Human Rights and Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula

Details: Wednesday, February 25 , 2015 | 12:00 PM

About the Speaker Title: Human Rights and Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula
About the Speaker: 2015-02-25 12:00:00
Event Name: $10 Members | $20 Guests | Explorer and YPN Members are FREE but must register
Event Time: ../tickets/2015/2015_02_25__human-rights__ticket.html
Event Content: itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/human-rights-diplomacy-on/id210903888?i=336348428&mt=2
Event Link: Professor Victor Cha (Ph.D. Columbia, MA Oxford, BA Columbia) is director of Asian Studies and holds the D.S. Song Chair in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In 2009, he was named as Senior Adviser and the inaugural holder of the new Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He left the White House in May 2007 after serving since 2004 as Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. At the White House, he was responsible primarily for Japan, the Korean peninsula, Australia/New Zealand and Pacific Island nation affairs. Dr. Cha was also the Deputy Head of Delegation for the United States at the Six Party Talks in Beijing, and received two Outstanding Service commendations during his tenure at the NSC.  He is the author of five books: 1) Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (Stanford University Press) (winner of the 2000 Ohira Book Prize), 2) Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (Columbia University Press, 2004 with Dave Kang), 3) Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia (Columbia, 2009); 4) The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (HarperCollins, 2012); and 5) Powerplay: Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia (Princeton University Press, forthcoming). He has written articles on international relations and East Asia in journals including Foreign Affairs, International Security, Political Science Quarterly, Survival, International Studies Quarterly, and Asian Survey. Professor Cha is a former John M. Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard University, two-time Fulbright Scholar, and Hoover National Fellow, CISAC Fellow, and William J. Perry Fellow at Stanford University. He holds Georgetown’s Dean’s Award for teaching in 2010 and the Distinguished Research Award for 2011.  He serves as an independent consultant, and has testified before Congress on Asian security issues. He has been a guest analyst for various media including CNN, ABC Nightline, NBC Today Show, CBS Morning Show, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and National Public Radio. He has a cameo role (as himself) in the upcoming action film “Red Dawn” (Contrafilm, MGM, Vincent Newman Entertainment) scheduled for release in November 2012. His newest book, The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (released April 2012 by HarperCollins Ecco), was selected by Foreign Affairs as a best book of 2012 on the Asia-Pacific.   Lindsay Lloyd is the Program Director at Freedom Collection, and is responsible for setting a vision for and managing the content of the Freedom Collection, overseeing the Freedom Collection website, building the physical archive, and identifying audiences and developing strategies to reach those audiences.  Lindsay comes from the International Republican Institute (IRI), where he served for 16 years, most recently as Senior Advisor for Policy. Previously, he was IRI’s Regional Director for Europe and Co-Director of the Regional Program for Central and Eastern Europe, which is based in Bratislava, Slovakia. At IRI, Lindsay organized and delivered numerous trainings in Slovakia, Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey. He also conducted assessment missions to Argentina, Azerbaijan, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Paraguay, Slovenia and Vietnam and worked on get-out-the-vote campaigns for the 1997 Slovak referendum and parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, Slovakia and Slovenia. He has observed 15 elections and overseen polling and political consultation projects in Romania and Bulgaria. After graduating from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Lindsay spent 12 years working in American politics. He worked for several members of the U.S. House of Representatives, as political director for a political action committee, and for Jack Kemp’s 1988 presidential campaign.
Custom HTML field content: About the Speakers
Third Tab: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2015-02-25_HumanRightsAndDiplomacyOnTheKoreanPeninsulaWithVictorChaAndLindsayLloyd.mp3
Third Tab Title: Join The Korea Society
Custom HTML field 3 title: <img width="237" height="102" alt="JoinTKS" src="images/photos/JoinTKS.jpg" /> Become a Member • <a style="color: #045fb4;" href="index.php? option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=271&Itemid=432" target="_blank">Individuals</a> • <a style="color: #045fb4;" href="index.php? option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=186&Itemid=440" target="_blank">Corporations</a>
Registration Form: Studio Korea @ The Korea Society
Summit External URL: <img src="images/icons/2013/studio_korea-logo.jpg" alt="studio korea-logo" height="142" width="238" /> Be part of a live audience for special recording sessions. Delve into the day’s headlines, dialogue with special guests from policy, finance, research, academe, international organizations, and the media, and determine new trends, priorities, and approaches in and toward East Asia and the Korean Peninsula.

2015 02 25 human-rights icon

Marking a year since the release of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) Report on North Korea, Dr. Victor Cha, Senior Advisor and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Director of Asian Studies, Georgetown University, speaks to the significance of the report and steps forward. Dr. Cha will be joined by Lindsay Lloyd, Program Director at the Bush Institute, in conversation with The Korea Society SVP Dr. Stephen Noerper.

Human Rights and Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula

with

Victor Cha, Senior Advisor and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Director of Asian Studies, Georgetown University

Lindsay Lloyd, Program Director, Freedom Collection, George W. Bush Institute

In conversation with Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President, The Korea Society

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 | 12 PM

11:30 AM | Registration & Light Fare

12:00 PM | Discussion

$10 Members | $20 Guests

~Explorer/YPN and above attend this program for FREE with Registration~

If you have any questions, please contact Nikita Desai or (212) 759-7525, ext. 355.

Of Interest:

Light Through the Darkness, by Amanda Schnetzer and Victor Cha

The Freedom Collection Interviews

The UN Commission of Inquiry Report on North Korea

The Washington Post: North Korea’s Human Rights Catastrophe