Preserving the Peace: Dilemmas of Nationbuilding

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Panelists:

Leila Abu-Gheida (Tufts'87, EPIIC)
Coordinator, Casamance Special Objective program, United States Agency for International Development, Senegal; former director, Rwandan refugee camp, Tanzania, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Samantha Klein (Tufts'95)
Former Education Officer, United Nations Mission in Kosovo; in her role there, she developed education policy for minorities and provides written analysis on minority and multi-ethnic education to Head of Department of Education and Science; she has worked with Children's Aid Direct, the International Rescue Committee, and the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, Burundi, Kosovo, Liberia, Mali, and New York

Maura Lynch (Fletcher'95, EPIIC)
Head of Office, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Tbilisi, Georgia; coordinator, Catholic Relief Services, in Eritrea, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Armenia, India, and Albania, strengthening emergency response programming and capacity, providing administrative and financial management, preparing policies on security and evacuation plans, and managing a variety of refugee programs

Jonathan Moore
Senior adviser to the Administrator, United Nations Development Program; former U.S. Coordinator for Refugees, Ambassador-at-Large, and director of the Refugee Programs Bureau, U.S. Department of State; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Representative to ECOSOC; former deputy assistant secretary of state, counselor to the Department of H.E.W., special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, and associate attorney general, U.S. Government; former member, Consultative Group of International Experts of the International Red Cross; associate, Joan Shorenstein Barone Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy, and former director, Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; editor, Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention; author, The U.N. and Complex Emergencies: Rehabilitation in Third World Transitions and Morality and Interdependence

Abiodun Williams (Fletcher'85)
Director, Strategic Planning, Office of the Secretary General, United Nations; former Director, International Fellowships Program (IFP), Institute for International Education; former Special Assistant, Offices of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Bosnia and Herzegovina; former Special Assistant to the Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Haiti; former Political and Humanitarian Affairs Officer, United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP), Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia

Moderators:
Robert Smullyan '04 and Jennifer Sokoler '06
EPIIC Colloquium Members