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2004 EPIIC Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Awards
Antonia Handler Chayes
Professor
Chayes is a visiting professor of international politics
and law at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She
is senior advisor and vice chair of Conflict Management Group; a founding
member of ENDISPUTE; and chair of the Project on Compliance
and International Conflict Management at the Program on Negotiation.
She is also an adjunct lecturer at The J.F. Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard University. Professor Chayes is a former
member of the Board of Directors of United Technologies
Corporation (1981-2002). She was Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Installations and Under Secretary
of the U.S. Air Force from 1977 to 1981, and she has
served on several federal commissions, including the Vice President's
White House Aviation Safety and Security Commission and
the Commission on Roles and Missions of the United States Armed Forces.
She is the coauthor of Planning for Intervention: International
Cooperation in Conflict Management and The New Sovereignty: Compliance
with International Regulating Agreements and the coeditor of Imagine
Coexistence: Restoring Humanity After Violent Ethnic
Conflict and Preventing Conflict in the Post-Communist World: Mobilizing
International and Regional Organizations.
Amb. Tony
P. Hall
Three
times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Ambassador Tony P. Hall is
one of the leading advocates for hunger relief programs and improving
international human rights conditions in the world. As the chief of the
U.S. Mission to the U.N. Agencies in Rome, the World Food Program (WFP),
the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund
for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Ambassador Hall is responsible for
putting into action Americas commitment to alleviate hunger and build
hope in the world. Prior to entering the diplomatic corps, Mr. Hall of
Dayton, Ohio, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented
the people of the Third District of Ohio for almost twenty-four years.
In Congress, he was the chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger
and the Democratic Caucus Task Force on Hunger. He is also the founder
and was chairman of the Congressional Hunger Center, a non-governmental
organization dedicated to fighting hunger by developing leaders. Ambassador
Hall has spent time in more than 110 countries ranging from Afghanistan
to Zimbabwe. He was the first Member of Congress to visit Ethiopia during
the great famine of 1984-5. He has visited North Korea six times since
1995 and was one of the first Western officials to see the famine outside
of the capital, Pyongyang. In 2000, he became the first Member of Congress
to visit Iraq in order to investigate the humanitarian situation.
Amb. Kishore Mahbubani
A
student of philosophy and history, Kishore Mahbubani has published extensively
in leading journals and newspapers overseas (including Foreign Affairs,
the National Interest, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal).
He has also addressed many major international conferences, including
Davos, Williamsburg, Ditchley and the IISS meeting. By profession, Mr.
Mahbubani is a civil servant and career diplomat who has been with the
Singapore Foreign Service since 1971. His overseas postings have included
Cambodia (where he served during the war, in 1973-74), Malaysia, the
United States and the United Nations. He is now serving his second stint
as Singapore's Ambassador to the United Nations, where he was President
of the Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002 when Singapore was
serving on the UN Security Council. He was previously Permanent Secretary
(Policy) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was the first dean of
the Civil Service College in Singapore. He has served on the boards of
several leading institutes and think tanks in Singapore, including the
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, the Institute of Policy Studies,
the Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellowship and the Institute of Defence and
Strategic Studies. Amb. Mahbubani is the author of Can Asians Think?,
and he has been described by The Economist as an Asian Toynbee, preoccupied
with the rise and fall of civilizations and by The Washington Post as
a Max Weber of the new Confucian ethic.
Gen.
Nash is the John W. Vessey Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for
Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Major General
William L. Nash, USA (Ret.) has extensive experience in peacekeeping
operations, both as a military commander in Bosnia and as a civilian
administrator for the United Nations in Kosovo. He served in the Army
for 34 years, and is a veteran of Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm
in Iraq. Since his retirement in 1998, Nash has been a Fellow and Visiting
Lecturer at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Director
of Civil-Military Programs at the National Democratic Institute for International
Affairs, and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. Nash has
been the Director of the Council's Center for Preventive Action since
April 2001. In April 2002, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appointed
Nash to the UN fact-finding team to develop accurate information regarding
events in the Jenin refugee camp. Nash is a Military Consultant for ABC
News. Gen. Nash was the project director for Balkans 2010, and he is
the author of The Laws of War: A Military View and Can Soldiers be Peacekeepers
and Warriors?
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Dr.
Nye is the Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University. Previously, he was the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, winning two
Distinguished Service medals, and the chair of the National Intelligence
Council. Dr. Nye joined the Harvard faculty in 1964, serving as director
of the Center for International Affairs and associate dean of Arts and
Sciences. From 1977-1979, Dr. Nye was Deputy to the Undersecretary of
State for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology and chaired the
National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
His publications include Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
(forthcoming); The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower
Can't Go It Alone; Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction
to Theory and History; and Power in the Global Information Age: From
Realism to Globalization. He is the coauthor of Power and Interdependence
and Democracy.Com: Governance in a Networked World; the editor of For
the People: Can We Fix Public Service?; and the coeditor of Governance
in a Globalizing World.
Since
1998, Jonathan Schell has been the Harold Willens Peace Fellow
at the Nation Institute, where he is now based, and the Peace and Disarmament
Correspondent for The Nation magazine. He is also currently a visiting
lecturer at the Yale Law School and a Fellow at Yale's Center for
the Study of Globalization. Mr. Schell was a staff writer at The New
Yorker magazine from 1967 until 1987. He was the principle writer of
the magazine's Notes and Comments. His reflective work on the nuclear
question, The Fate of the Earth, became a best-seller and was hailed
by The New York Times as "an event of profound historical moment." It
received the Los Angeles Times book prize, among other awards, and was
nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National
Critics Award. Mr. Schell's other books are The Village of Ben Suc, The
Military Half, The Time of Illusion, The Abolition, History in the Sherman
Park, The Real War, Observing the Nixon Years, The Gift of Time, The
Unfinished Twentieth Century, and The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence,
and the Will of the People. He received the Lannan Award for Literary
Non-fiction in 2000. From 1990 until 1996, Schell was a columnist at
Newsday and New York Newsday. He has taught at Emory University, New
York University, Princeton University, and Wesleyan University, where
he was a Distinguished Visiting Writer from 1997 to 2002. In 1987, he
was a fellow at the Institute of Politics and in 2002 a fellow at the
Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the John
F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
Amb. Pierre Olov Schori
Amb.
Schori is the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sweden to the
United Nations and the chair of the United Nations Committee for Parliamentarians
for Global Action. He is also chair of the Olof Palme Memorial Fund.
Amb. Schori has served as the chair of the Swedish Institute in Alexandria,
Egypt; as a member of the International Commission for Central American
Recovery and Development (The Sanford Commission); and as head of the
European Union Election Observation Mission in Zimbabwe in 2000 and 2002.
Within the Swedish Government, he has been a foreign policy adviser in
the Cabinet of Prime Minister Olof Palme, Permanent Under-Secretary of
State in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Minister for International
Development Cooperation, Deputy Foreign Minister for Cooperation with
Central and Eastern Europe, and Minister for International Development
Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy. Amb. Schori has also served
as a member of European Parliament. He is the author of The Impossible
Neutrality; Olof Palme: Reformer without Borders; and Can the United
Nations Manage the New Era?
Sir Brian Urquhart
Sir
Brian Urquhart has led an extraordinary life, much of which has
been spent in and around the United Nations system. After serving in
the British army and military intelligence during World War II in North
Africa and Europe, he became Personal Assistant to Gladwyn Jebb and
Executive Secretary to the Preparatory Commission, which established
the United Nations in London from 1945 to 1946. Since 1946, Sir Brian
Urquhart's professional life has been, in many respects, a history
of the UN itself. He was personal assistant to the first Secretary-General
(Trygve Lie) and subsequently served in various capacities under Ralph
Bunche between 1954 and 1971. Over this period, Sir Brian Urquhart
was centrally involved in the conferences on peaceful uses of atomic
energy, the Congo crisis in the early 1960s, and peacekeeping in Cyprus,
Kashmir, and the Middle East. In the period after 1972, Brian Urquhart
was one of the principal political advisors of the Secretary-General
and served as the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs,
working on Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, and Namibia, among others.
With his early experience on the ground in the Middle East and the
Congo, and his twelve years as Under Secretary-General, he is widely
regarded as the pioneer of the modern concept of international peace-keeping.
He retired from the United Nations Secretariat in 1986. From 1986 to
1996 he was a scholar-in-residence in the International Affairs program
of The Ford Foundation. He is the author of Hammarskjold, Ralph Bunche:
An American Life, Decolonization and World Peace, A World in Need of
Leadership: Tomorrow's United Nations, and A Life in Peace and War.
He is the coauthor of Military-Civilian Interactions: Intervening in
Humanitarian Crises and Mission With UNIFIL: An African Soldier's Reflections.
