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Macalester International Roundtable: "The
United Nations Organization: What Future?"
October 2006
The 2006 Macalester International Roundtable
is made possible by financial support from the
DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Visitors Fund. |
Thursday, October 12
4:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Opening Statements and Introduction, Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel
Ahmed I. Samatar, James Wallace Professor and
Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship
Brian C. Rosenberg, President of Macalester College
4:45 - 6:15 p.m.
Late for a Very Important Date: The United Nations in Wonderland
Janice Gross Stein
Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and
Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies,
University of Toronto
Friday, October 13
Morning Session (9:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.), Weyerhaeuser Memorial
Chapel
9:30 - 9:40 a.m.
Introduction
Chair: Daniel Kaplan, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics
and Computer Science
9:40 - 10:25 a.m.
The Decline and Fall of the United Nations: Why the U.N. has
Failed
and How it Needs to be Reformed
Nile Gardiner
Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, Heritage Foundation
10:25 - 10:55 a.m.
Respondents
Natalia Espejo '07
Andrew Latham, Associate Professor of Political Science and
Associate Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship
10:55 - 11:10 a.m.
Response by Nile Gardiner
11:10 - 11:25 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:25 a.m. - 12:10
Questions and Comments
Afternoon Session (1:30 - 4:10 p.m.), Weyerhaeuser Memorial
Chapel
1:30 - 1:40 p.m.
Introduction
Chair: Diane Michelfelder, Provost and Dean of Faculty
1:40 - 2:25 p.m.
The United Nations with a Focus on Africa
Francis M. Deng
Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Kluge Center of the Library
of Congress;
Research Professor of International Politics, Law, and Society,
and Director of
the Center for Displacement Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School
of Advanced
International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
2:25 - 2:55 p.m.
Respondents
Tonderai Chikuhwa '96, Office of the Special Representative for
Children
and Armed Conflict, United Nations
Dianna Shandy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
2:55 - 3:10 p.m.
Response by Francis M. Deng
3:10 - 3:25 p.m. Coffee Break
3:25 - 4:10 p.m. Questions and Comments
Saturday, October 14
10:00 - 10:10 a.m.
Introduction by Karine Moe, Professor of Economics
10:10 - 11:10 a.m.
Roundtable Discussion featuring Janice Gross Stein, Nile Gardiner,
and Francis M. Deng
11:10 - 12:10
Audience Questions and Comments
12:10 - 12:15 p.m.
Closing Remarks by Dean Ahmed I. Samatar
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