O'Malley Lectures
Lebanon, Isreal, and the Hezbollah (mis)Fit
Tuesday, October 6, Boston Public Library
Wedensday, October 7, Brookline Public Library
Thursday, October 8, New Art Center in Newtonville
Professor O'Malley examines the roots of the Lebanon/Isreal conflict, the role of Hezbollah both as a member of Lebanon's government and as a state within the state, militarily stronger than Lebanon itself. He argues that unless Hezbollah is brought in from the cold, there will be no enduring peace in the Middle East.
Insights to World Peace
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Cape Cod Community College
A Conversation with Jesus Christ
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Boston College
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
John F. Kennedy Library
With the future of America's presence in Iraq increasingly a matter of acute debate between the Republican and Democratic party nominees for president, the question arises: Would the Helsinki Prinicples -- the core of the Helsinki Agreement -- if implemented in their entirely, lay the basis for a stable, peaeful, and secure Iraq, free of foreign presence? And if so, what additional steps are required to assure their successful implementation?
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
6:00 pm Kennedy Library
Padraig O’Malley is director of the Iraq Project, a collaboration among the UMass John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, Tufts Institute of Global Leadership, and Crisis Management Initiative of Helsinki. In September 2007, the Iraq Project convened a much heralded conference of Iraqis in Helsinki, Finland. It began to shape a framework for negotiations. The second round of talks with a far broader and deeper representation has just concluded. Join us to hear O’Malley’s report.
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When Peace Comes Dropping Low
SOME LESSONS FROM
NORTHERN IRELAND
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
After the recent elections in Northern Ireland, a most unlikely partnership became the core of a power-sharing government: Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party is First Minister and Martin McGuiness, vice president of Sinn Féin and once chief of staff of the IRA is Deputy. Such a government signals the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. After close to forty years of violence and bloodshed, what accounts for this extraordinary about-face?
All Has Changed, Changed Utterly
THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER THE
U. S. INVASION
Thursday, May 3, 2007
With the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the always Byzantine politics of the Middle East were thrown into further disarray. The broad band of countries entrapped within the boundaries of conflict has expanded to encompass Israel, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, and possibly Turkey.
The Long March Continues
SOUTH AFRICA, THE
POST-APARTHEID STRUGGLE
Thursday, April 19, 2007
When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990 and the African Nationalist Congress (ANC) unbanned, few would have believed that within four years the Apartheid white government would have negotiated itself peacefully out of power. But that may have been the easy part. South Africa's journey from transition to transformation is far from complete.
THE EVENT WILL LAUNCH O'MALLEY'S NEW BOOK
Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa
Sharing the Peace?
NORTHERN IRELAND, SOUTH AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Are there lessons to be learned from the Northern Ireland and South African transitions to peace after decades of conflict? Might the lessons be applied to the process of peace-making in the Middle East and can the practitioners of division inform the path to peace?
