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Sovereignty and Intervention
2002 - 2003
Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
February 28, 2:30pm
Remis Sculpture Gallery


John Shattuck

Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation in 2001. Mr. Shattuck's career spans nearly three decades in government service and the nonprofit sector. In 1993, he was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. While serving in this position, Mr. Shattuck worked to end the war in Bosnia and negotiate the Dayton Peace Agreement; establish the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; restore a democratically-elected government to Haiti; administer U. S. assistance to new and emerging democracies; and raise the profile of human rights in U.S. foreign policy after the end of the Cold War. For this work, he received an International Human Rights Award from the United Nations Association of Boston in 1998. Mr. Shattuck is also the author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and the Roots of Terrorism, to be published by Harvard University Press in 2003. In 1998, Mr. Shattuck was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic. Before entering government service, Mr. Shattuck was at Harvard University, where he held the position of vice president for government, community and public affairs from 1984 to 1993. He also lectured on civil liberties at the Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Shattuck's public service career began at the American Civil Liberties Union, where he was Executive Director of the ACLU Washington office and national staff counsel from 1971 to 1984. He was involved in all major civil-rights and civil-liberties issues during the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations, including the defense of federal civil-rights legislation, protection of the federal courts against congressional efforts to limit their jurisdiction, and legislative expansion of the rights of women.
Ambassador Shattuck accepts his Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award from EPIIC colloquium member Daniel Stuckey.
Ambassador Shattuck addresses the audience after receiving his award.

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