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LECTURE ON POST-WAR IRAQ TO BE HELD SEPTEMBER 30 AT OBERLIN COLLEGE
SEPTEMBER 25 , 2003—"Post-War Iraq: A View from the Ground" is the title of an address to be presented by William L. Nash, senior fellow and director of the Council on Foreign Relation’s Center for Preventive Action, Tuesday, September 30, at Oberlin College.
The free, public lecture will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Hallock Auditorium, located in the College’s Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, 122 Elm Street.
The talk is the next in a continuing series of lectures made possible by the Richard R. Hallock Foundation, which is dedicated to examining the challenges of national security in the 21st century. The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Politics.
As director of the Center for Preventive Action, Nash leads efforts to work with governments, international organizations, business communities, and non-governmental organizations to anticipate international crises and to provide analysis and specific recommendations for preventive action.
Nash is also chairman of the advisory council to the Fund for Peace’s Regional Responses to Internal War program, a military consultant to ABC News, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
A retired U.S. Army major general, Nash first served as a platoon leader in Vietnam; he was an armored brigade commander in Operation Desert Storm. As a major general, he commanded the 1st Armored Division from June 1995 to May 1997. In late 1995, he became the commander of Task Force Eagle, a multinational division of 25,000 soldiers from 12 nations charged with enforcing the military provisions of the Dayton Peace Accords in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina.
After his retirement in 1998, Nash was a fellow and visiting lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the director of civil-military programs at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington, D.C. In 2000, he became one of the few Americans to lead a civilian as well as a military peacekeeping operation, when he was named the regional administrator for the United Nations in northern Kosovo, with headquarters in Mitrovica.
The late Richard Reid Hallock '41, for whom the Hallock Foundation is named, had a deep interest in issues of national security and was an advisor to U.S. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger. Hallock frequently met with Oberlin faculty members to discuss plans for a class and lecture series that would address the changing nature of security in the new century.
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