Event Date: March 11, 2010 - 2:30 pm
Location: Social Science Building, 120 University pvt, Room 4004
A talk by Stephen John Stedman, Stanford University.
Co-sponsor: Canadian International Council – National Capital Branch.
Free. Registration is not required. This event will be in English.
Stephen Stedman joined the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation CISAC in 1997 as a senior research scholar, and was named a senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and CISAC and professor of political science (by courtesy) in 2002. Stedman directs Stanford’s Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies and is a director of ‘Managing Global Insecurity,’ a joint project with Stanford, New York University and the Brookings Institution. Stedman’s research addresses the future of international organizations and institutions, an area of study inspired by his work at the United Nations. In 2003, he was recruited to serve as the research director of the U.N. High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. Upon completion of the panel’s report, A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, Secretary General Kofi Annan asked Stedman to remain at the U.N. as an assistant secretary-general to help gain worldwide support in implementing the panel’s recommendations. Before joining Stanford, Stedman was an associate professor of African studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. In 1993, he was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, where he studied the negotiations for a new constitution. He was an election observer in Angola in 1992 and in South Africa in 1994. He has also served as a consultant to the United Nations on issues of peacekeeping in civil war, light weapons proliferation and conflict in Africa, and preventive diplomacy.
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