Videos
Kantathi video
Burkle Center Senior Fellow Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon expresses his views about Thailand's relationship with North Korea.
Posted: 10/8/2009
Alan Kuperman: Protecting Rebels Makes for More and Worse Conflicts
In this video, University of Texas Professor and Strauss Center Senior Fellow Alan J. Kuperman argues for modifying the doctrine that the international community has a "responsibility to protect" people from mass atrocities. Intervene, he says, only on behalf of nonviolent groups.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Anna Spain: Preventing Atrocities Is the Challenge for R2P
In this video, University of Colorado-Boulder law professor and mediator Anna Spain proposes a new focus on conflict prevention within the framework of a "responsibility to protect" populations in danger. According to Spain, we can begin by learning lessons from past mass atrocities.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Balakrishnan Rajagopal on R2P
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Ford International Associate Professor of Law and Development at MIT and Director of the MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice, offers his reflections and experience with R2P at the Burkle Center's 2009 Annual Conference.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Ed Luck on R2P
Edward Luck is the Senior Vice President and Director of Studies at the International Peace Institute and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General. Luck made his remarks on his experiences with R2P as part of the UCLA Burkle Center's 2009 Annual Conference
Posted: 7/27/2009
Gareth Evans: We Must Never Stand By, Allow Genocide
In this video, former Australian Foreign Minister and International Crisis Group President and CEO Gareth Evans explains why the notion of a "responsibility to protect" populations in peril, or R2P, is taking hold internationally. Evans is the author of a landmark report about R2P as a mechanism for stopping genocide and mass atrocities.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Georgette Gagnon: Let's Take Practical Steps Against Genocide
In this video, the Africa Director of Human Rights Watch, Georgette Gagnon, tells why her organization pushed for the principle of a "responsibility to protect" to guard people from atrocities committed by their governments. The next step, Gagnon says, is to "operationalize" R2P.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Roberta Cohen on R2P
Roberta Cohen, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Senior Advisor to the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, discusses the role of R2P in her work. Cohen made her remarks as part of the UCLA Burkle Center's 2009 Annual Conference.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Kal Raustiala: Does the Constitution Follow the Flag?
In this video, Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala discusses territorial legal limits and why foreigners can be detained by the U.S. without due process in non-U.S. territory.
Posted: 5/11/2009
Kal Raustiala: Will Bagram be Different than Guantanamo?
In this video, Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala discusses questions related to the release or transfer of Quantanamo Bay detainees as well as the territorial legal limits of the War on Terror.
Posted: 5/11/2009
Burkle Fellow Amy Zegart on Concerns of Instability in Pakistan
Amy Zegart, associate professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, discusses concerns of instability in Pakistan.
Zegart spoke as part of a foreign affairs panel at UCLA Day on May 9, 2009.
Posted: 5/9/2009
UCLA Foreign Policy Panel on US-China Relations
Burkle Center affiliates discuss U.S. relations with China as part of a foreign affairs panel at UCLA Day on May 9, 2009.
Posted: 5/9/2009
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai
In this video segment, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan founder of the global Green Belt Movement, responds to audience Q&A.
Posted: 4/20/2009
General Wes Clark on Obama's Foreign Policy Team
General Wesley Clark, senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, shares his thoughts on President Obama's foreign policy team and their approach to handling international affairs. Clark's remarks were part of the UCLA Burkle Center's 2009 annual conference.
Posted: 4/15/2009
Kantathi Suphamongkhon on 'R2P' and the 2008 Myanmar Cyclone
Kantathi Suphamongkhon, former foreign minister of Thailand and senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations discusses the international communitys response to the 2008 Myanmar cyclone. Suphamongkhon made his remarks as part of the UCLA Burkle Center's 2009 Annual Conference.
Posted: 4/15/2009
General Wes Clark on 'The Responsibility to Protect'
General Wesley Clark, senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, discusses the responsibility of the international community to intervene, even militarily, when a state neglects its duty to protect its population from genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Posted: 4/14/2009
Conference Video -- Preview
This video will be shown at The Future of the Responsibility to Protect
Posted: 4/2/2009
The Honorable Louise Arbour on "The Responsibility to Protect"
In this video op-ed, the Honorable Louise Arbour, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, shares her thoughts on the 2001 landmark report "The Responsibility to Protect", published by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, led by Gareth Evans and Mohamed Sahnoun.
Posted: 4/2/2009
Gov. Bill Richardson weighs Clinton, Obama endorsement
In an interview with Los Angeles Times journalist Maggie Farley at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations' 2008 Annual Conference, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson discusses his personal experiences in the Democratic presidential primary race, the role of superdelegates and whether he will endorse Sen. Hillary Clinton or Sen. Barack Obama.
Posted: 3/12/2009
Gov. Richardson Recounts his Deals with Hussein, Castro
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former U.S. congressman and ambassador to the UN, discusses his experiences negotiating prisoner releases with "rogue leaders" like Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro and his diplomatic missions to North Korea, Sudan and other countries.
Posted: 3/11/2009
Vice President Francisco Santos Calderon of Colombia: The Environmental Impact of Cocaine
Vice President Calderon speaks about "The Shared Responsibility Initiative: Cocaine's Ecocide in Colombia," his international campaign to create awareness of the major environmental and social damages resulting from coca cultivation, cocaine production and the intl. drug trade.
Posted: 2/26/2009
Matthew Yglesias: Democrats' Foreign Policy Disadvantage Not Going Away
In this video op-ed, Matthew Yglesias, author and senior editor for the Center for American Progress, identifies a paradox between Republican foreign policy and Democratic politics.
Posted: 11/14/2008
David Kaye: Karadzic, Bashir and Challenges for Intl. Justice
David Kaye, Exec. Dir. of UCLA School of Law's International Human Rights Program, identifies risks and opportunities in the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic at the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He also discusses the arrest warrant on genocide charges sought by the chief prosecutor of the ICC against President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan.
Posted: 9/17/2008
Lecture by US Ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad
Zalmay Khalilzad is the US Ambassador to the UN and delivered the Annual Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Condition of Peace on May 6, 2008.
Posted: 5/30/2008
Lecture by Dr. Suphamongkhon - Globalization: A Blessing or A Curse?
Dr. Suphamongkhon is the 39th Foreign Minister of Thailand, UC Regents Professor, Burkle Center Senior Fellow and this year's presenter of the Annual Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development. Drawing from his experiences in Thailand and abroad, Dr. Suphamongkhon speaks to the pros and cons of globalization today.
Posted: 5/22/2008
Ambassador Khalilzad Addresses Role of Students in Middle East Peace
Following the Annual 2008 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace speech at UCLA, Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, addressed the assembled students and discussed their role in the struggle for peace in the Middle East.
Posted: 5/6/2008
Bill Richardson: Personal Relationships at Heart of Diplomacy
Listen to the New Mexico governor's March 11 keynote address at UCLA on "U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Rogue States," a conference organized by the Burkle Center. Richardson says the "bad guys" of international relations often crave recognition from the United States and respond to personal connections.
Posted: 3/4/2008
Gen. Clark: U.S. Response to "Rogue" States
At the Burkle Center's 2008 Annual Conference, "Rogue States: Engage, Isolate or Strike?", Burkle Senior Fellow Wesley K. Clark, other prominent leaders, analysts, diplomats, and academics explored the way the United States responds to countries that constitute a threat to the security of their neighbors and the world. This video features Gen. Clarks response.
Posted: 2/21/2008
Michael L. Ross: Rein in 'Oil Bully' Burma
In this video op-ed, Michael L. Ross, a UCLA political scientist and acting director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, explains the dynamics that allow oil-exporting nations, particularly Myanmar (Burma), to win influence and political cover for human rights abuses.
Posted: 12/11/2007
Phillip Carter: Refocus on Political Solution for Iraq
In this video op-ed, UCLA law graduate and Iraq war veteran Phillip Carter says that tactical victories for the U.S. military in Baghdad will be of little consolation when troop levels fall again in April 2008. He discusses the corruption and sectarianism that plagued Iraqi security forces during his time in Diyala Province.
Posted: 9/27/2007
Amy Zegart: US Spy Agencies Have Long Way to Go
In this video op-ed, Amy Zegart of the UCLA School of Public Affairs calls for "top-down policy changes" and "bottom-up cultural transformation" in U.S. intelligence gathering and analysis. Zegart is the author of "Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11" (2007).
Posted: 8/16/2007
Wesley K. Clark: Abandoning Values Only Brings Defeat
Renewal of respect for international law, open justice, human dignity, and the Bill of Rights is the key to victory in the struggle against terrorists, explains former NATO commander and UCLA Burkle Center Senior Fellow Wesley K. Clark in this video op-ed. Torturing enemies is not merely wrong, he says, but "represents a path for defeat for the United States."
Posted: 5/21/2007
Ann Carlson: US Ruling May Let States Fight Global Warming
In this video op-ed, UCLA Professor of Law Ann Carlson, director of UCLA's Environmental Law Center, explains how the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA is likely to affect California's efforts to regulate some important causes of global climate change.
Posted: 5/7/2007
Challenges for the Next Administration
Streaming video and audio podcast from the closing plenary panel of the conference, Nuclear Weapons in a New Century: Facing the Emerging Challenges.
Posted: 3/14/2007
Is Proliferation Inevitable? And Do We Need a New Regime to Manage it?
Streaming video and audio podcast from the opening plenary panel of the conference, Nuclear Weapons in a New Century: Facing the Emerging Challenges.
Posted: 3/14/2007
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