“A Look at International Crime”

Mr. Robert Fahlman  - “Out From the Shadows…Canada’s Underworld”

Mr. Hugo Leal-Neri – “Mexico’s Drug War: Militarization of Policing, the U.S. Government’s Merida Initiative and Respect for Human Rights”

Thursday, April 1 ~ 6:30 – 8:30 ~ ENG 103

The International Issues Discussion series presents:

Fatal Infections: The Next Apocalypse?

A lecture by Dr. Nigel Brown

Thursday, January 7, 2010

6:30 – 8:30pm, ENG 102

Dr. Brown is a Long Term Veterinary Expert with decades of experience working with animal diseases. He is currently working with the EU-Mongolia Animal Health and Livestock Marketing Project.

“The US and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace”

Wed., December 2, 2009 ~ 6:00 – 8:00pm ~ ENG 103

Robert Malley has been Director of the International Crisis Group’s Middle East and North Africa Program since January 2002.   Prior to that, he was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Until January 2001, Mr. Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. In this capacity, he served as a principal advisor to the President and the National Security Advisor at the White House on the Middle East peace process.

“Will There Ever Be Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians?”

Thurs., November 19, 2009 ~ 6:00 – 8:00pm ~ ENG 103

Dr. Yoram Peri is the Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies, and Director of the new Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, the University of Maryland, College Park.Prof. Peri is a former political advisor to the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and former Editor-in-chief of the Israeli daily, Davar. He founded and served as head the Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society in Tel Aviv University, were he was a professor of Political Sociology and Communication from 2001 to 2009.