Lenore G. Martin, Sara Roy & Herbert C. Kelman, Co-Chairs. Jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

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Spring 2005 Schedule

February 10, 2005
International Law: Helping or Hindering Protection in Gaza?
Claude Bruderlein
Director, Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard School of Public Health; and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

February 24, 2005
US Foreign Assistance in the Palestinian Territories: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects
Larry Garber
Executive Director, New Israel Fund; and former Director, USAID Mission to the West Bank and Gaza

February 28, 2005
The Ethnography of Martyrdom
Joint session with the HCK Seminar on International Conflict Analysis & Resolution
Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg
Authors of The Road to Martyrs' Square, Oxford University Press

March 10, 2005
Arafat Revisited: An Assessment of His Role in the Search for a Two-State Solution
Joint session with the HCK Seminar on International Conflict Analysis & Resolution
Herbert C. Kelman
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, Harvard University

March 17, 2005
The U.S. Policy in Iraq
Anthony Cordesman
Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, The Center for Strategic & International Studies

March 24, 2005
Cancelled
Iranian-U.S. Relations
M. Javad Zarif
Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations

April 7, 2005
Shia Politics and Tribes in Southern Iraq: Reinventing Civil Society Post-Saddam Iraq
Rory Stewart
Fellow, The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government and former Coalition Deputy Governor of Amara and Nasariya, Iraq (2003-04)

April 14, 2005
Israel-Palestinian Relations: The Regional Context
Shai Feldman
Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

Fall 2004 Schedule

September 23, 2004
Reform with Stability in Saudi Arabia: Is it Possible?
Jamal Khashoggi
Media Advisor to the Saudi Ambassador to London and former Editor-in-Chief of Al-Watan

September 27, 2004
Adapting Intervention to the Phase of the Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Workshops in the Context of the Second Intifada
Joint session with the HCK Seminar on International Conflict Analysis & Resolution
Herbert C. Kelman
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, Harvard University

October 21, 2004
The Dynamics of Internal Israeli Politics and Their Long-Term Consequences
Naomi Chazan
Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University, and Former Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset; and Research Fellow, MIT

November 4, 2004
U.S.-Syrian Relations
Imad Moustapha
Ambassador of Syria to the United States

November 18, 2004
The Jewish Question, the Palestinian Question: Resolution or Displacement?
Joseph Massad
Assistant Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History, Columbia University

December 2, 2004
Applying the Genocide Convention: The Case of Darfur
Jennifer Leaning
Professor of International Health, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health

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