The Global Peace, Security and Human Rights Lecture Series

The Global Peace and Security Program, Global and International Studies Program, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and Arts & Lectures at University of California, Santa Barbara have established a highly successful public program devoted to "Global Peace, Security, and Human Rights" that began in 1996-1997. The purpose of this program is to broaden and intensify the international awareness of undergraduate students on the UCSB campus and of the citizens of the Santa Barbara community. Specifically, it examines the challenges that an increasingly interdependent world poses for peace, security, and human rights.

Global Peace, Security, and Human Rights was designed not only to keep global issues and concerns on the current agenda, but also to build their consideration into the curriculum. In that way future generations
of students as well as members of the community will continue to receive progress reports on the evolution of world problems into the 21st Century. Previous speakers in our series have included Richard Falk and David Adams (1996), Brian Urquhart and Robin Wright (1997), Leah Rabin and Warren Christopher (1998), Maurice Strong and Thomas Friedman (1999) Senator George Mitchell and Ehud Sprinzak (2000), Robert Reich and Frances Fitzgerald (2001), Michael Ignatieff, Siobhan Darrow, and Sandra Mackey (2002).

Global Peace, Security, and Human Rights is being funded by a Campus Program Activity Grant from the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California, a cost-sharing grant from
the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB, and support from private donors. In addition, it is being put on in partnership with non-governmental organizations such as the Physicians for Social Responsibility, Santa Barbara Committee on Foreign Relations, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and PAX 2100 as well as educational programs such as the International Studies Association at Santa Barbara City College and the International Studies Program at Ventura College.

Past Events

Sandra Mackey
"The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein"
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
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Ambassador Derek N. Shearer
"America's Role in the World Post 9/11: From Clinton's Globalism to Bush's Unilateralism"
Monday, April 18, 2002
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Tecla Wanjala
"Women as Peace Builders in Africa"
Monday, February 11, 2002
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Siobhan Darrow
"Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter"
Monday, January 28, 2002
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"Jung (War): In the Land of the Mujaheddin"
January 23, 2002
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Bradley Graham
"Hit to Kill: The New Battle over Shielding America from Missile Attack"
January 16, 2002
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Giandomenico Picco
"The New Middle East:
From Lebanon to Iran"
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
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Randall Forsberg
"The New US Missile Defense Program and
Arms Control in the Post-Cold War Era"
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
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Frances FitzGerald
"National Missile Defenses and the Politics of Nostalgia"
Wednesday, October 10 , 2001
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Robert Reich
"Globalization and Its Discontents"
Tuesday, May 29, 2001
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Daniel Philpott
"Revolutions in Sovereignty:
How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations"
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
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Marc Kielburger
"The Power of One:
How One Person Can Work for Human Rights and Change the World"
Wednesday, April 4, 2001
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Johan Galtung
"A New Vision of Global Citizenship”
Tuesday, March 6, 2001
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Peter H. Merkl
“A Coup Attempt In Washington?
A European Mirror on the 1998-1999 Constitutional Crisis”
Wednesday, February 14, 2001
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Thomas Lippman
"Madeleine Albright and the New American Diplomacy"
Monday, February 12, 2001
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Anthony Shadid
“Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam"
Thursday, February 8, 2001
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Richard Appelbaum
"Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry"
Thursday, January 18, 2001
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Michael Ignatieff
“Virtual War and the Future of Intervention”
Thursday, January 11, 2001
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Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini
"Women Building Peace:
From the Village Council to the Negotiating Table"
Wednesday, November 28, 2000
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Elaine Sciolino
"Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran"
Wednesday, October 18, 2000
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Ann Louise Bardach
"The Cuban-American Tango: What's Next?"
Tuesday, October 17, 2000
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