Centre for the Study of Global Governance public lecture
Date: Wednesday 11 February 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Lakhdar Brahimi
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
Lakhdar Brahimi, with an extensive career in peace-building, reflects on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with Mary Kaldor.
Lakhdar Brahimi was foreign minister of Algeria (1991-93) and prior to that ambassador to the UK (1971-79). He mediated the end of the Civil War in Lebanon (1988-91) and headed UN Missions in South Africa, Haiti, Afghanistan and Iraq. Lakhdar Brahimi is now a member of "The Elders", a group created at the initiative of Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel and chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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