Incidentally, we usually have dinner beforehand at Panda North, a Chinese restaurant on Rt. 5 one-half mile north of Exit 3 in Brattleboro. This meeting is at the School for International Training (also known as World Learning). To get there, take Black Mountain Rd. west from Route 5, about half a mile south of the Exit 3 traffic circle.
If you can come, be sure to get there at least 20 miniutes ahead of the program. Galbraith usually attracts an SRO crowd.
AMBASSADOR PETER GALBRAITH:
LAST CHANCE FOR IRAQ: CIVIL WAR, IRAN, AND THE CONSTITUTION
Ambassador Peter Galbraith will address The Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont on Thursday, October 20, at 7:30 PM in the International Center on the World Learning campus in Brattleboro, Vermont on Last Chance for Iraq: Civil War, Iran, and the Constitution.
Galbraith is one America’s leading authorities on Iraq. Working for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1980s, he uncovered and publicized Saddam Hussein’s genocidal campaign against Iraq’s Kurds. In 1988, he led a mission that documented Iraq’s use of chemical weapons, leading the Senate to pass unanimously comprehensive sanctions. Galbraith has made more than a dozen trips to Iraq since Saddam Hussein’s overthrow in 2003, and was a news consultant in Baghdad for ABC news in the chaotic weeks immediately following the regime’s collapse. He is the author of two recent articles in Iraq in the New York Review of Books: "Iraq: Bush's Islamic Republic" (August 2005), http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18150, and "Last Chance for Iraq" (October 2005), http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18297.
Peter W. Galbraith 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. He is married to Tone Bringa, a Norwegian anthropologist, and has three children. He lives in Townshend, Vermont.
The presentation is free and open to the public.