UCI Offers Series of Lectures on Peace
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UC Irvine’s global peace and conflict studies department will offer a series of free lectures for its 1997 winter forum.
The first lecture, titled “The Challenge in Cross-Border Cooperation: Some Lessons From the German-Danish Border Region,” will be given Thursday by Birte Holst Joergensen, researcher for Stanford University’s Center for European Studies.
All lectures will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at UC Irvine’s Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100.
The remaining lectures are scheduled as follows:
* Jan. 30--Lynn Visson, staff interpreter for the United Nations, will present “The Missing Link: The Role of the Interpreter in Conflict Resolution Negotiations.”
* Feb. 13--Catarina Kinvall, a visiting professor of politics and society at UCI, will speak on “Democracy and Ethnic Conflict in India.”
* Feb. 27--Hilal Khashan, associate professor at American University in Beirut, will lead “The Making of Militant Islam.”
* March 13--Ido Aharoni, consul for communications and public affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles, will present “The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations: An Insider’s View.”
The global peace and conflict studies department is dedicated to research on international affairs. The department is funded by UCI and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
Reservations are not needed for the lectures. Information: (714) 824-6410.
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