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MAKE
PEACE A PRIORITY IN 2008 AND BEYOND
Speakers & Bios
Schedule
~ Entertainment
~ IVAW Panel
 Jeremy
Scahill, is author of The New York
Times-bestseller, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful
Mercenary Army. He is an independent journalist who reports frequently
for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!, has spent
extensive time reporting from Iraq and Yugoslavia. He is currently
a Puffin Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and a frequent contributor
to The Nation magazine. (Source)
Links:
Scahill
Testifies on Defense Contracting
Scahill
on Truthdig talking about Privatization of War
PHYLLIS BENNIS is
a senior analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington,
D.C. and a fellow of the Transnational Institute in
Amsterdam. She has been a writer, analyst and activist on Middle
East
and UN issues for many years. While working as a journalist at
the United Nations during the runup to the 1990-91 Gulf War, she
began working on U.S. domination of the UN, and stayed involved
in work on Iraq sanctions and disarmament, and later U.S. war and
occupation
in Iraq. Recent publications include: “Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli
Conflict: A Primer” (published by TARI), “Before &
After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis”
(Interlink Publishing 2002), and “Calling the Shots: How Washington
Dominates Today's UN” (Interlink Publishing, 2000).
Trita Parsi was
born in Ahvaz, Iran and grew up in Sweden . He is president and
founder of the National Iranian American Council, and a book author,
best known for his book "Treacherous Alliances: The Secret
Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States." (Yale University
Press 2007). Prior to founding the National Iranian American Council
he was Director of Fundraising for the American Iranian Council.
(Source)
Links:
NIAC’s
webpage
Parsi’s
Webpage
Antonia Juhasz is
a policy-analyst, author and activist living in San Francisco.  She
is a Fellow at Oil Change International and Visiting Scholar at
the Institute for Policy Studies. Juhasz is author of “The
Bu$h Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time” (HarperCollins,
April, 2006). The Bu$h Agenda exposes the Bush administration's
use of corporate globalization policy as a weapon of war. Juhasz's
new book, “The Tyranny of Oil: the World's Most Powerful Industry,
and What we Must do to Stop It,” will be released by HarperCollins
Publishers in September 2008. (Source)
(Juhasz's
webpage)
 Max
Kampelman is former head of the American
delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
He served as Ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation
in Europe from 1980-1983, Ambassador and Head of the United States
Delegation to the Negotiations with the Soviet Union on Nuclear
and Space Arms in Geneva from 1985-1989, and as Counselor to the
Department of State from 1987-1989. He then rejoined the law firm
of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, & Jacobson LLP, which he is
now of counsel. Kampelman is a member of the board of advisors for
the think tank Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).
He is currently co-chair of the American Committee for Peace in
Chechnya and a member of the Committee on the Present Danger. On
August 11, 1999, President Clinton awarded Mr. Kampelman the Presidential
Medal of Freedom. Recently, Kampelman served as a motivating force
behind the groundbreaking op-ed "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons,"
published on January 14, 2007 in the Wall Street Journal by George
P. Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn, and William Perry.
(Source)
We
Should, So We Can: Life Without the Bomb, By Kampelman
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