Sunday, September 15, 2013, 3:00 pm

Title Forthcoming

Don Kraus,
Chief Executive Officer, GlobalSolutions.org

Don Kraus is the President and Chief Executive Officer of GlobalSolutions.org and its political arm, the Global Solutions Action Network. GlobalSolutions.org is a groundbreaking online movement promoting a responsible and cooperative role for the United States in the world.

Kraus has served as the Executive Director of the Campaign for United Nations Reform and its affiliated political action committee, CUNR PAC. An expert in building U.S. political support for the U.N. and other international institutions, Don brings his considerable enthusiasm and drive to advocating for responsible global policies.

Don has co-chaired three NGO working groups: the Partnership for Effective Peacekeeping (PEP), the Washington Working Group on the International Criminal Court (WICC), and the CEDAW (women's rights treaty) task force. He has also played a lead role in the Law of the Sea Working Group, a broad group of organizations and trade associations focused on U.S. ratification of the convention.

Sunday, October 20, 2013, 3:00 pm (tentative date)

Title Forthcoming

Rev. Dr. William F. Schulz,
President and CEO of the
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

William F. Schulz is the President and CEO of the UUSC, a nonsectarian organization that advances human rights and social justice in the United States and around the world. Previously, he served for 12 years as executive director of Amnesty International USA. An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, Schulz is a former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

He has appeared frequently on radio and television news and analysis shows and is the author or contributing editor of several books, including In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All; Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights; The Phenomenon of Torture; and The Future of Human Rights: US Policy for a New Era.

The New York Review of Books said in June 2002, "William Schulz has done more than anyone in the American human rights movement to make human rights issues known in the United States."

Sunday, November 17, 2013, 3:00 pm (tentative date)

Title Forthcoming

John Norton Moore,
Walter L. Brown Professor of Law
Director, Center for National Security Law
Director, Center for Oceans Law and Policy
University of Virginia School of Law

John Norton Moore, who joined the faculty in 1966, is an authority on international law, national security law and the law of the sea. Moore taught the first course in the country on national security law and conceived and co-authored the first casebook on the subject. From 1991-93, during the Gulf War and its aftermath, Moore was the principal legal adviser to the Ambassador of Kuwait to the United States and to the Kuwait delegation to the U.N. Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission.

From 1985 to 1991, he chaired the board of directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace, one of six presidential appointments he has held. From 1973 to 1976, he was chair of the National Security Council Interagency Task Force on the Law of the Sea and ambassador and deputy special representative of the president to the law of the sea conference. Previously he served as the counselor on international law to the State Department. With the deputy attorney general of the United States, he was co-chair in March 1990 of the U.S.-USSR talks in Moscow and Leningrad on the rule of law. He has been a frequent witness before congressional committees on maritime policy, legal aspects of foreign policy, national security, war and treaty powers, and democracy and human rights. He has been a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution.