New Faces of International Security in the 21st Century

Presented by the Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study and the Center for the Study of Global Change

All sessions will be held in the Distinguished Alumni Room, Indiana Memorial Union, from 3:30 to 5:30 pm.

Presentation Schedule:

	Human Rights and International Security by Sabelo Gumedze Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Gumedze is senior researcher at the Institute of International Security in Pretoria, South Africa. Gumedze is an attorney of the High Court of Swaziland and a human rights activist. Commentator will be Peter Lewis, Associate Professor and Director of African Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. Lewis is also senior associate at the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C.; consultant to USAID, The Carter Center, the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Department of State and the World Bank; and a member of the Research Council of the International Forum for Democratic Studies.
	Terrorism in Europe by John Gearson Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Gearson is Reader in Terrorism Studies and Director of the Center for Defense Studies in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London. He has been a special adviser to the City of London Corporation on the terrorist threat to the city. From 2002 to 2007, Gearson served as the principal defense policy adviser to the Defense Select Committee of the UK House of Commons. Commentator will be Edward Kolodziej, director of the Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has written on a wide variety of international security issues, especially French security policy and policymaking, and has lectured in more than 40 countries on all continents.
	Economic Inequality in Latin America and International Security by Andre de Mello e Souza Wednesday, March 25, 2009 De Mello e Souza is Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is editor of the journal International Context. His research area encompasses international relations and international political economy with particular attention to globalization and its effects. Commentator will be Mitchell Seligson, Centennial Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Seligson has done research and written extensively on the political economy of global inequality and development. He is also a specialist on Latin America.
	Scarcity of Vital Resources: Oil and the Persian Gulf by Ahmad Shikara Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Shikara is researcher at The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi. He has published on the Middle East and the Gulf. He has also worked in the Department of Political Science at the United Arab Emirates University, has been Honorary Professor at the Institute of Developing Economies in Japan, and served as Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Commentator will be Maureen Crandall, Professor of Economics at the Industrial War College of the Armed Forces, Washington, DC.

For more information contact Brian Winchester, Director, Center for the Study of Global Change, 812-856-5523; or John Bodnar, Director, Institute for Advanced Study, 812-855-1513.