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Renowned Political Scientist Francis Fukuyama at MIIS for Spring Colloquium

Friday April 18th 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Irvine Auditorium, McCone Building, Monterey Institute Campus

World Renowned Political Scientist Francis Fukuyama will Offer a Guest Lecture
on April 18 as part of the 2014 Spring Colloquium. The Topic:
Economic Diplomacy and Global Governance in a Multi-Polar World

What is Governance in a G-Zero World?
What is economic ‘hard’ power? Does it work? When and How?
Is ‘soft power’ different in a world dominated by economic interests?
Can cooperation emerge from economic competition?
The growing impact of Non-State Actors

Fukuyama is best known for the international sensation caused when he published an essay called “The End of History?” which later led to his book, “The End of History and the Last Man.” He ignited a global debate with his revolutionary thesis, that the Cold War marked an endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy would be the final form of human government. He later published “Trust: Social Virtues and Creation of Prosperity” which modified his earlier thesis to include that culture cannot be fully separated from economics. Fukuyama has immense global recognition for his theories on democracy, development and economics. Click here to view full bio.

Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), resident in FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on questions concerning democratization and international political economy. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent books are America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, and Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap between Latin America and the United States. His latest book,The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution was published in April 2011.

2013 Annual Conference – Maneuvering the Maze: Understanding Justice in Conflicts

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The Center for Conflict Studies (CCS) will host the 2013 Annual Conference, Maneuvering the Maze: Understanding Justice in Conflicts. The Conference will take place November 14th through 16th at the Monterey Marriott Hotel. This illuminating event seeks to explore the many notions of justice, the importance and role of justice in conflict and peace, the various approaches to justice, and the key players involved in providing, seeking and receiving justice.

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CCS extends a special welcome to the eMIISsaries to attend the keynote speech by renowned guest Dianne Barker Harrold. Dianne served as the first female Native American District Attorney in the State of Oklahoma and is currently the attorney for the Tribal Council of the Cherokee Nation. In addition, she is an independent consultant for the US Department of Justice, the Office of Violence Against Women, the American Indian Resource Center, and the National Institute of Justice. Read her full bio online. The Keynote will be delivered Thursday November 14th, at 6pm, at the Monterey Marriott Hotel. Register to attend the Keynote Speech with eventbrite.

Marine Policy Speaker Series

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Tuesday November 5th, palaureefs 6:00 – 7:30pm
McGowan 102
Monterey Institute of International Studies

Join the MIIS community Tuesday, November 5^thto learn about scaling up coral reef conservation efforts in Micronesia. Guest speaker Chris LaFranchi is the director of OneReef, a Santa Cruz-based organization connecting local Micronesian communities with coral reef investors to reverse coral reef decline across the region. Over 500 million people directly depend on healthy reefs, and OneReef brings together diverse stakeholders in the Pacific Island region to address over-fishing, pollution, climate change, and reef degradation. Read a recent Bloomberg piece on OneReef’s work in Palau.

Dr. Aleksei Vsevolodovich Malashenko

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Thursday November 7, 12:15 pm – Irvine Auditorium

Monterey Institute of International Studies

Dr. Aleksei Malashenko is the co-chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Religion, Society, and Security Program.

Dr. Malashenko also taught at the Higher School of Economics from 2007 to 2008 and was a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations from 2000 to 2006. From 1976 to 1982 and again from 1986 to 2001, Malashenko worked at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences as a research fellow, head of the Islamic Department, and finally as senior associate. In 1990, he was also a visiting professor at Colgate University in New York. From 1982 to 1986, he was editor of the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism.

Dr. Malashenko is a professor of political science as well as a member of the RIA Novosti advisory council. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Central Asia and the Caucasus and ActaEurasica and the newsletter Russia and the Muslim World and is a board member of the International Federation for Peace and Conciliation.

Dr. Malashenko is the author and editor of about twenty books in Russian, English, French, and Arabic, including: Islam in Central Asia (Garnet Publishing, 1994), Russia’s Restless Frontier (with Dmitri Trenin; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004), The Islamic Alternative and the Islamist Project (Carnegie Moscow Center and Ves Mir, 2006), Russia and Islam (Carnegie Moscow Center and ROSSPEN, 2007), and My Islam (ROSSPEN, 2010).

Dianne Barker Harrold

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dianne_barker_harrold_07302013_005 The Monterey Institute’s Center for Conflict Studies (CCS) is excited to announce that Dianne Barker Harrold will be the keynote speaker for November’s conference on Understanding Justice in Conflicts. Harrold has practiced law for 26 years, mostly in Indian Country in Oklahoma. She served as tribal judge for thirteen Indian tribes in Oklahoma and as the first female Native American District Attorney in the state of Oklahoma, among numerous other positions. She is currently the attorney for the Tribal Council of the Cherokee Nation and the Resource Delivery Coordinator for Unified Solutions Tribal Community Development Group, Inc., in Tempe, Arizona.

Harrold is one of the founders of Oklahoma’s Help-In-Crisis domestic violence shelter, which for 33 years has served victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault. Her tireless advocacy for battered women and victims of crime has earned her a number of prestigious awards and titles. She is currently the Native American/Victim Representative for the State Victims of Crime Assistance (VOCA) Board for Oklahoma.

An enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Harrold is also an independent consultant and frequently speaks around the country, training tribal prosecutors and law enforcement, victims’ advocates, child welfare workers, and service providers in the areas of child abuse, victim advocacy, domestic violence, sexual assault, and other related topics. In April of this year, United States Attorney General Eric Holder presented Harrold with the 2013 National Crime Victim Service Award for her long-term work with crime victims.

CCS looks forward to welcoming Harrold at the conference and learning from her incredible body of work, and extends a warm invitation to all eMIISsaries to join.

Marine Policy Speaker Series

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We extend a special invitation to the eMIISsaries to attend the next installment in the Marine Policy Speaker Series, Can you hear me now? The Use of Passive Acoustic Methods for Monitoring and Mitigation of Marine Mammal Populations

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 6 – 7:30pm
McGowan Building, MG102

Join the Monterey Institute’s Center for the Blue Economy for a talk by Julie Oswald (Bio-Waves Inc.): Can you hear me now? The Use of Passive Acoustic Methods for Monitoring and Mitigation of Marine Mammal Populations.