Next Global Agenda lecture slated Wednesday

Olara Otunnu

8:01 p.m., March 3, 2006--UD's spring Global Agenda lecture series, “Hidden Dangers: Global Challenges Below the Radar,” continues at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 8, with a lecture by Olara Otunnu, former UN Under-Secretary General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.

Otunnu is the president of LBL Foundation for Children, an independent international organization devoted to promoting protection, hope, healing and rehabilitation for children in communities devastated by war. He is a former foreign minister of Uganda. At the UN, he was the architect of the groundbreaking comprehensive compliance regime for the protection of children, an international monitoring and reporting system to document and punish abuses against children.

All lectures in the series will be held at 7:30 p.m., Wednesdays, in Mitchell Hall, except as otherwise noted. The series, which continues through May 17, is free and open to the public.

The speaker for the April 5 lecture will be announced later, and the lecture by John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will be held at 6:30 p.m., Monday, April 10.

Remaining lectures in the series include:

March 22, Lisa Meadowcroft, executive director, African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREFUSA)--AMREF's mission is to improve the health of disadvantaged people in Africa as a means for them to escape poverty and improve the quality of their lives. AMREF's six priorities are: HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis; malaria; safe water and environmental sanitation; family health; clinical outreach; disaster management and emergency response; and training and development of health learning materials;
April 5, to be announced;
6:30 p.m., Monday, April 10, John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations--Bolton's experience in government spans the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. Bolton was named U.N. ambassador in 2005 without Senate confirmation. A Baltimore native, Bolton has served in the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Before his appointment as U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security in 2001, Bolton was senior vice president of the American Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit public policy center in Washington, D.C.;
May 3, John McLaughlin, former acting director and deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency--McLaughlin's CIA career spanned more than 30 years, beginning in 1972 with a focus on European, Russian and Eurasian issues. He was director of European analysis and director of Slavic and Eurasian analysis. While deputy director for intelligence, he created the Senior Analytic Service. He founded the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, teaching the history, mission and essential skills of the analytic profession to new CIA employees; and
May 17, Kenneth Pollack, former CIA and National Security Council analyst on the Middle East--Pollack is Director of Research for the Saban Center for Middle East Studies at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he served on the National Security Council during the Clinton administration. He was a senior research professor at the National Defense University and an Iran-Iraq military analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1988-95.

Organized by Ralph Begleiter, UD's Rosenberg Professor of Communication and distinguished journalist in residence, the series is designed to survey potential threats to the United States and explore the complex framework of global relations. The series is cosponsored by the University of Delaware and the World Affairs Council of Wilmington.

For more information on the speakers and their subjects, visit [www.udel.edu/global]. For general information on the series, call the Department of Communication at (302) 831-8041.

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