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Kissinger Watch #2 - 01



Dallas: HENRY KISSINGER TO SPEAK AT SMU ETHICS CONFERENCE MARCH 27

http://www2.smu.edu/newsinfo/advisories/01260.html Henry Kissinger will be speaking at the SMU conference "Ethical and Moral Dimensions of America's War on Terrorism". Send protest e-mails (e.g. KW #1 & KW #2) to following addresses: mmdicken@mail.smu.edu, Press Contacts maguire_ethics@mail.smu.edu, Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility jhollifi@mail.smu.edu, John G. Tower Center for Political Studies newsinfo@smu.edu

DALLAS (SMU) -- Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will be the featured speaker at a conference, "Ethical and Moral Dimensions of America's War on Terrorism," at SMU from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, in Hughes-Trigg Student Center Theater. The conference is being presented by the SMU Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility and the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies in the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. Although the conference is not open to the general public, media may attend. Media will have an opportunity to hear Kissinger's remarks in three different settings: · 2:45 p.m. Kissinger will hold a news conference in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center, lower level, Promenade Room B. (media should be in place at least 10 minutes early). · 3:15 p.m. Kissinger will appear on a panel with other scholars to discuss the changing nature of American power. · 4:30 p.m. Kissinger and will deliver the keynote address in which he is expected to talk about national security in the wake of Sept. 11. Also appearing at the conference will be five leading scholars in the area of ethics and international relations: Joseph S. Nye, dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Stephen Krasner, Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations at Stanford University; J. Bryan Hehir, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA; Albert Pierce, director of the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy; and Charles E. Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values at SMU. The following is the schedule for the day: · 1 p.m. "Ethics and America's War on Terrorism" with panelists Curran and Pierce. Robin Lovin, Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at SMU and dean of the Perkins School of Theology, will moderate. · 2 p.m. "Morality and the Use of Force" with panelists Krasner and Nye. James Hollifield, director of the Tower Center and professor of political science at SMU, will moderate. · 3:15 p.m. "American Power and Its Uses" with panelists Hehir, Kissinger, Krasner and Nye. Lee Cullum, columnist with The Dallas Morning News, will moderate. · 4:30 p.m. Keynote address by Kissinger. In the history of American diplomacy, Kissinger is considered one of the nation's most influential statesmen, having served Presidents Nixon and Ford as National Security Advisor from 1969 to 1975 and Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977. He was a leading architect of American foreign policy during the era of the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union, Middle East wars and the reestablishment of diplomatic ties between the United States and the People's Republic of China. Originally a supporter of escalating the fighting in Vietnam, Kissinger in 1973 became the key negotiator in the withdrawal of American troops. His efforts at resolving the war won him the 1973 Nobel Prize for Peace, also given to the Vietnamese negotiator, Le Duc Tho. Much of what high-level American diplomats routinely do today can be credited to the skills of Kissinger. He invented the practice of shuttle diplomacy, which he used to disengage the combatants in the Israeli-Arab War of 1973. In addition, he was responsible for the resumption of diplomatic relations between Egypt and the United States, severed since 1967.

OVERVIEW - Kissinger Watch #2

1.		Dallas: HENRY KISSINGER TO SPEAK AT SMU ETHICS CONFERENCE MARCH 27

2.		London: PROTESTS PLANNED AGAINST KISSINGER'S VISIT TO LONDON IN APRIL

3.		Sao Paolo: KISSINGER CANCELS VISIT IN FEAR OF PROTESTS AND POSSIBLE CHARGES

4.		Cork: WAR CRIMES PROTEST AS KISSINGER VISITS CORK

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