The Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Steering Committee (EACFAC) is
proud to announce this year's Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer
Seminar will be April 28-May 2, 2008, 1-4 P.M., and will focus on the
ethical responsibilities of America¹s role as sole superpower in working for
international peace.
This year's visiting scholar is Omar M. Kader, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board,
Planning and Learning Technologies (Pal-Tech) Inc.
<
http://www.pal-tech.com/>. Dr. Kader was born in Provo, Utah to Palestinian
immigrants who farmed in Utah County from 1921 to the 1960s. He earned a
Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in International Relations.
He worked at Brigham Young University from 1975 to 1983. In 1983 he accepted
a position as Executive Director of Middle East Charity and moved his family
to Washington DC. He later assumed the leadership of the national
Arab-American civil rights organization, The Arab-American
Anti-Discrimination Committee. Pal-Tech works with five US Government
agencies with a primary focus on international development and technology.
His firm currently works for the Department of State, the United States
Agency for International Development (in Palestine and Egypt), the
Department of Health and Human Services (Head Start Bureau), the Department
of Labor, (Caribbean Islands) and the Department of Education. He has a
formal working relationship with the World Trade Organization/International
Trade Center assisting Middle East governments in developing standards for
entry into the WTO. He is an official international election monitor and
observer and has covered the elections in Morocco, Yemen and Palestine,
where he was part of the Carter Center team for the first ever election of a
Parliament and a President.
The title of the seminar is "America¹s Strategic Choices and Challenges in a
Changing Global Arena." The purpose of this seminar is to evaluate America¹s
global role as sole superpower. In that role we have the power to act
unilaterally as we did in Iraq or lead the world in peace making as we have
tried in the Arab-Israeli conflict. In both cases we have not experienced a
clear outcome that points towards enhancing US national interests. The first
three days of the seminar addresses America¹s global options, actions and
outcomes over the last seven years. Participants will discuss how those
actions have impacted on our declining status as global leader. On the
fourth day we will review peacemaking in the Middle East over the past three
presidencies. On the fifth day we will discuss options for a new
administration that will take office on January 20, 2009.
Reading materials provided to seminar participants include: Charles W.
Kegley, Jr. and Gregory A. Raymond, After Iraq: The Imperiled American
Imperium (New York, Oxford University Press, 2007); Daniel C. Kurtzer, and
Scott B. Lasensky, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in
the Middle East (Washington, D.C., United States Institute of Peace Press
2008); Thomas R. Pickering, Chester A. Crocker and Casimir A. Yost,
America¹s Role in the World: Foreign Policy Choices for the Next President
(Washington D.C., Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Edmund A. Walsh
School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 2008); and Marina Ottaway,
Nathan J. Brown, Amr Hamzawy, Karim Sadjadpour and Paul Salem, The New
Middle East (Washington, D.C., Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
2008).
Space is limited. Please contact Don LaVange at <lavangdo@???> or
863-6455 to reserve a place.
Participants will receive a $250 stipend for participating in the seminar,
or $50 per day.
The seminar is cosponsored with the UVSC Peace and Justice Studies Program.
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David Richard Keller, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Study of Ethics
Utah Valley State College
801.863.6363
http://davidkeller.us/
