2010 Oct 25 - 6:00pm
2010 Oct 25 - 9:00pm
Interpreting Development, Sovereignty & Global Environmental Governance
With just a month before the resumption of climate change talks in Cancun, join a dynamic panel involving leading representatives of the Global South, together with a Boston-based scholar. They will speak to the opportunities and challenges posed by the UN discussions on Climate Change. The questions include:
- What are the visions and differences between the North and the South in such discussions?
- Is economic development compatible with environmental justice?
- How can national sovereignty issues be addressed in the context of an international environmental governance system?
Join this panel of dynamic experts as they shed light in these crucial issues.
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When President Obama announced in December 2009 that he would escalate the Afghanistan war by sending 30,000 additional troops, he promised the American people that troop withdrawals would start in July 2011. More recently, he said in Lisbon in November 2010 that the war will be turned over to Afghans by the end of 2014. 
PFC Bradley Manning's trial begins in June. As an Army intelligence analyst he released the Collateral Murder video, showing the killing of unarmed civilians and two Reuters journalists by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq.
