Notre Dame Alumni Association of Pittsburgh, Consortium for Christian–Muslim Dialogue
The Rev. Robert Dowd (Notre Dame) and Elaine Linn (Pitt) will discuss Christian–Muslim Relations Here and Abroad: How People’s Faith Guides Their Lives, in 719 Fisher Hall on the campus of Duquesne University. Organized by the Notre Dame Alumni Association of Pittsburgh in collaboration with the Consortium for Christian–Muslim Dialogue, and hosted by Duquesne’s Theology Department.
Penn State University School of International Affairs
Come join Ambassador Dennis Jett (Ret.), Ph.D., Professor of International Affairs, for a discussion on the efficacy of peacekeeping in the Middle East.
The Palestine Center, 2425 Virginia Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20037, United States (also available via video conference at http://www.thejerusalemfund.org)
The Jerusalem Fund is pleased to present Professor Wadie Said who will deliver the 2016 Edward Said Memorial Lecture. Just as the late Dr. Edward Said struggled tirelessly in his scholarship and humanities projects to challenge and dispel dominant misperceptions of the East, Arab society, and the modern Palestinian predicament, his son Wadie Said engages a similarly noble pursuit: confronting the issue of terrorism and the ways in which it is produced and dealt with in the American legal system.
Come join Melissa Finn for her talk that explores how minority activists mobilize citizenship despite of or due to their marginalization, and how their work is critical for the mitigation of youth radicalization into violent extremism. Her empirical focus includes Arab activism in the west and MENA region, as well as current work on ethnic Somali activism in Kenya.
Join us for a talk by Dr. Clive Lipchin, the Director of the Center for Transboundary Water Management (Israel/Jordan/Palestine), and learn how Israel's Arava Institute's head of transboundary water management deals with 3 warring nations unified in their care for their water resources. Understand the unique collaboration and diplomacy that has garnered The Arava Institute seven nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. Review Arava team techniques and approaches they've leveraged to maintain a steady supply of nourishing water across boundary lines to the people in need.
Join us for a talk by Dr. Clive Lipchin, the Director of the Center for Transboundary Water Management (Israel/Jordan/Palestine), and learn how Israel's Arava Institute's head of transboundary water management deals with 3 warring nations unified in their care for their water resources. Understand the unique collaboration and diplomacy that has garnered The Arava Institute seven nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. Review Arava team techniques and approaches they've leveraged to maintain a steady supply of nourishing water across boundary lines to the people in need.
University of Pittsburgh Department of Religious Studies
This roundtable will be a thoughtful discussion with scholars in religious studies on how religious diversity relates to politics in general, and this year’s presidential election in particular. Panelists will respond to questions from the moderator on how and why different Jews, Christians, and Muslims are engaging in the political process in particular ways. It will allow plenty of time for questions and comments from the audience.
Department of Asian Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Weiss Chair of the Humanities, the Department of History, and the School of International Affairs
After the fiasco of the Iraq War of 2003, the West pushed for a new mandate through the UN called the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. This new mandate revived ideas of humanitarian intervention that had been called into question from the detritus of Iraq. No lessons were learned. After R2P came Libya, a society now in ruins, and then came Syria, a country whose civil war had been fanned along even as no good outcome seemed on the horizon. Presented by Dr. Vijay Prashad from Trinity College, this talk will explore the landscape of intervention and its perils.
University of Pittsburgh School of Law Center for International Legal Education
The University of Pittsburgh School of Law's Center for International Legal Education will be holding a roundtable discussion featuring Dr. Salah Hadi Saleh, the Director General of the Scholarship Department of the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education, who will be the principal speaker for the roundtable discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing legal education in Iraq, and lessons that can be drawn from the development and export of legal education elsewhere in the world. Commentators on Dr. Saleh’s presentation will be:
