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"Resource Wars" brings some of the best minds
in global resource analysis together to
explore the history and potential for
conflict over the ever increasing demand for
limited resources. All talks are free to the public.
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Archived Webcasts are posted here shortly after the event. The free Realplayer is needed to view this archive webcast.
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Sunday, March 26
Global Simulation Game
5 p.m-8 p.m., PE Building Gym (2nd floor)
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100 UI students will get to participate in a three hour interactive world simulation game played on a giant world map. The game is presented by OS Earth. The game teaches participants how the world works by letting them make decisions for nations of the world. It stimulates thought on how we better manage the world and its resources.
A lottery will be held for the limited number of participant spots. Enter the lottery here! Even if you can't play drop by and observe from the side lines.
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Monday, March 27
Global Petro-politics -- Dr. Klare
12:30 p.m. SUB Silver-Gold Room
Spiritual Negotiations: The Kabbalah of Conflict -- Dr. Wolf
2:30 p.m. SUB Silver-Gold Room
Oil and Water - Conflict Over Resources - Presentations and Discussion -- Drs. klare and Wolf
7 p.m. SUB Ballroom
Archived WebCast Here
| Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World
Security Studies (a joint appointment at Amherst College, Hampshire
College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst), and Director of the
Five College Program in
Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), a position he has held since
1985. Before assuming his present post, he served as Director of the
Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute for Policy
Studies in Washington, D.C. (1977-1984). Professor Klare has written
widely on U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, and world security
affairs.
He is the author of: Blood and Oil: The Dangers and
Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum
(Metropolitan Books, 2004); Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global
Conflict (Metropolitan Books, 2001); Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws
(Hill and Wang, 1995); American Arms Supermarket (University of Texas
Press, 1984); Supplying Repression (Field Foundation, 1978; 2nd ed.,
Institute for Policy Studies, 1981); and War Without End: American
Planning for the Next Vietnams (Knopf, 1974). In addition, he is the
editor or co-editor of a number of books and journals.
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Aaron Wolf is an associate professor of geography in the Department of
Geosciences at Oregon State University. His research focus is on the
interaction between water science and water policy, particularly as
related to conflict prevention and resolution. He has acted as
consultant to the US Department of State, the US Agency for
International Development, and the World Bank on various aspects of
transboundary water resources and dispute resolution.
Wolf coordinates the Transboundary Freshwater
Dispute Database, an electronic compendium of case studies of water
conflicts and conflict resolution, international treaties, national
compacts, and indigenous methods of water dispute resolution and is a
co-director of the Universities Partnership on Transboundary Waters.
He is author of
Hydropolitics Along the Jordan River: The Impact of Scarce Water
Resources on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, (United Nations University
Press, 1995), and a co-author of Core and Periphery: A Comprehensive
Approach to Middle Eastern Water, (Oxford University Press, 1997) and
Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Resolution, (United Nations
University Press, 2000).
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Tuesday, March 28
An Individual's Responsibility - Cooperation or Conflict -- Suzuki
7 p.m., SUB Ballroom
Archived WebCast Here
| Severn Cullis-Suzuki, is director of the The Skyfish Project. Born and raised
in Vancouver, Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been active in environmental
and social justice work since kindergarten. At age 9, she and some
friends started the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), a
small group of children committed to learning and teaching other kids
about environmental issues. They were successful in many local
projects, and also in raising enough money to appear at 1992 Rio
Earth Summit, with the aim of reminding the decision makers of who the
conference would ultimately affect. The goal was reached when
12-yr-old Severn closed a Plenary Session with a powerful speech to the
political representatives. The following year, she received the UN
Environment Program's Global 500 Award at a ceremony in Beijing,
China. Later, as member of UN Secretary General Kofi Anan's Special
Advisory Panel, she and members of the group brought their first
project, a pledge called the Recognition of Responsibility to the UN
World Summit in Johannesburg in August 2002. Now 25, Cullis-Suzuki
continues to speak to schools and corporations, and at many
conferences and international meetings. Often speaking on the
necessity of defining our values, acting with the future in mind, and
on individual responsibility; she is especially passionate about
encouraging young people to speak out for their future.
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Wednesday, March 29
Society and Natural Resources (Choices) -- Suzuki
12:30 p.m. , Commons Summit Room
Keynote address: Collapse - How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail -- Dr. Diamond
7 p.m., SUB Ballroom
Archived WebCast Here
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Dr. Jared Diamond of the Geography Department at UCLA is a
noted author and scientist whose work over the past decade has focused
on the relationship of resources and development to peace and
conflict. The questions of what makes certain societies more
vulnerable than others, what can be learned from other examples, and
how to approach these issues in the future are complicated, and a
fitting framework for this year's Symposium.
Diamond's most recent publication, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to
Fail or Succeed", is something of a companion piece to his 1997's "Guns,
Germs, and Steel". Both tackle big questions: why do some societies
thrive and prosper, while others shrivel and die; how can humanity
maximize the opportunity for human happiness, while saving the planet
from ecological ruin and collapse; are there lessons we can learn from
other great civilizations who have grown to world dominance?
Diamond is also the author of two other best-selling books, "The Third
Chimpanzee: the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal" and "Why Is
Sex Fun: The Evolution of Human Sexuality". He has received some of
the most prestigious awards the world has to offer, including a
MacArthur Foundation genius grant, the Conservation medals of the
Zoological Society of San Diego (1993), the Carr Medal (1989), and
Japan's International Cosmos Prize (1998), as well as the USA's
highest civilian award in science: the National Medal of Science, for
his landmark research and breakthrough discoveries in evolutionary
Biology. In 2001 he was awarded the prestigious Tyler Prize for
Environmental Achievement.
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