Public discussion on my Africa book, Washington DC, Sept. 26
I am happy to announce that there will be a public discussion (and book-signing) of my book Amnesty After Atrocity, organized by the InfoShop at the World Bank, next Wednesday, September 26.
It will be in the World Bank's J Building, Auditorium J1-050, at 701, 18th St NW, Washington DC. Chairing the discussion will be Katherine Marshall, a really fascinating dynamo of a woman who was appointed by former World Bank President Jim Wolfensohn to be Vice-President for Ethics, Values, and Religion.
I hope there are some JWN readers in the DC region who would like to come. I would also really appreciate it if you could circulate the announcement of the event to anyone you think would be interested in coming. It's here.
The announcement adds the following details: "Coffee and cookies will be served... (A security pass is not required for this event.)"
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The server wouldn't let me back in to re-edit the post and add the important information that this event runs from Noon through 2 p.m. on 9/26.
Let's hope it'll take the info in the form of a comment, eh?
Helena
Your book is on an important topic and your contribution to forming world opinion will be recognised.
Here is a wildly off topic thought that occurred to me as I was idly scanning through some of the posts
Do you think blogs and their comments provide a primary historical source?
If so what are we doing to preserve them?
In a thousand years time as a PhD student is picking over the ruins of New York and is trying to figure out why the society collapsed so spectacularly and caved in to the Venezuelan invasion, will blogs and their associated comments help?
I wish I could be there to hear you speak about the book. It is great to know your effort to spread ideas of reconciliation through forgiveness are making such an impact. Congratulations again on first rate research!
Since the next item doesn't have a comment facility, I hope it is acceptable to point out here that the door-to-door campaign of the so-called Maoists in Nepal is against the retention of the rotten, scandalous and anti-democratic monarchy in Nepal. The USA, a country founded on rejection of monarchy, is busy trying to foist the disgusting old king back upon the country against the will of the people.
GNN runs and hides. Why? Why do they not denounce the king and his interfering US backers, instead of implicitly labelling the Maoist campaign as "violent", which it clearly is not. Or does GNN have some prior secret knowledge of a provocation and an attack on the Maoists? If so then they are hypocrites and worse: complicit.