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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
US Assistant Secretary of State to Speak on Diplomacy
Today, January 05, 2009, at 12:00 PM in the UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon, Assistant Secretary of State Goli Ameri will give a lecture titled "The Challenges of U.S. Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century, And New Opportunities in the Digital Age."
Posted: 1/5/2009
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
Textbook Drive for Iraqi Doctors Becomes International Movement of Giving
Operation Medical Libraries, which began with an e-mail request for donated textbooks from a UCLA alumnus in Iraq, has blossomed into an international movement in just 18 months.
Posted: 12/15/2008
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
Serbian War Crimes Officials Visit Law Class
Top officials in the Serbian Interior Ministry's War Crimes Investigating Service take questions from law students in a clinic on international justice in the Balkans.
Posted: 12/9/2008
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
The European Union Today: Internal and External Challenges
A panel discussion with the British, Czech, French, German, and EU Ambassadors to the US
Posted: 12/5/2008
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
The Development of Inner-Party Democracy in Taiwan: Consequences for Taiwan's Party Politics
A talk by Dafydd Fell (SOAS)
Posted: 11/18/2008
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
Burkle Center Fellow Amy Zegart Blogs the Final Leg of the 2008 Race for President
UCLA Newsroom, November 2008
Posted: 11/3/2008
'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
One More Reason Not to Like This Economy
Matthew Yglesias, Senior Editor at the Center for American Progress
Posted: 10/30/2008
South Kazakhstan Outbreak Led to Anti-HIV Programs
The Shymkent outbreak of 2006 affected more than 130 children but also energized Kazakh officials to implement programs for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
Posted: 10/28/2008
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
Challenges for the Next President: Is the Middle East Still Important?
A public lecture by Dr. Shibley Telhami
Posted: 10/17/2008
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
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
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