Colin Powell Center Events
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Kofi Annan: Insights into a Challenging Decade
A SPECIAL MORNING LECTURE
March 19, 2012
11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Doors open at 10 a.m.
Shepard Hall
City college
Convent Ave. at 138th
New York, NY 10031
Nobel Laureate Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, will address the challenges of his decade of leadership during this special morning lecture.
Annan's distinguished appearance at City College on March 19 celebrates the official publication of Annan's collected public and declassified papers. The collection, a five-volume set from Lynne Rienner Publishers, is the culmination of a six-year joint project of CCNY and Yale University. Professor Jean Krasno, a fellow of the Colin Powell Center, led the project and is its principal investigator.
A Pivotal Role
The Kofi Annan collection contributes an organized historic record of selected official papers of Secretary-General Annan, who served at the head of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006, and makes the breadth and depth of his work more accessible to scholars, students, and policy makers. It also illuminates the pivotal role of the Secretary-General in guiding dispute settlements and determining whether they prevent violence or further deter escalation of a conflict.
Focusing the World's Attention
Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat, received the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing a global AIDS fund for developing countries. His papers, which comprise more than 750,000 individual pages, spotlight his leadership in focusing the world’s attention on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, his evolving and increasingly concrete anti-poverty efforts, and his work to confront human-rights issues in Africa. They also demonstrate his role as a peacemaker. "Kofi Annan was constantly bringing parties together, trying to resolve their differences and often bringing the issues to the Security Council,” says Professor Krasno, a distinguished fellow of International Security Studies at Yale University and the Colin Powell Center’s initiative director for multilateral diplomacy and international organizations. “He never gave up, even when situations looked impossible.”
Free and open to the public
Doors open at 10 a.m.
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About Colin Powell Center Events
The Center hosts conferences and special events to draw together community groups and other key audiences to advance solutions on today's pressing issues. In particular, events focus on the Center's five "outcome" areas: international development and global security, education, the environment, community and economic development, and health. |
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