Antonia Chayes Professor Chayes is a visiting professor of international politics and law at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is senior advisor and vice chair of Conflict Management Group; a founding member of ENDISPUTE; and chair of the Project on Compliance and International Conflict Management at the Program on Negotiation. She is also an adjunct lecturer at The J.F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Professor Chayes is a former member of the Board of Directors of United Technologies Corporation (1981-2002). She was Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Installations and Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force from 1977 to 1981, and she has served on several federal commissions, including the Vice President's White House Aviation Safety and Security Commission and the Commission on Roles and Missions of the United States Armed Forces. She is the coauthor of Planning for Intervention: International Cooperation in Conflict Management and The New Sovereignty: Compliance with International Regulating Agreements and the coeditor of Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity After Violent Ethnic Conflict and Preventing Conflict in the Post-Communist World: Mobilizing International and Regional Organizations.
Tony P. Hall Three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Ambassador Tony P. Hall is one of the leading advocates for hunger relief programs and improving international human rights conditions in the world. As the chief of the U.S. Mission to the U.N. Agencies in Rome, the World Food Program (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Ambassador Hall is responsible for putting into action Americas commitment to alleviate hunger and build hope in the world. Prior to entering the diplomatic corps, Mr. Hall of Dayton, Ohio, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented the people of the Third District of Ohio for almost twenty-four years. In Congress, he was the chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger and the Democratic Caucus Task Force on Hunger. He is also the founder and was chairman of the Congressional Hunger Center, a non-governmental organization dedicated to fighting hunger by developing leaders. Ambassador Hall has spent time in more than 110 countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. He was the first Member of Congress to visit Ethiopia during the great famine of 1984-5. He has visited North Korea six times since 1995 and was one of the first Western officials to see the famine outside of the capital, Pyongyang. In 2000, he became the first Member of Congress to visit Iraq in order to investigate the humanitarian situation.
Kishore Mahbubani A student of philosophy and history, Kishore Mahbubani has published extensively in leading journals and newspapers overseas (including Foreign Affairs, the National Interest, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal). He has also addressed many major international conferences, including Davos, Williamsburg, Ditchley and the IISS meeting. By profession, Mr. Mahbubani is a civil servant and career diplomat who has been with the Singapore Foreign Service since 1971. His overseas postings have included Cambodia (where he served during the war, in 1973-74), Malaysia, the United States and the United Nations. He is now serving his second stint as Singapore's Ambassador to the United Nations, where he was President of the Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002 when Singapore was serving on the UN Security Council. He was previously Permanent Secretary (Policy) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was the first dean of the Civil Service College in Singapore. He has served on the boards of several leading institutes and think tanks in Singapore, including the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, the Institute of Policy Studies, the Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellowship and the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies. Amb. Mahbubani is the author of Can Asians Think?, and he has been described by The Economist as "an Asian Toynbee," preoccupied with the rise and fall of civilizations and by The Washington Post as "a Max Weber of the new Confucian ethic."
General William Nash Gen. Nash is the John W. Vessey Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Major General William L. Nash, USA (Ret.) has extensive experience in peacekeeping operations, both as a military commander in Bosnia and as a civilian administrator for the United Nations in Kosovo. He served in the Army for 34 years, and is a veteran of Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm in Iraq. Since his retirement in 1998, Nash has been a Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Director of Civil-Military Programs at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. Nash has been the Director of the Council's Center for Preventive Action since April 2001. In April 2002, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appointed Nash to the UN fact-finding team to develop accurate information regarding events in the Jenin refugee camp. Nash is a Military Consultant for ABC News. Gen. Nash was the project director for Balkans 2010, and he is the author of The Laws of War: A Military View and Can Soldiers be Peacekeepers and Warriors?
Andrew Natsios Andrew Natsios served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) the lead US government agency doing international economic development and humanitarian assistance from 2001 to 2006. During this period he managed USAID's reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan which totaled more than $14 billion over four years. President Bush has also appointed him Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance and Special Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sudan. Natsios has served previously at USAID, first as director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance from 1989 to 1991 and then as assistant administrator for the Bureau for Food and Humanitarian Assistance (now the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance) from 1991 to 1993. Since January 2006, Andrew S. Natsios has served on the faculty of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Joseph Nye Jr. Dr. Joseph Nye Jr.is the Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Previously, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, winning two Distinguished Service medals, and the chair of the National Intelligence Council. Dr. Nye joined the Harvard faculty in 1964, serving as director of the Center for International Affairs and associate dean of Arts and Sciences. From 1977-1979, Dr. Nye was Deputy to the Undersecretary of State for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology and chaired the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. His publications include Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics ; The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone; Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History; and Power in the Global Information Age: From Realism to Globalization. He is the coauthor of Power and Interdependence and Democracy.Com: Governance in a Networked World; the editor of For the People: Can We Fix Public Service?; and the coeditor of Governance in a Globalizing World.
Jonathan Schell Since 1998, Jonathan Schell has been the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute, where he is now based, and the Peace and Disarmament Correspondent for The Nation magazine. He is also currently a visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School and a Fellow at Yale's Center for the Study of Globalization. Mr. Schell was a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine from 1967 until 1987. He was the principle writer of the magazine's Notes and Comments. His reflective work on the nuclear question, The Fate of the Earth, became a best-seller and was hailed by The New York Times as "an event of profound historical moment." It received the Los Angeles Times book prize, among other awards, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Critics Award. Mr. Schell's other books are The Village of Ben Suc, The Military Half, The Time of Illusion, The Abolition, History in the Sherman Park, The Real War, Observing the Nixon Years, The Gift of Time, The Unfinished Twentieth Century, and The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People. He received the Lannan Award for Literary Non-fiction in 2000. From 1990 until 1996, Schell was a columnist at Newsday and New York Newsday. He has taught at Emory University, New York University, Princeton University, and Wesleyan University, where he was a Distinguished Visiting Writer from 1997 to 2002. In 1987, he was a fellow at the Institute of Politics and in 2002 a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
Pierre Olov Schori Pierre Olov Schori is the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations and the chair of the United Nations Committee for Parliamentarians for Global Action. He is also chair of the Olof Palme Memorial Fund. Amb. Schori has served as the chair of the Swedish Institute in Alexandria, Egypt; as a member of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development (The Sanford Commission); and as head of the European Union Election Observation Mission in Zimbabwe in 2000 and 2002. Within the Swedish Government, he has been a foreign policy adviser in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Olof Palme, Permanent Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Minister for International Development Cooperation, Deputy Foreign Minister for Cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe, and Minister for International Development Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy. Amb. Schori has also served as a member of European Parliament. He is the author of The Impossible Neutrality; Olof Palme: Reformer without Borders; and Can the United Nations Manage the New Era?
Sir Brian Urquhart Sir Brian Urquhart has led an extraordinary life, much of which has been spent in and around the United Nations system. After serving in the British army and military intelligence during World War II in North Africa and Europe, he became Personal Assistant to Gladwyn Jebb and Executive Secretary to the Preparatory Commission, which established the United Nations in London from 1945 to 1946. Since 1946, Sir Brian Urquhart's professional life has been, in many respects, a history of the UN itself. He was personal assistant to the first Secretary-General (Trygve Lie) and subsequently served in various capacities under Ralph Bunche between 1954 and 1971. Over this period, Sir Brian Urquhart was centrally involved in the conferences on peaceful uses of atomic energy, the Congo crisis in the early 1960s, and peacekeeping in Cyprus, Kashmir, and the Middle East. In the period after 1972, Brian Urquhart was one of the principal political advisors of the Secretary-General and served as the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, working on Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, and Namibia, among others. With his early experience on the ground in the Middle East and the Congo, and his twelve years as Under Secretary-General, he is widely regarded as the pioneer of the modern concept of international peace-keeping. He retired from the United Nations Secretariat in 1986. From 1986 to 1996 he was a scholar-in-residence in the International Affairs program of The Ford Foundation. He is the author of Hammarskjold, Ralph Bunche: An American Life, Decolonization and World Peace, A World in Need of Leadership: Tomorrow's United Nations, and A Life in Peace and War. He is the coauthor of Military-Civilian Interactions: Intervening in Humanitarian Crises and Mission With UNIFIL: An African Soldier's Reflections.
