2005 Fall Global Issues Lectures

The Global Issues Lecture Series is an informal lecture series held once a month, during the academic year, on the University campus with each lecture topic focusing on a different area of global concern. This fall's lecture will address UN Reform, the Millennium Development Goals and UN Peacekeeping and are free and open to the public.


Empowering Larger Freedom: UN Reform and US Interests
Tuesday, September 20, 3:00 pm
2500 Posvar Hall

A panel discussion on UN Reform featuring Jeffrey Laurenti, Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation, Sky Foerster, President of the World Affairs Council, Charli Carpenter, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs; and Ambassador Dan Simpson, Associate Editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Americans and the Millennium Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities
By Carol Welch, US Coordinator, Millennium Campaign
Friday, October 28, 1:00 pm
4130 Posvar Hall

The Millennium Development Goals represent an opportunity to eliminate the most extreme forms of poverty across the globe. Carol Welch will discuss the importance of the MDGs, organizing methods used to raise awareness about them and the political challenges of garnering support for the goals.
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A special showing of the film The Peacekeepers
Wednesday, November 16, 5:00 pm
4130 Posvar Hall

This newly release film, gives an unprecedented look into the build up of a conflict, as it follows the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and details the politics of putting peacekeeping troops on the ground in New York.
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