Wednesday, January 26, 2005

IPJ Speaker Series presents

Is Disarmament Plausible, Possible, or Simply Dead?

7:00pm
IPJ Theatre

Panel discussion will feature Dr. Kathleen Sullivan, Mr. Henning Soegaard, and Ms. Sarah Martin.

Kathleen Sullivan , Ph.D., is the coordinator of the Nuclear Weapons Education and Action Project of Educators for Social Responsibility, and is one of the leading advocates of nuclear awareness among New York City's high school youth.  She is a consultant to the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs in New York, as well as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna.  From 2001 to 2002 she served as an NGO consultant to the United Nations Study on Disarmament and Non Proliferation Education.

Henning Soegaard, a Norwegian national, is a Political Affairs Officer and Deputy Chief of the Regional Disarmament Branch of the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs (DDA), which promotes and supports the implementation, at regional and sub-regional levels, of disarmament and arms control norms. He is a UN Political Adviser on landmines and was a political advisor on security policy related matters in Europe and Russia, in particular the EU, NATO and the Balkans.

Sarah Martin is an advocate for Refugees International (RI) with a central focus in gender, disarmament, and peacekeeping issues.  As an RI advocate Sarah works extensively in West Africa on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programs with child soldiers and female combatants.

For more information on this event please contact the IPJ at 619.260.7509 or ipj@sandiego.edu