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Friday August 29, 2008 Events Calendar Archive |
UND Law School Speaker Series features John Washburn Lecture"Genocide and Terrorism Attacked - The International Criminal Court at Work: 
John Washburn, Convener of the American Non-governmental Organizations Coalition of the International Criminal Court (AMICC), will present a lecture entitled “Genocide and Terrorism Attacked - The International Criminal Court at Work: Darfur, Congo, and Uganda” on Tuesday, March 28, at 4:15 pm. in the Baker Courtroom at the UND School of Law. Washburn’s talk is part of the UND Law School speaker series and is free and open to the public. Washburn was a director in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations between January 1988 and April 1993, and thereafter served as a director in the Department of Political Affairs at the United Nations until March 1994. He was a member of the Foreign Service of the United States from 1963 to 1987. His last assignment at the State Department was membership on the Policy Planning Staff responsible for international organizations and multilateral affairs. Washburn held a variety of assignments in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, each covering different aspects of the work of international organizations and a variety of multilateral issues. He also conceived, helped to establish and was Deputy Director of an office in that Bureau to further the coordination of American bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. During his service in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, he was a member of United States delegations to various sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and Committee for Programme and Coordination. He was Night Shift Chairman of the Iran Hostage Task Force in 1979. Washburn’s areas of expertise include: |
