The challenges that nations face as they recover from war, both internal and external, is the focus of a symposium being held Thursday-Friday, Feb. 27-28, at the Law School, 127 Wall St.
The event, titled "Global Interests and Local Needs: Striking a Balance in Post-Conflict States," is the 2003 Robert L. Bernstein Symposium. It is sponsored by the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights and the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal.
"Post-conflict states risk falling into a spiral of abuses and becoming dependent on outside forces to maintain a more peaceful status quo," write the organizers. "Human rights, development, local empowerment and constitutionalism must each be an essential component in any plan to put a failed state on the right track. Each also raises a difficult question: When it comes to nation-building, is there a conflict between global interests and local needs?"
The symposium will open at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday with a panel discussion titled "Reconstruction of Post-Conflict States: An Exchange of Views."
On Friday, representatives from international, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations will appraise their roles in past reconstruction efforts in a panel titled "The Players" at 9 a.m. There will also be two panels focusing on the key obstacles and strategies for rebuilding post-conflict nations in Africa (10:45 a.m.) and in the Balkans (2:15 p.m.) Another panel, at
The symposium will also include a keynote address at 5:45 p.m. and a "Human Rights Workshop" at 12:30 p.m. in which the students currently holding Robert L. Bernstein Fellowships in International Human Rights will discuss their work.
The latter event will take place in the faculty lounge of the Law School. All other events will take place in Rm. 127. The symposium is free and open to the public.
The Robert L. Bernstein Fellowships in International Human Rights were established in 1997 to honor Robert Bernstein, the former chair, president and CEO of Random House, Inc. and the founding chair of Human Rights Watch. The fellowships provide financial support to allow two Law School graduates to pursue full-time international human rights work for one year.
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4 p.m., will look at whether multilateral efforts at promoting democracy in nations undergoing reconstruction have worked well in the past and their possibility of success in Afghanistan.
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