Ed. Note: Here is an opportunity to hear one of America's leading foreign affairs thinkers and doers--he's a former US ambassador to Bosnia and international negotiator--at a nearby venue. I should disclose that I am vice-chair of the Council, but I can assure you that this will be a very interesting, stimulating program. CCB
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PETER GALBRAITH RETURNS TO SPEAK ON IRAQ AFTER THE WAR
For the fifth year Ambassador Peter Galbraith returns to give his annual lecture as part of The Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont lecture series. Dr. Galbraith will speak on the subject, “After Iraq--Cleaning Up After America's Biggest Foreign Policy Mistake,” on Friday October 19, 7:30 PM, on the World Learning/SIT campus, International Center.
Peter Galbraith has been a consultant for corporations in the areas of strategic communications and marketing strategy. He has been in Iraq many times over the last twenty-one years during historic turning points for the country: the Iran-Iraq War, the Kurdish genocide, the 1991 uprising, the immediate aftermath of the 2003 war, and the writing of Iraq's constitutions. He draws on his nearly two decades of involvement in Iraq policy working for the U.S. government to appraise what has occurred and what will happen. He is author of The End of Iraq (2006) which is the definitive account of this war and its ramifications. His forthcoming book is After Iraq: Cleaning Up After America’s Biggest Foreign Policy Mistake. (October 2007)
Dr. Galbraith has served as the first US Ambassador to Croatia where he mediated the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the Croatia War. He is currently Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and principal in a Vermont-based firm specializing in international negotiations. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
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