"Dilemmas of Peacekeeping and Intervention: A Conversation with General Wesley Clark and Professor Ian Johnstone"

Speakers:

General Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army (Retired)
- Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), 1997-2000.
- Commander in Chief of the United States European Command, 1997-2000
- Commander, Operation Allied Force, 1999 (successful military action in response to the Kosovo crisis -NATO's first major combat action and largest air operation in Europe since the Second World War)
- Currently Managing Director of the Stephens Group, Inc., high-tech venture capital area
- Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the State Department's Distinguished Service Award, five Defense Distinguished Service Medals, the Silver Star and the Purple Heart
- Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University, 1966-1968. Master's degree in philosophy, politics and economics.
- Author of the recently published best seller Waging Modern War
- Senior military advisor to the Cable News Network (CNN)

Professor Ian Johnstone
- Assistant Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School
- Former Aide, United Nations Office of the Secretary-General, Department of Peace-keeping Operations, and Office of Legal Affairs;
- Former Senior Research Associate, International Peace Academy and Warren Weaver Fellow in International Security, Rockefeller Foundation
- Recent Publications: Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional UN Operations in Cambodia and El Salvador (co-editor)(1997); Rights and Reconciliation: UN Strategies in El Salvador (1995); Aftermath of the Gulf War: An Assessment of UN Action (1994).
- Articles include: "UN peacebuilding: consent, coercion and the crisis of state failure," Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Council of International Law, 1999 (forthcoming); "The UN's Role in Transitions from War to Peace: Sovereignty, Consent and the Evolving Normative Climate," Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies Info Paper