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POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY:
http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/events/hamburg_minow.html
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Seminar with Dr. David Hamburg a Visiting Scholar at the AAAS, and Dean Martha Minow of the Harvard Law School, in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Dr. Hamburg’s latest book Give Peace a Chance tells the story of peace achievements through interviews with key figures involved in those processes. He argues that there are six pillars to maintaining peace: prevention education, early action, democracy building, socioeconomic development, human rights, and arms control.
Dr. Hamburg is a visiting scholar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is President Emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, where he served as president from 1982 to 1997. Hamburg has a long history of leadership in the research and innovation in biological and behavioral sciences. He has been a pioneer in prevention of mass violence. He has been a professor at Stanford University and Harvard University, President of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences, and President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He was a member of the United States Defense Policy Board with Secretary of Defense William Perry and co-chair with former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. The Commission published many books and monographs in its five-year life (1994-99), covering diplomatic, political, economic and military aspects of prevention. Distinguished scholars and practitioners contributed on a worldwide basis with Dr. Hamburg providing guidance, integration and utilization.
He was a member of President Clinton’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. Most recently, Dr. Hamburg chaired two parallel committees at the United Nations and European Union on the prevention of genocide – one reporting directly to the UN Secretary-General and the other to Javier Solana, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union.
Dr. Hamburg also has served on the Board of the Stanford University, Rockefeller University, the American Museum of Natural History, the Mount Sinai Medical Center of New York, the Carter Center in Atlanta, the Advisory Board of the Center for Preventive Action of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Advisory Council of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, the Harvard International Advisory Council and was Distinguished Presidential Adviser on International Affairs, National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Today’s Children: Creating a Future for a Generation in Crisis (1992); No More Killing Fields: Preventing Deadly Conflict (2002); and Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development (2004). His most recent book, Preventing Genocide: Practical Steps toward Early Detection and Effective Action was published in spring 2008. An educational documentary based on the book was completed in the spring of 2009 and an updated edition of the book was published in the fall. In 2012, the Foreign Policy Association established the Andrew Carnegie Distinguished Lecture in Honor of David Hamburg on an annual basis. He is a member of the International Council at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Dr. Hamburg has received numerous awards including the Foreign Policy Association’s Medal; the Sarnat International Mental Health Award of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; the John Stearns Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Medicine, New York Academy of Medicine; Leadership in Violence Prevention, United States Institute of Peace; George Brown Award for International Scientific Cooperation, CRDF Global; the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal (its highest award); and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest civilian award of the United States).
Martha Minow is the Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor at Harvard Law School where she has taught since 1981. An expert in human rights with a focus on members of racial and religious minorities and women, children, and persons with disabilities, her scholarship also has addressed private military contractors, management of mass torts, transitional justice, and law, culture, and social change. Her books include In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s Educational Landmark (2010); Partners, Not Rivals, Privatization and the Public Good (2002); Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (1998); Not Only for Myself: Identity Politics sand Law (1997); and Making all the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law (1990). Following the nomination by President Obama and confirmation by the Senate, she serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of the Legal Services Corporation and co-chair of its Pro Bono Task Force. She also currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the MacArthur Foundation. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Minow received her law degree at Yale Law School before serving as a law clerk to Judge David Bazelon and Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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