For Immediate Release	December 18, 1995
 
Lawrence University Lecture Series Examines the United Nations at 50
 
	
        APPLETON, WIS.-  A special five-part series, "The United Nations at 
Fifty," featuring the perspectives of diplomats, U.N. officers and leading
political scientists will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of
the United Nations during the month of January at Lawrence University.  The
lecture series will offer in-depth retrospects on the international
organization as well  as insights on its future challenges.  Each installment
of the series, which is  free and open to the public, will be presented in
Lawrence's Main Hall, Room 109  at 7 p.m.   
	The dates, titles and featured speakers of the lecture series are as
follows.
	*Thursday, January 4, "The United Nations:  Fifty Years of Making War
and Making Peace," Michael W. Doyle, professor of politics and international
affairs, Princeton University.  A member of the Princeton faculty for 15 years,
Doyle serves as editor of the journal, "International Peacekeeping," and is an
advisor on United Nations affairs to the Federation of American Scientists. His
latest book, "U.N. Peacekeeping in Cambodia: UNTACUs Civil Mandate," was
published earlier this year.
	*Thursday, January 11, "U.S. National Interest and the United Nations,"
David J. Scheffer, senior adviser to Madeleine Albright, the U.S. Ambassador to
the United Nations.  Prior to joining Ambassador Albright's staff, Scheffer
spent four years as a senior associate in international and national security
law at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.  He
wrote the book, "Beyond Confrontation:  International Law for the Post-Cold War
Era," which was published in 1995.     
	*Wednesday, January 17, "The United Nations, Peace-keeping and
Humanitarian Emergencies," Elisabeth Lindenmayer, principal officer, U.N.
Department of Peace-keeping Operations.  Born in the African country of Burkina
Faso (formerly known as Upper Volta), Lindenmayer joined the United Nations in
1977.  A member of the department of peace-keeping operations since 1992, she
has served as desk officer for the U.N. Observation Mission on the Iraq-Kuwait
border, the U.N. Operation in Somalia and is currently desk officer for the
U.N. Assistance Mission in Rwanda.
	*Monday, January 22, *Global Environmental Cooperation:  Promises and
Reality," Jeffrey Herbst, associate professor of politics and international
affairs, Princeton University.  A specialist in African political and economic
reforms, Herbst has written four books, including "U.S. Economic Policy Towards
Africa:  Promoting Reform in the 1990Us," which was published in 1992.  He spent
a year as a research fellow at both the University of Zimbabwe and the
University of Ghana and served as a visiting Fulbright professor for a year at
the University of Cape Town and the University of Western Cape in South Africa. 
	*Wednesday, January 31, "Reforming the United Nations:  Challenges and
Prospects," Ambassador Olara Otunnu, president of the International Peace
Academy.  Ambassador Otunnu served as Uganda's representative to the United
Nations from 1980-85, during which time he served variously as President of the
Security Council, Chairman of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, Vice
President of the U.N. General Assembly and Chairman of the African Group.  In
1990, Otunnu was named president of the IPA, an international organization
based in New York City dedicated to facilitating political resolutions to
conflicts between and within countries.
	The U.N. lecture series is sponsored by the Lt. William Kellogg Harkins
Jr. Values Program and the Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in International Studies. 
The Harkins Program was founded in 1985 to promote interest and discussion on
issues of moral significance.  The Povolny Lectureship, established in 1987 in
honor of the former Lawrence professor of government, promotes speakers and
programs on international politics, stressing topics with moral and ethical
dimensions.	 


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