Naomi Chazan, professor of political science and African studies and director of theSchoolofGovernmentand Society at the Academic College of Tel Aviv, will give three lectures at the University of Notre Dame this month.
She will speak onCan the World Afford to Abandon Africa?at4 p.m.Oct. 10 (Tuesday) in the auditorium of theHesburghCenterfor International Studies.
A lecture titledOptions for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace: Thinking Out of the Boxwill be delivered at8 p.m.Oct. 11 (Wednesday) in the auditorium of McKenna Hall
Her final talk,What Women Bring to Peace: A Comparative Look at the Role of Women in Conflict Resolution Today,will be at4 p.m.Oct. 12 (Thursday) in theHesburghCenterauditorium.
Chazan was among the speakers at last years Notre Dame Forum on internationalreligious issues.A native ofJerusalem, she is a former deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset, in which she served three terms, from 1992 to 2003, as a representative of the Meretz party.A proponent of Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives, she has founded and serves on the board of a variety of human rights, women’s rights, and peace organizations and has held visiting professorships atHarvardUniversityand the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is author or editor of eight books on comparative politics, the Arab-Israel conflict and women in politics. She received the Freedom and Human Rights Prize from the Foundation for Freedom and Human Rights inSwitzerlandin 2005.
The lectures, which are free and open to the public, are sponsored by Notre Dames Holocaust Project and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
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