warehoused embryos.
Posted: 3/16/2004
John Kerry in UCLA Address Promises More Effective War on Terrorism
Massachusetts Senator at Burkle Forum calls for mending fences with allies to improve intelligence on terrorist groups, pledges additional aid for rebuilding Afghanistan to help stabilize region. The presidential hopeful says President Bush has done too little rather than too much in the world battle with terrorism.
Posted: 2/27/2004
February 12: Burkle Forum -- Can Israel Be A Jewish and Democratic State?
Ruth Gavison, Distinguished Professor of Law, Hebrew University, Leading Israeli Public Intellectual. 4:00 pm, UCLA Law School 1347.
Posted: 2/9/2004
A Democracy Strategy for the Middle East
Implications of the November 2003 Bush Doctrine on Middle East democracy.
Posted: 1/22/2004
Al Jazeera, Radio Sawa Founders Report on Media in the Middle East
Al Jazeera founder Omar Al-Issawi describes the Middle East's most dynamic television station, Norm Pattiz reports on America's new radio outpost in the Arab world.
Posted: 11/4/2003
Bruce Herschensohn, Mel Levine, Debate Effectiveness of Bush Policy in War on Terror, Role of UN
Conservative author, television commentator exchanges views with liberal attorney and former congressman.
Posted: 10/31/2003
Alan Dershowitz Speaks on His "The Case for Israel"
1,100 at Royce Hall hear call for supporters of Israel in America to speak up.
Posted: 10/29/2003
Nusseibeh-Ayalon Get 153,000 Signatures on Petition for Peace
Ami Ayalon, former head of Shin Bet, and Sari Nusseibeh, President of Al Quds University, tell UCLA audience about their campaign.
Posted: 10/24/2003
Shimon Peres at UCLA Meeting Calls for Negotiating with Existing Palestinian Leadership
Former Israeli prime minister calls for negotiating with the Palestinians "as they are."
Posted: 10/24/2003
Dalia Rabin-Pelossof Speaks on Oslo Ten Years Later
Yitzhak Rabin's daughter examines the Rabin legacy in today's Middle East.
Posted: 9/18/2003
General Assembly President Defends UN against Bush Administration Criticisms
UN General Assembly President Jan Kavan declares United Nations "not an instrument of U.S. foreign policy." Reminds audience of the world body's far flung operations in development, health, and peacekeeping.
Posted: 6/13/2003
Report from Sarajevo: Identifying the Missing
Two UCLA students in Bosnia-Herzegovina visit the morgue in Tuzla where missing person specialists seek to unravel the truth about the Serb massacres of Muslim Bosnians in Srebrenica in 1995.
Posted: 6/12/2003
UCLA Students Interview Bosnian Prime Minister on His Plans for Nation-Building
Two UCLA students in Sarajevo to explore similarities in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq discuss the country's future with Prime Minister Adnan Terzic.
Posted: 6/11/2003
LA Times Reports Seidler-Feller/Shawki El-Zatmah Class at UCLA
The June 4 "Los Angeles Times" carries a report on the UCLA class being co-taught by Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller and Palestinian graduate student Shawki El-Zatmah.
Posted: 6/6/2003
Rabbi, Palestinian Teach for Peace
UCLA Today features class co-taught by Palestinian doctoral candiate Shawki El-Zatmah, a Palestinian, and Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller. The class is sponsored by the Burkle Center for International Relations.
Posted: 5/29/2003
The United States Is Marginalizing Itself in Northeast Asia
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for China Susan Shirk warns that growing nationalism in South Korea and Japan will exacerbate the Bush administration's inept diplomacy in the North Korean nuclear crisis. She examines possible multilateral options for the region.
Posted: 5/16/2003
The Arab World after the Iraq War
Jerry Green, Middle East specialist for RAND, takes up weapons of mass destruction in Syria, Ahmad Chalabi, nation-building in Afghanistan, and the effects on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Posted: 4/17/2003
U.S. Victory in Iraq Opens Possibility of Palestinian-Israeli Settlement
Martin Indyk, leading Middle East specialist for the Clinton government, in UCLA address sees opportunity for George Bush following defeat of Saddam Hussein.
Posted: 4/10/2003
Two Talks Wednesday, April 9: Chancellor Carnesale on National Security, Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel on Middle East
UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale to speak on "National Security -- Evolution or Revolution? at noon in Dodd 147. Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk on "Making War and Peace in the Middle East" at 4:00 pm in Schoenberg Hall.
Posted: 4/4/2003
America and the World: What Has Changed Since 9/11?
Vice Provost Geoffrey Garrett explores the post-9/11 world in first of Burkle Center public class series.
Posted: 4/3/2003
