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Saturday, February 28

TransAtlantic Rift: The Future of US-EU Relations

Michael Johnson, Chief of Prosecutions, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; former Acting Deputy Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; former Chairman, Board of Directors, International Criminal Justice Resource Center

Gwyn Prins, Coauthor, Understanding Unilateralism in American Foreign Relations ; author, The Heart of War: On Power, Conflict and Obligation in the 21st Century ; former Senior Fellow, Office of the Special Adviser on Central and Eastern European Affairs, office of the Secretary-General, NATO; Alliance Research Professor, European Institute, London School of Economics and Columbia University

Amb. Pierre Schori, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sweden; Chair, United Nations Committee for Parliamentarians for Global Action; Chair, Olof Palme Memorial Fund; former 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, Sweden; former Member, European Parliament; Author, Can the United Nations Manage the New Era?

Moderators: Laura Arriaza and Shaunik Panse, EPIIC Colloquium