Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 6, 2000

Volume 29, Number 5

George Mitchell

Peace accord is topic of talk by George Mitchell

Former Senator George Mitchell, who chaired the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland, will discuss that historic undertaking on Tuesday, Oct. 10, as a guest of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS).

Mitchell's talk, the annual George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies, will take place at
4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

The senator was originally scheduled to speak in February but had to postpone. While at Yale he will also receive an award from Yale's Department of Athletics, which has designated him as the Robert J.H. Kiphuth Fellow for 2000.

Under Mitchell's leadership, the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and the political parties of Northern Ireland, agreed to an historic accord. The present four-party Cabinet was formed under terms of the 1998 Good Friday accord.

Mitchell served in the U.S. Senate for 14 year and was the Senate Majority Leader for six years. For six consecutive years he was voted "the most respected member" of the Senate.

After retiring from the Senate in 1995, Mitchell joined the Washington, D.C. law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand. He served as chair of the special commission investigating allegations of impropriety in the bidding process for the Olympic Games and was chair of the International Crisis Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention of crises in international affairs. President Clinton named Mitchell special adviser for Irish affairs.

Mitchell recently served on the Major League Baseball Commissioner's Blue Ribbon Panel on Baseball Economics, along with President Richard C. Levin, Paul A. Volker, former chair of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, and syndicated columnist George F. Will.

George Herbert Walker III established the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in 1986 in memory of his father, a distinguished graduate of the Yale Class of 1927. The fund supports lectures in international studies at YCIAS.

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