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Charles Current Senior Fellow Chuck Call:
Charles "Chuck" Call has an oped in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, November 16, entitled "Obama Sure to Abandon the Bush Doctrine."

 

Pierre Hazan book coverPierre Hazan, Senior Fellow 2005–2006:
On November 22, 2008, in Paris, Pierre Hazan will be awarded the Georges Dreyfuss Prize, established in 1927, for his book Juger la guerre, juger l'histoire [Judging War, Judging History] (Presses Universitaires de France, September 2007), a study of the international transitional justice movement. This book was the product of his senior fellowship year at USIP. Dr. Hazan is currently a Visiting Lecturer in International Affairs at the “Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales et du Développement” in Geneva. He served as an advisor for Louise Arbor, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the Review of the 2001 anti-racist World Conference which took place in Durban.

Pierre Hazan Dr. Hazan visited the Institute on October 31 and gave an update on the upcoming Durban Review Conference scheduled for April 2009 in Geneva and an analysis of the different views expressed by the Islamic countries and the Western countries over freedoms of expression and hate speech.

 

Zachary Abuza, Senior Fellow 2005–2006:
Zachary Abuza, a Professor at Simmons College, took part in a policy forum, co-sponsored by New America Foundation and NYU Center on Law and Security, in the U.S. Senate on October 8, 2008, on Al-Qaeda, “Al Qaeda 301.” Dr. Abuza was part of a panel entitled “Counter-Radicalization: What Works?”

Go  View the forum agenda and video-streaming of panels

Go Dr. Abuza also published a piece in Jane’s Intelligence Digest in April, “Criminal Gangs of the Southern Philipines,” which can be accessed as a pdf from his homepage

 

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