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For immediate release: Nov. 14, 2000
Media advisory: Panel explores Middle East conflict
WHO: Roger Normand, executive director, Center for Economic and Social Rights; Phyllis Bennis, fellow, Transnational Institute and Institute for Policy Studies; and Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice and director, World Order Studies Program.
WHAT: Panel discussion on the "Crisis in the Middle East: Human Rights, International Law, and U.S. Foreign Policy." Free and open to the public.
WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 16 at 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall on the Princeton campus
Panelist Roger Normand is co-founder and executive director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), one of the first human rights groups to focus on poverty and economic exploitation. Before establishing CESR, Normand organized the Harvard Study Team missions to Iraq in 1991, the first independent investigation of the effects of war and sanctions on Iraq’s civilian population.
A former radio journalist, panelist Phyllis Bennis is a writer and commentator on Middle East political and security questions. She is a fellow of the Transnational Institute as well as the Institute for Policy Studies and is currently directing a project on internationalizing the Palestinian-Israeli peace process after Oslo.
Panelist Richard A. Falk is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice and professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. He also serves as director of the World Order Studies Program. Falk is the co-author of On Humane Governance: Toward New Global Politics; Human Rights and State Sovereignty; and many other volumes on international affairs. He is the honorary vice president of the American Society of International Law, and he served as research director of the North American Team in the World Order Models Project and the Coming Global Civilization Project.
This discussion is sponsored by Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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