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April 20
5:30 reception,
6:00 presentation
City Hall
Assembly Chambers
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War
and Peace in East Timor: Doing Justice After
the Shooting Stops
Justice Phillip Rapoza, Chief Judge, International War Crimes
Tribunal, East Timor.
Justice Rapoza is a member of the Massachusetts Court of
Appeals. In 2003 he was appointed to chair the Special
Panel, a war crimes tribunal established by the United Nations to deal
with war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, murder, rape and torture
committed during a campaign of terror waged in 1999 by elements opposed to East Timor's independence. The Special Panel is similar
to international tribunals established to conduct trials of war criminals
from Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
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Tuesday March 28
5:30 reception,
6:00 presentation
Goldtown Nickelodeon Theatre
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Tuesday Night Travelogue:
Madagascar: The Powerpoint--Not the Movie
Linda Layfield
A presentation on Madagascar given by a Juneauite who has traveled
and lived in nearly 100 different countries and NEVER had a favorite country
UNTIL spending the last 3 and a half years in Madagascar as a Peace Corps
staff member. See the incredible biodiversity of this large island
nation and chat about the country, the people, Peace Corps' activities
there and anything else you want to know.
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March 22
5:30 reception,
6:00 presentation
Assembly Chambers, City Hall
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The Canada-United States
Partnership: An Alaska perspective
Karen Matthias, Canadian Consul for Alaska
Karen Matthias is the Canadian Consul in Alaska. She is a career foreign
service officer who has served abroad at the Canadian Embassy in Moscow, Russia,
and on a conflict resolution mission to Moldova
with the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe.
Back in Canada's capital, Ottawa, she has worked
in divisions responsible for policy planning, communications and European
relations. Karen has a bachelor's degree from the University
of Victoria and undertook graduate
studies in Russian literature at the University of Alberta.
She was also a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar at the University of Helsinki.
www.anchorage.gc.ca
pkaren.matthias@international.gc.cap
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March 8
5:30-6:30
Assembly Chambers, City Hall
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European Union Environmental
Policy: An Overview.
Ole Tougaard, EU Fellow at the North Pacific Fisheries Commission
Tougaard is currently working at the European Union Centre at the University of Washington. He isa longstanding senior
adivisor to the European Union on fisheries management and served between
1994 and 2001 as president of the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission.
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Tues March 14, 2006
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Goldtown
Nickelodeon
Theatre
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Tuesday Night Travelogue:
Tunisia: A country that
works
with Alan McCabe
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Tues Feb. 21, 2006
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Goldtown
Nickelodeon
Theatre
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Tuesday Night Travelogue:
Touring South
Africa and Botswana
with Scott and Denice McPherson
The McPhersons toured the Cape Town, Garden Coast
and Kruger National
Park areas in South Africa
and a portion of the Okavango Delta in Botswana in August 2005.
The trip was self-arranged and included two tours by separate guiding
companies that specialize in accommodating individuals with disabilities,
sandwiched between self-guided adventuring in other areas of South Africa.
August is traditionally the dry or cold season in southern Africa, with inland areas dry and coastal climes cool
and sometimes wet.
Scott and Denice will show slides that capture the essence of some of their
experiences from start to end. They were struck by the diversity of
many things in the area, from its peoples, languages, geography, climate and
certainly the flora and fauna.
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February 15
5:30 presentation
Assembly Chambers, City Hall
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Alaska’s
role in America’s
national defense
Lt. General Douglas Fraser, Commander, Alaskan Air Command
Lt. Gen. Douglas M. Fraser is Commander of Alaskan Command, Alaskan North
American Aerospace Defense Command Region, 11th Air Force and Joint Task
Force - Alaska, with headquarters at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. He is
the senior military officer in Alaska
responsible for the integration of all military activities in the Alaskan
theater of operations.
As Commander of the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command
Region, General Fraser directs air operations within Alaska to ensure defense against all
hostile airborne threats. Reporting to Northern Command, he is the Commander
of Joint Task Force - Alaska
and is responsible for the planning and execution of all Homeland Defense
operations within the theater, including security and civil support actions.
General Fraser earned his commission upon graduation from the U.S. Air
Force Academy in 1975. His operational assignments include Europe,
the Pacific, Air Combat Command and Air Force Space Command. The general is a
command pilot with more than 2,700 flying hours, primarily in the
F-15A/B/C/D, F-15E and the F-16.
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February 8
5:30 reception,
6:00 presentation
Assembly Chambers, City Hall
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Jonathan Adelman:The Middle
East and the New World Order
A focus on understanding the Arab-Israeli crisis through analysis of the
relationship of the Middle East to the New World Order (democracy,
capitalism, national self-determination, civil society, rule of law).
Professor Jonathan Adelman, professor at the Graduate School of
International Studies at the University
of Denver, is a frequent and popular
speaker on Israel.
The Doctoral Dissertation Adviser of National Security Adviser Condoleezza
Rice, he is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
in Washington.
The author and editor of ten books, Professor Adelman just returned from Israel,
where he gave talks at the Israeli Foreign Ministry and for Hasbara
Fellowships in the Old City of Jerusalem.
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February 1
5:30 reception,
6:00. presentation
Assembly Chambers, City Hall
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Avian Influenza: Alaska at the Crossroads
Dr. Douglas Causey, Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, UAA
Dr. Causey, a professor of biology from the University of Alaska
Anchorage, is working to understand what the
role is of migratory birds in the spread and transmission of Avian influenza.
He's trying to unlock the mystery of how birds become infected, while
tracking the natural history of the virus.
Causey has worked for a decade on this problem in the high Arctic and Alaska's North Slope
to better understand the natural occurrence of Influenza in the environment
and in wild birds. One critical question he's trying to tackle is how Avian
Influenza will affect the enormous populations of migratory birds breeding in
Alaska.
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January 26, 2006
5:00pm-7:00pm
Centennial Hall , Juneau
Free Admission
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Women’s Lives,
Children’s Futures, & the Planet’s Hope:
The Power & Promise of Family Planning
Speakers and panelists will explore connections among world population,
environmental health, individual health, and the education and empowerment of
women.
Ellen Marshall: Specialist, International Women’s Health
Issues, from Boulder, Colorado
Judith DeSarno: President, National Family Planning &
Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA), Washington, DC
Annette Souder: Director of the Sierra Club’s Global
Population and Environment Program, San Francisco, CA
Clover Simon: CEO, Planned Parenthood of Alaska, Anchorage
Ellen Marshall is a Partner at Good Works Group, a professional-services
firm that consults with non-profit organizations on communications, strategy,
public policy, and fundraising.
Local advocacy, healthcare, environmental, educational and family planning
groups will be on hand to network and inspire action within the Juneau community.
Supporting organizations include: Juneau
World Affairs Council, League of Women Voters, Northern Light
Church, Planned
Parenthood of Alaska , Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Alaska Native
Sisterhood Camp 70, Juneau Pro-Choice Coalition, Alaska Women’s
Network, Sierra Club, Juneau Chapter of the National Organization for Women,
Women’s Voices
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Friday
January 13, 2006
A JWAC fundraiser
at Centennial Hall
6:00 to 10:00 pm Business or
semi-formal attire.
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Juneau World Affairs Council
WorldQuest Fundraising Event
Feeling Lucky? Join us for WorldQuest
2006, a game testing contestants’ knowledge of world affairs,
geography, history, culture, flags, sports, world leaders, economics,
international organizations, countries, and more.
It will be an exciting night, with teams formed from the community
competing against each other. Bring home the 2006 trophy!
Exotic foods from around the world will be featured, along with a no-host
bar. In addition, we will hold a silent auction.
Tickets will be available in December for $50 each from Hearthside Books
and The Observatory bookstore, or from JWAC Board members. 
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Tues Jan. 17, 2006
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Goldtown
Nickelodeon
Theatre
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Tuesday Night Travelogue:
The Isle of
Man with Elfrida Nord.
Group picture taken on Tynvald Hill
The tour of the Isle of Man was arranged
by Nordmanns-Forbundet, a world-wide organization under the patronage of the
King of Norway. The mission of Nordmanns-Forbundet is “to promote
solidarity between Norwegians and Norwegians abroad and further the cause of
Norwegian culture and interest.” The timing of the tour was to
coincide with Tynvald Day – an annual closing ceremony of the Isle of
Man 1,000 year Parliament to which we were invited. Another purpose was to
experience the Isle of Man's preservation of
their Viking heritage.
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Tuesday Travelog
May 3, 2005
5:30 at the Gold
Town Nickelodeon
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Rory Darling: New Zealand
By Bicycle
My wife and I cycled major portions of both islands for 5 months (October
- March 2002).
The talk will provide a geographic overview of the country and describe it
from a cyclist perspective. It will summarize the primary busines and social
attitudes that we encountered. It will discuss the amenities and challenges
that New Zealand
presents to the truly independent traveller. There are many photos that
capture the landscape, towns, and "life on the road".
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Tuesday Night Travelogue; April 5
5:30 at the Gold
Town Nickelodeon
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Rorie Watt: The new Scottish Parliament Building
at Holyrood.
The search for a site for the new Parliament building commenced following
the Referendum in September 1997 in which the people of Scotland
voted for the creation of the first Scottish Parliament in almost 300 years,
also giving it the right to vary the rate of income tax. The Secretary of
State committed the Parliament to meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland's
capital city. Site preparation began in 1999 and was recently completed.
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/images/latest/
Rorie will be showing his own photographs of the setting of the parliament
building in Edinburgh,
as well as of the interior and exterior of the building--photographs captured
through the eyes of an engineer.
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Tuesday
April 12, 2005
Dimond Court Building
5:30 Reception,
6:00 Talk
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Mary Beth West: Directions
in International Oceans Policy.
Ms. West is currently the State Department Chair and Professor of
Political Science at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense
University. From 1996
to 2003, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries in the
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs of
the Department of State. In October 1998, she received Senate confirmation
for the Rank of Ambassador during her tenure as Deputy Assistant Secretary.
In 1978, Ms. West joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), where she served as an attorney in the Office of the
General Counsel, Special Assistant to the Administrator, Acting Deputy
General Counsel and Acting General Counsel. At NOAA, Ms. West was involved in
the negotiation of international fisheries, fisheries trade, and scientific
cooperation agreements, and also handled other oceans-related issues.
Ms. West has published and lectured in the areas of oceans law,
alternative dispute resolution, Indian law and international law.
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Tuesday, April 19
Dimond Court Building
5:30 Reception,
6:00 Talk
No Host Dinner
to Follow
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Bernd Westphal, German
Consul General San Francisco:
The Transatlantic Alliance:
A German perspective
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in San
Francisco (consular district: Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Hawaii and Alaska).
Born 6 October 1944 at Diez/Germany, married, two children
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1963 - 1968
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Law studies at Bonn and Freiburg Universities;
Law degree Freiburg
University
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1972
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joined German Foreign Office, Bonn
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1972 - 1973
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Attaché, German Embassy Cairo/Egypt
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1974 - 1977
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Second Secretary, German Embassy Jeddah/Saudi Arabia
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1977 - 1980
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First Secretary, Foreign Office Bonn, Near East Department
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1980 - 1983
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Counselor and Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy Lusaka/Zambia
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1983 - 1987
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Counselor, German Permanent Mission
to the United Nations, New York
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1987 - 1990
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Head of Section for German Personnel at International
Organizations at Foreign Office, Bonn
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1990 - 1992
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Minister Counselor and Deputy Head of Mission,
German Embassy Riyadh/Saudi Arabia
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1992 - 1996
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Minister Counselor and Head of Economic Department,
German Embassy, London/United Kingdom
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1996 - 2001
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Head of Division for Immigration and Visa, German
Foreign Office, Bonn and Berlin
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2001
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Consul General San Francisco
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Wednesday
March 30, 2005
Dimond Court Building
5:00 Reception,
5:30 Talk
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Alaska's Senator Lisa Murkowski will speak to the Juneau
World Affairs Council on Wednesday, March 30
Sen. Murkowski, who is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
will address a range of issues related to world affairs.
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Thursday
March 31 to April 3
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The
Pacific Rim Forum
Sponsored by the Juneau World Affairs Council in Collaboration with the University of Alaska Southeast's Humanities Conference
Pacific Rim Forum Web site
At the University
of Alaska Southeast
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Wednesday
March 16, 2005
Dimond Court Building
5:30 Reception,
6:00 Talk
No Host Dinner
to Follow
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Dahr Jamail: An Unembedded Reporter's View of the Current
Situation in Iraq
six months later.
Mr. Jamail has written as a freelance journalist for 4.5 years including 2
years for The Anchorage Press, and is recently returned from Iraq.
Recently he served as the Iraq
correspondent for The NewStandard, a new progressive hard news site based in Syracuse, NY.
He has written articles for The Nation, Inter Press Service, and IslamOnline,
and radio reports for BBC, numerous smaller community stations, Radio Hong
Kong, CBC television, and was the special correspondent for Pacifica
Flashpoints radio.
He has completed an in depth investigative reports for Public Citizen
concerning Bechtel's failure to uphold their contract of rebuilding Iraq's water infrastructure, and is currently
working on a similar report concerning the hospitals in Iraq for
Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Web Links:
Dahr Jamail: http://dahrjamailiraq.com
NewStandard:
http://newstandardnews.net/promo2/?action=show_about
Islam on Line: http://www.islamonline.net/english/index.shtml
Flashpoints: http://www.flashpoints.net/
Inter Press Service: http://www.ipsnews.net/
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Tuesday
March 8, 2005
Dimond Court Building
5:30 Reception,
6:00 Talk
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Kristen Bomengen: Witness
to the Orange Revolution;
Observing the 2004 Ukraine
Presidential Elections
Kristen Bomengen is a Juneau resident who
first became involved with international elections as an OSCE elections
supervisor in Bosnia
in 1997.
Since then, she has been to Eastern Europe
half a dozen times to observe elections in the region.
In December, she served as an international observer in Ukraine for
the final round of the 2004 Presidential elections. She was assigned to
observe at the central counting facility in the Ivano-Frankivsk region in the
western part of the country. Kristen will talk about the main political
divisions that contributed to the Orange Revolution and the role that the
OSCE/ODIHR international observer mission played in supporting a free and
transparent election process in Ukraine.
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Friday
January 28, 2005
Juneau
Yacht Club
7:30
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Kim Nesselquist: Norway's
Approach to World Peace.
Kim will be the speaker at the 70th anniversary celebration of the Sons of
Norway Juneau Lodge, Svalbard Lodge # 33, and the 100th anniversary of the
independence of Norway
from Sweden.
He will speak and lead an open forum on the topic "Norway's
approach to World Peace.
Kim was born and grew up in Norway,
was involved in Norwegian politics, and is currently Executive Director and
CEO of the Norwegian American Foundation based in Seattle, Washington.
The Norwegian American Foundation is coordinating all of the events
nationwide for Norway's
100th anniversary of their dissolution with Sweden in 1905, when they gained
their independence, without going to war.
The Juneau World Affairs Council is happy to cosponsor this event.
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Tuesday
Night Travelogue Series #3: Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Elizabeth
Medgysi on India, Nepal and Tibet
5:30
at the Gold Town Nickelodeon
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Tuesday
January 18, 2005
Dimond Court Building
5:30 Reception,
6:00 Talk
No Host Dinner
to Follow
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Rich McClear: I called for
help and 100,000 people came:
The use of Media in Democratic Development in the Balkans.
McClear currently serves as Senior Media Advisor to the International
Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) where he designs and implements regional
media development programs for cross border initiatives in Eastern
Europe and the Former Soviet Union. In the past decade, Rich has
worked out of Albania and Serbia and has done field work in Bosnia, Kosovo,
Croatia, Montenegro, the Czech
Republic, Bulgaria
and Georgia.
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Thursday
January 13, 2005
Dimond Court Building
5:30 Reception,
6:00 Talk
No Host Dinner
to Follow
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Jim Ayers, Director of Oceana, North Pacific Office
Based in: Juneau,
Alaska
What’s all this talk about our Oceans in Peril?
Recently two blue ribbon panels—the Pew Oceans Commission and the
U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy—produced reports which document that
our oceans are in serious trouble and we must immediately change the way we
manage them. There are two major threats to our oceans—pollution and
destructive fishing practices.
Simply put, sustainable existence relies on what we put in the ocean and what
we take out of it. We have used our ingenuity to be more efficient in both
production and harvest and are now reaping the results with drastic declines
of fish, marine mammals, seabirds, and habitat; and drastic increases in
pollutants and toxins in our marine ecosystems. It is time to use our
ingenuity to solve the problem.
Oceana campaigns to protect and restore the world’s
oceans. Our teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win
specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the
irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life.
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Saturday
January 15, 2005
A JWAC fundraiser
at Centennial Hall
6:00 to 10:00 pm
Business or semi-formal attire
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Juneau World Affairs Council
WorldQuest Fundraising Event
WorldQuest is a game testing contestant’s knowledge
of world affairs, geography, history, culture, flags, sports, world leaders,
economics, international organizations, countries, and more.
It will be an exciting night, with teams formed from the community
competing against each other.
Exotic foods from around the world will be featured, along with a no-host
bar. In addition, we will hold a silent auction.
Tickets will be available in December for $60 each or packets of five for
$250 from Hearthside Books and The Observatory bookstore, or from JWAC Board
members.
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Tuesday
January 11, 2005
Dimond Court Building
5:30 Reception,
6:00 Talk
No Host Dinner
to Follow
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Victoria Samson: Moving
Towards Weapons in Space?.
Victoria
writes a bi-monthly email news
update on space security matters, looking at the latest events in
military and civilian space sectors. She co-authored, "Space-based
interceptors: Still not a good idea," which was published in the
Summer/Fall 2004 issue of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.
She also wrote, "Lift
the veil on space weaponization," an op-ed which ran in the April
12, 2004, edition of Space News.
Victoria Samson joined the Center for Defense Information in November
2001. Her areas of interest include missile defense, space security, nuclear
reductions, and emerging weapons technologies. She also serves as a liaison
between the Washington and LA CDI offices. Prior to coming to CDI, Ms. Samson
was the Senior Policy Associate at the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, a
consortium of arms control groups in the Washington, DC,
area.
She previously worked as a subcontractor on war-gaming scenarios for the
Missile Defense Agency's Directorate of Intelligence. Ms. Samson has an MA in
International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies. She also holds a BA in Political Science with a
specialization in International Relations from UCLA.
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Tuesday
December 21
Dimond Court Building
5:30 Reception,
6:00 Talk
No Host Dinner
to Follow
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Charles Wohlforth: The Whale and the Supercomputer
I write about Alaska,
where I have lived all my life. My books include travel guides and narrative
nonfiction. My Web site includes some
of my work, travel advice to Alaska
and the national parks, and discussion boards for reader comments and
questions.
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The Whale and the Supercomputer, just out from Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, is an adventure story about climate change. Eskimos in Alaska's Arctic cope
with a changing world. Scientists struggle to understand the changes. A
great challenge to mankind has arrived: this is the story of the first
people attempting to meet it.
More about:
The Whale and the Supercomputer
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Wednesday
December 15
Dimond Court Building
5:30 Reception,
6:00 Talk
No Host Dinner
to Follow
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Dr. Mike Dunning, UAS (Ketchikan):
Parking Lots in Paradise: The Changing Nature of Cruise Ship Tourism
in Alaska
and Beyond
Dr. Mike Dunning came to the University
of Alaska Southeast
– Ketchikan Campus in 1997 and has been teaching the History of Alaska
ever since. He was voted Faculty of the Year on the Ketchikan Campus for the
Academic year 2003-2004. He is currently on the Alaska Historical Society
Board of Directors and the Editorial Advisory Board for Alaska History. In Ketchikan he helped
revive the Tongass Historical Society and served as its president for a
number of years.
His research and publications focus on Southeast
Alaska in the 20th Century. He has presented papers on the
region locally, nationally and internationally. He will be presenting papers
on “British Columbia’s Role in the Alaska Inside Passage Tourist
Industry” at the BC Studies Conference at the University of Northern
British Columbia in Prince George in April 2005, and on “Alaskan
Independence and the Global Tourist Industry” at the Western History
Association Conference in Phoenix in October 2005.
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Saturday
December 4
12:00 noon
to 2:00 pm
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Juneau World Affairs Annual Membership Meeting.
Turkey
enters the EU; Speaker: Dr. Jerry W. Leach
President of the World Affairs Councils of America.
Dr. Leach is a former US
diplomat who served as Director of International Economic Affairs at the
National Security Council and as Regional Director of the Peace Corps. He
started the new Peace Corps programs in the former Communist world. He has
published a book on a famous trading system and produced an award-winning
documentary film. He holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge
University and lives in Reston, VA
with his wife, Marianne.
Help us celebrate, learn,
and elect officers.
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Friday
October 8
Dimond Court Building
5:30 Reception,
6:00 Talk
No Host Dinner
to Follow
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Thomas Goltz : Turkey
and Caucasus Region of former USSR
For more than a decade, Thomas Goltz has made his living as a writer and
videographer who specializes in the Caucasus area of the former Soviet Union
(Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia
and Chechnya).
Employers have included the Washington Post and the New York Times, US
News and World Report, Forbes Electronic Mailbox, Businessweek, and The
Nation. Other credits include the LA Times, National Geographic News Service,
Pacific News Service, and the London Sunday Times.
He has also produced and filmed several documentary pieces for BBC TV (on Chechnya and
Abkhazia) and acted as a consultant or cameraman for other television
stations, such as ABC Nightline and CBS 60 Minutes, appearing on the
latter’s program on Caspian Oil in 1999.
A forth-coming documentary concerns an intellectual adventure down the
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, that snakes from the Caspian to the eastern Mediterranean.
He speaks Arabic, Turkish, German, Russian, and Azerbaijani.
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Tuesday
September 21
Dimond Court Building
5:30 Reception,
6:00 Talk
No Host Dinner
to Follow
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Nancy Barros: The Third Geneva Convention: Who is Protected by International
Humanitarian Law?
A discussion about the rights provided under IHL and the role the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) plays in ensuring that even
the powerless in time of war have rights. In light of current events, the presentation
will focus on the 3rd Geneva Convention, which states the rights of prisoners
of war and detainees.
In an imperfect world, International Humanitarian Law (IHL) serves as the
internationally agreed upon standard of humane treatment and response to
non-combatants and combatants alike during armed conflict. Its principal
legal documents are the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and two sets of
additional protocols that further expand these rights. These documents
establish protections for wounded and sick combatants on land or sea,
prisoners of war, and civilians.
Web links:
International Red Cross: http://www.icrc.org
American Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org
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Thursday,
May 20
5:30 pm. reception
6:00 pm. talk
Dimond Courthouse
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Current International Broadcast Bureau Initiatives Worldwide
Seth Cropsey, Director, International Broadcast Bureau
Seth Cropsey was sworn in as Director of the International Broadcasting
Bureau (IBB) on December 9, 2002, following his appointment by President Bush
and confirmation by the Senate in November 2002.
Mr. Cropsey was Director of Policy at the Voice of America (VOA) from 1982
to 1984, and his appointment as IBB Director marks his return to U.S.
government international broadcasting.
"No mission of our government," said Cropsey, "is more
important today than communicating clearly, forcefully, and effectively
America's hope that those beyond our borders will enjoy the blessings of
prosperity, peace, and liberty that we and our democratic friends around the
world enjoy. I am honored and delighted to return to this vital
mission."
- Project for the New
American Century: Signatory
- American Enterprise
Institute: Former fellow
- Former deputy
undersecretary of the navy (1984-90)
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Monday,
May 10, 2004
5:30 pm. reception
6:00 pm. talk
Dimond Courthouse
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US Relations with the European Union
Dr. Simon Serfaty is the director of the Europe Program
at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington,
DC, and senior professor of U.S. foreign policy with the Graduate Programs
in International Studies (GPIS) at Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia.
In May 2001, Old
Dominion University
designated Dr. Serfaty as Eminent Scholar of the university. In September
2003, he was named the first holder of the Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in
Global Security and Geostrategy at CSIS.
From 1972 to 1993, he was a Research Professor at the Johns Hopkins School
of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC, serving as
director of the Johns Hopkins Center of European Studies in Bologna, Italy
(1972-1976), director of the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research
91978-1980), and as executive director of the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy
Institute (1984-1991).
Dr. Serfaty is the author of a large number of books. Most recent among
them are La tentation impériale (2004), Memories of
Europe’s Future: Farewell to Yesteryear (1999), Stay the
Course (1997), and Taking Europe Seriously (1992). Power
and Order: The Imperial Temptation and its European Dimension (2004) is
soon to be released.
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Tuesday,
May 11
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Our last meeting before our summer recess will be this coming Tuesday at
7:30 p.m. in room 224 at city hall.
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Friday,
May 14
5:30 pm. reception
6:00 pm. talk
Dimond Courthouse
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Reflecting on the 150th Anniversary of US Japan
Relations, and the Japan-Alaska partnership.
Akihiro Aoki, Consulate-General of Japan
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Tuesday, May 4
Talks at noon and
7:00 pm.
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Medea Benjamin
Founding Director of Global Exchange
Co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace **
Leading activist in the peace
and social & economic justice movement
TUESDAY, MAY 4TH
8:00 -10:00 am Juneau
Douglas High
School social studies/government classes.
“Code Pink: How Women are Waging Peace”
12:00- 1:00 Lunch Talk
At Northern Light United Church Fellowship Hall
3:30 pm Interview on KTOO Juneau
Afternoon with Susan Fitzgerald.
“Building a Movement Against Empire: From the WTO to the
Occupation of Iraq”
7:00 – 8:30pm
At the UAS Egan Library Auditorium
Author of "Bridging the Global Gap, The Peace Corps and More,"
and the award-winning book "Don't Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran
Woman Speaks from the Heart."
Events Sponsored by:
Juneau People
for Peace& Justice
Juneau World Affairs Council
UAS/Global Connections
KTOO By the People
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www.by-the-people.org
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Do
you know what happened in the world
today?
Juneau in the World
an interactive evening
of live performance and lively conversation about how you and your
neighbors view global events
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Monday, April 26th - Tuesday, April
27th - Wednesday, April 28th
7:00 pm
KTOO-TV Studio, 360 Egan Drive
FREE, limited seating
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Wednesday,
April 28
Reception 5:30 pm.
Program 6:00 to 8:00
Dimond Courthouse
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Israel's
Security Barrier: A Response to Terrorism or an Obstacle to Peace?
In a departure from our regular format we will have two speakers. Bob
Horenstein, Community Relations Director, Jewish Federation of Portland, will
present a Jewish perspective on the issue. The other Amin Odeh of Voices of
Palestine in Seattle,
will present a Palestinian perspective.
The event is not intended to be a debate, but an opportunity to present two
differing perspectives on a controversial and topical issue for public
education purposes. Consistent with our usual format each speaker will give a
presentation; after the presentations there will be an audience question and
answer period followed by closing statements. Finally, as is JWAC's
tradition, members of the audience are welcomed to join the speakers for
dinner at the Fiddlehead.
Bob Horenstein
Community Relations Director, Jewish Federation of Portland, Aug. 1994 -
present
Op-ed columnist, Portland Jewish Review, Aug. 1994 - present
Instructor, teaching course on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, Portland Community College and Clark Community College (Vancouver,
Washington), 2002 - present
MS in Political Science, specializing in Arab-Israeli politics and
international security policy, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
http://www.jewishportland.org/
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Amin Odeh/Voices of Palestine
A refugee from Aida camp near Bethlehem in
the Occupied West Bank of Palestine.
Lived with his family at that camp since they lost their homes in 1947 to
Israeli settlers. After completing high school he went to a technical
college in Jerusalem.
He graduated with a diploma in Electronics in 1987. In the first three
years of the Palestinian uprising between 1987-1993 he was arrested several
times by the Israeli Army for resisting Occupation.
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He moved to the United
States in 1990. He continued his education
here and has been working in the Information Technology Business for the past
ten years. Amin has two kids, an eleven year old boy and a nine year old
girl.
After the second Intifada (uprising) started in Palestine, he and other
local Palestinians helped start a group called Voices of Palestine
(www.voicesofpalestine.org).? The main focus of this group is to educate the
public about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
After the tragedy 9/11 Voices of Palestine worked with other groups here to
start the Arab American Community Coalition. The main goal of the coalition
is to help the Arab/Muslim community in dealing with the new situation that
was created after the tragedy. Also to educate the general public about the
Arab/Muslim people here and abroad. www.voicesofpalestine.org
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Tuesday,
April 6
5:30 pm. reception
6:00 pm. talk
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Gaining People, Losing Ground
Werner Fornos
Werner Fornos, winner of the 2003 United Nations Population Award, has
been president of the Population Institute since 1982. He has been in the
forefront of the struggle to balance the world’s population with the
world’s resources for more than 20 years.
Mr. Fornos joined The Population Institute in 1978 and became its president
in 1982. Prior to his affiliation with the Institute, Mr. Fornos was an
assistant professor at George Washington University
in Washington, D.C., where he headed the
university’s global Population Information Program.
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