UNA-MAINE CALENDAR 2008


24 OCTOBER - UNITED NATIONS DAY -

                            Speaker: TBA

                            Topic:  TBA

                            Time: TBA

                            Location: TBA

                           

6 DECEMBER - ANNUAL MEETING -

                            Speaker:  TBA
                                                                         
                            Location:  The Highlands, Topsham (Main Lodge, 2nd floor dining room)

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UNA-MAINE CALENDAR 2009



MAY - MAINE MODEL UN (USM)


24 OCTOBER - UNITED NATIONS DAY

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UNA-MAINE ARCHIVE



- Annual Meeting, 8 December 2007, The Highlands, Topsham
          Topic: The ICC Goes to Work
          Speaker: AMICC Convener John Washburn


- United Nations Day, 24 October 2007, Audubon Center, Falmouth
          Topic: The Ice Chronicles & Climate Change
          Speaker: Dr Paul A. Mayewski
                          Director, University of Maine Climate Change Institute
                          Co-author, The Ice Chronicles


- End Genocide Day, 23 April 2007, USM (co-sponsorship)
          Topic: Globalization Ethics & Human Rights
          Speaker: Mary Robinson
                          Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
                          and former President of Ireland


- Water Music, 19 April 2007, USM (co-sponsorship)
          Topic: A program of photography & music about water issues worldwide
          Speaker: Margerie Ryerson
                          Vermont photographer


- Achieving Global Energy Security Conference, 13 April 2007, USM (co-sponsorship)
            Keynote Speaker:  Mary-Wynne Ashford, MD
                                            International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War


- Human Rights Day, 11 December 2006, USM (co-sponsorship)
          Topic: Torture Policy
          Speaker: Admiral John D. Hutson
                          President & Dean, Franklin Pierce Law Center, NH


- Annual Meeting, 2 December 2006, The Highlands, Topsham
          Topic: Middle East Policy
          Discussion facilitators: Mac Deford & Ed Knox


- United Nations Day, 24 October 2006, USM
          Topic: Why the UN is Indispensable
          Speaker: Stephen Schlesinger
                          Author, Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations


- The Peacekeepers, 9 April 2006, Skidompha Library, Damariscotta (with CONA)
          a Canadian documentary film


- Annual Meeting, 3 December 2005
          Topic: International Civil Service
          Keynote speaker: Bruce Stedman,
                                        Retiring Chapter Vice President


- United Nations Day, 22 October 2005, Portland Museum of Art
          Topic: The Challenges and Opportunities Before the United Nations Today
          Speaker: Sir Brian Urquhart


- Africa & International Criminal Justice, World Law Day - 1 May 2005, University of Maine School of Law, Portland - FMI
          Keynote Speaker: Adotei Akwei, Amnesty International
          Panelists: Desire Assogbavi (CICC); James Cockayne; Wasana Punyasena (AMICC)
          Co-sponsors:  Maine Alliance for the International Criminal Court; Black Law Students Association;
                                  NAACP Portland Branch; World Affairs Council


- Water for Life, 14 April 2005, Chewonki, Wiscasset
          Panelists: Salam Gerzher Alemayo; John Banks; Elizabeth Burleson


- Annual Meeting, 11 December 2004
          Keynote speaker: Victoria Holt,
          Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington DC
          Topic: The UN and the Second Term


- United Nations Day, 24 October 2004, University of Maine School of Law
          Topic: Environmental Injustice: The Niger Delta Experience
          Speaker: Innih Archibong,
                          Executive Director, Liberty Now (Nigeria)
                          Visiting Scholar, Columbia University
          Co-sponsors:  Amnesty International; Black Law Students Association; Citizens for Global Solutions;
                                  Environmental Law Society; International Law Society


- Luncheon Talk, 30 August 2004, University of Maine, Orono
          Topic: The Cost of US Opposition to the International Criminal Court
          Speaker: John Washburn,
                          Convenor, American NGOs Coalition for the ICC, New York City


- Annual Meeting, 13 December 2003
          Keynote speaker:  Don Kraus,
                                          Executive Director of the Campaign for UN Reform
          Topic: Prospects for Strengthening the UN


- Centenary Celebration of the Work of Ralph Bunche, October 2003


- Annual Meeting, 7 December 2002
          Keynote speaker:  Mark Epstein,
                                          Executive Director of the World Federalist Association
          Topic: World Summit on Sustainable Development


- EYES ON THE ICC: What Americans want to know
          about the new International Criminal Court -
          Conference at the University of Maine School of Law, October 2002

          ICC conference papers & photos


- UN Day Lecture, October 2001
          Speaker: Ambassador Frederik Wilhelm Breitenstein,
                          Special Advisor to the UN Office of the Iraqi Program;
                          Former Finnish Ambassador to the UN
          Topic: Terrorism and Nation-Building: the Role of the United Nations in the Post-9-11 World


- Global Public Health Symposium, February 2001



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