Featuring:

Miguel Chitic
A prominent Guatemalan leader of CONIC (the National Coordination of Indigenous and Campesino People), he has been working with the challenge of putting into practice the words of the Peace Accords signed in December.

Mr. Chitic's trip to the United States was sponsored by Witness for Peace.

Cosponsored by Latin American Studies with American Studies, Hispanic American Center, Department of Political Science, Iberamerican Student Group at Fletcher, Department of Romance Languages, Department of History, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Peace and Justice Studies, and World Civilizations

A Discussion with:

Philip C. Winslow
Foreign Correspondent; Author, Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Land Mines and the Global Legacy of War

John Stuart Kauer
Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Professor and Director, Kauer Laboratory Program in Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine; Co-Developer of a patent for an artificial olfactory system with practical utility in detecting land mines

Michael Croll
Field Director of Mine Clearance Programs, United Nations and Non-Governmental Organizations; Former Officer, Royal Engineers, British Army

Cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Boston. In cooperation with Physicians for Human Rights.

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Panelists:

Gen. William Nash
Former Military Commander of the American Sector in Bosnia

Roy Williams
Vice President of the International Rescue Committee

Tim Knight
Former Head of the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance in Bosnia

Cosponsored by the Fletcher School's International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program and the International Security Studies Program, and the Feinstein International Famine Center.

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Featuring:

Joan Timoney
Director, Crisis Corps of the Peace Corp

Prior to becoming Director of Congressional Relations for the Peace Corps from 1993-97, Ms. Timoney spent 14 years working on Capitol Hill. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal from 1978-80. Ms. Timoney recently returned from a visit to Africa where she met with Crisis Corps Volunteers.

Cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of Boston.

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