Hutton Honors College

Discussion Supper with Wendy Chamberlin,
Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan and Laos
and Current President of the Middle East Institute

Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 * 6-7:30 p.m. * HHC Building (811 E. Seventh St.) * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Who are our allies, who are our enemies, and how can we make peace in the world? How can we achieve international security and how can we secure the well-being of refugees and others at risk? Wendy Chamberlin has been working on such questions for more than 30 years, serving in the U.S. Foreign Service around the world, including Laos, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan, and Zaire, as well as for major international organizations. Chamberlin was a key figure in brokering Pakistan's cooperation with the U.S. war against terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 during her tenure as ambassador (2001-02). She has also served as Director of Global Affairs and Counter-Terrorism at the National Security Council and Deputy in the Bureau of International Counter-Narcotics and Law Programs. Additionally, Chamberlin has worked for the UN as Deputy High Commissioner for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, where she supervised the $4 billion humanitarian budget. Described as "one of the world's experts on Iraqi refugees," she will be in Indiana next week to participate in the International Interfaith Initiative's conference on "the Confluence of Religion and Politics." Chamberlin has appeared on ABC, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC, NPR, and the Tavis Smiley Show and has been published in the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune. Her awards and honors include the Howard Wilkins Jr. Award for outstanding Deputy Chief of Mission and an honorary doctorate from Northwestern University.

Ambassador Chamberlin was invited to campus by the Student Foreign Policy Initiative, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that seeks to foster a more informed, elevated student discourse on foreign affairs; and the supper is co-sponsored by the Initiative and the Wells Scholars Program.

From 3 to 5:15 p.m. the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 9, Ambassador Chamberlin will deliver a public talk in the Moot Court Room (Room 123) of IU's Maurer School of Law about the role of international law and interfaith diplomacy in finding solutions for the Iraqi refugee crisis and the Obama administration's policies regarding Pakistan. Time will be reserved after the talk for Q&A. The discussion, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the International Law Society and the Center for the Study of Global Change.

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