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Presented by the Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Series at UCSB Saturday, April 13, 2002 / 3 P.M. / Tickets $5 Gym Pavilion, Recreation Center, UCSB Tickets may be purchased through the UCSB Arts & Lectures Box Office: 893-3535 Senator George J. Mitchell Chairman of the Peace Negotiations in Northern Ireland and Chairman of the Sharm El-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Professor Samuel P. Huntington Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University and author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Senator George J. Mitchell and Professor Samuel P. Huntington will discuss “The Conflict of Civilizations?” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 13 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The panelists will explore the question of whether conflicts between the world's major cultures in the post-Cold War era are inevitable, particularly in light of the terrorist attacks of September 11. Senator George J. Mitchell George Mitchell was appointed to the United States Senate in 1980 to complete the unexpired term of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who resigned to become Secretary of State. He was elected to a full term in the Senate in 1982 in a stunning come-from-behind victory. After trailing in public opinion polls by 36 points, Senator Mitchell rallied to win the election, receiving 61 percent of the votes cast. Senator Mitchell went on to an illustrious career in the Senate spanning 14 years. In 1988, he was reelected with 81 percent of the vote, the largest margin in Maine history. He left the Senate in 1995 as the Senate Majority Leader, a position he had held since January 1989. Senator Mitchell enjoyed bipartisan respect during his tenure. It has been said, "there is not a man, woman or child in the Capitol who does not trust George Mitchell." For six consecutive years he was voted "the most respected member" of the Senate by a bipartisan group of senior congressional aides. Recently, Senator Mitchell served as Chairman of the Peace Negotiations in Northern Ireland. Under his leadership an historic accord, ending decades of conflict, was agreed by the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom and the political parties of Northern Ireland. In May 1998, the agreement was overwhelmingly endorsed by the voters of Ireland, North and South, in a referendum. While in the Senate, Senator Mitchell served on the Finance, Veterans Affairs, and Environment and Public Works Committees. Senator Mitchell led the successful 1990 reauthorization of the Clean Air Act, including new controls on acid rain toxins. He was the author of the first national oil spill prevention and clean up law. Mitchell led the Senate to passage of the nation's first child care bill and was principal author of the low income housing tax credit program. He was instrumental in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, landmark legislation extending civil rights protections to the disabled. Mitchell's efforts led to the passage of a higher education bill that expanded opportunities for millions of Americans. Senator Mitchell was a leader in opening markets to trade and led the Senate to ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement and creation of the World Trade Organization. Senator Mitchell received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College in 1954, and then served in Berlin, Germany as an officer in the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corps until 1956. He received an LL.B. degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1960. From 1960 to 1962 he was a trial lawyer in the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. From 1962 to 1965 he served as Executive Assistant to Senator Muskie. In 1965 he returned to Maine where he engaged in the private practice of law in Portland until 1977. He was then appointed U.S. Attorney for Maine, a position he held until 1979, when he was appointed U.S. District Judge for Maine. He resigned that position in 1980 to accept appointment to the U.S. Senate. Senator Mitchell is the author of four books. With his colleague, Senator Bill Cohen of Maine he wrote Men of Zeal, describing the Iran-Contra investigation. In 1990, Senator Mitchell wrote, World on Fire, describing the threat of the greenhouse effect and recommending steps to curb it. His next book, published in 1997, was Not For America Alone: The Triumph of Democracy and The Fall of Communism. In 1999, Senator Mitchell wrote Making Peace, an account of his experience in Northern Ireland. Upon leaving the Senate, Senator Mitchell joined the Washington, D.C. law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand. He serves as a Director of the Walt Disney Company, Federal Express Corporation, Xerox Corporation, UNUM Provident Corporation, Casella Waste Systems, Inc., Unilever, Staples, Inc. and Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Senator Mitchell serves as the Chancellor of The Queen's University of Belfast and as President of The Economic Club of Washington. He served as Chairman of the International Crisis Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of crises in international affairs, as Chairman of the Special Commission investigating allegations of impropriety in the bidding process for the Olympic games, and as Chairman of the National Health Care Commission. At the request of the British and Irish Governments, Mr. Mitchell served as Chairman of the International Commission on Disarmament in Northern Ireland, and as Chairman of the Peace Negotiations in Northern Ireland. For his service in Northern Ireland Senator Mitchell has received numerous awards and honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor that the U.S. Government can give; the Philadelphia Liberty Medal; the Truman Institute Peace Prize; the German Peace Prize; and the United Nations (UNESCO) Peace Prize. At the request of President Clinton, Prime Minister Barak, and Chairman Arafat, Senator Mitchell served as Chairman of an International Fact Finding Committee that examined the current crisis between the Israelis and Palestinians. Professor Samuel P. Huntington Samuel P. Huntington is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he is also Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in the Center for International Affairs. His book, "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" was published in the fall of 1996 and has been translated into 22 other languages. Born on April 18, 1927, in New York City, he received his B.A. from Yale University in 1946, his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1948, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1951. He taught at Harvard from 1950 through 1958, and then was Associate Director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University from 1959 to 1962, when he returned to Harvard. He served as Chairman of the Harvard Department of Government from 1967 to 1969 and from 1970 to 1971. He became Associate Director of the Center for International Affairs in 1973 and was Director from 1978 to 1989. He became Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies in 1989, and Chairman of the Harvard Academy in 1996. During 1977 and 1978 he served at the White House as Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council. In 1970 he was founder of the quarterly journal, Foreign Policy, and its co-editor until 1977. He has been a Research Associate of the Brookings Institution, a Faculty Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and Senior Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. He was a member of the Council of the American Political Science Association (1969-1971), the Vice President (1984-1985), and the President (1986-1987) of the Association, a member of the Presidential Task Force on International Development (1969-1970), a member of the Commission on United States-Latin American Relations (1974-1976), chairman of the Defense and Arms Control Study Group of the Democratic Advisory Council (1974-1976), and a member of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy (1986-1988), and member of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (1995-1997). Dr. Huntington is the author or editor of over a dozen books and ninety scholarly articles. He has studied, taught, and written widely in three principal areas: Military politics, strategy, and civil-military relations, where his books include: The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relation, 1957; The Common Defense: Strategy Programs in National Politics, 1961; Changing Patterns of Military Politics (editor), 1962; The Strategic Imperative: New Policies for American Security (editor), 1982; Living with Nuclear Weapons (co-author), 1983; and Reorganizing America's Defense (co-editor), 1985. American and comparative politics, where his books include: Political Power: USA/USSR (co-author), 1964; The Crisis of Democracy (co-author), 1975; American Politics: The Power of Disharmony, 1981 (winner of the Association of American Publishers Social Science Award); and Global Dilemmas (co-editor), 1985. Political development and the politics of less developed countries, where his books include: Political Order in Changing Societies, 1968; Authoritarian Politics in Modern Society: The Dynamics of Established One-Party Systems (co-editor), 1970; No Easy Choice: Political Participation in Developing Countries (co-author), 1976; Understanding Political Development (co-editor), 1986; and The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, 1991 (winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order). The Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Series at UCSB is presented by the College of Letters and Science, UCSB Arts & Lectures, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. |