Prof. Les Paldy will speak and answer your questions about "Seeking Global Zero: the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons." Les Paldy is a former Marine Officer and Distinguished Service Professor of Technology and Society at Stony Brook where he has taught for 42 years. He represented the United States as a diplomat during the nuclear weapons negotiations with the Soviet Union in Geneva and at UN headquarters. He is a Stony Brook graduate, class of 1962.
Father Roy Bourgeois, Head of the School of the Americas Watch, will speak about "US-Latin American relations: the View from the School of the Americas Watch." Bio: Fr. Bourgeois, born in 1938, holds a degree in geology, has served in the US Navy in Europe and Vietnam and has received the Purple Heart. Ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1972, he spent many years in Latin America. He became an outspoken critic of US foreign policy after four American churchwomen were raped and killed by a death squad of the National Guard of El Salvador. He founded the School of the Americs Watch (SOA Watch) in 1990. He holds a Pax Christi USA Peace Award (1997) and the Thomas Merton Peace and Social Justice Award (2005).
Ambassador Nelson Santos will be discussing "Nation Building, the UN and East Timor".
Professor Michael Schwartz, Sociology, will discuss his latest book on war: "War Without End. The Iraq War in Context."
Bio: Professor Schwartz is a long time Stony Brook faculty and publishes in the areas of politics, global relations, war and peace.
He is the founding director of the Global Studies College.
The GLS Community celebrates the end of the 2008-2009 Academic Year with a Catered Dinner,
Entertainment, and Special Guest Speakers. Invitations will be mailed out in April.