Jimmy Carter at UCI

April 27, 2007 Uncategorized 7

Former President Jimmy Carter will visit UC Irvine next Thursday, May 3rd to talk about the conflict between Israel and Palestine and answer questions from students.  Here’s the press release:

 

Jimmy Carter to visit UC Irvine, talk with students

Former president will discuss Middle East conflict between Israel and Palestine

Irvine, Calif., April 27, 2007Former President Jimmy Carter will visit UC Irvine on Thursday, May 3, to discuss the Middle East conflict between Israel and Palestine and answer questions from students.

“We are honored to host President Carter, who has provided such distinguished service to our nation and to the world,” said William R. Schonfeld, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy. “This is a rare and exciting opportunity for our students to hear directly from a former President of the United States about issues of great concern.”

Carter’s address to UCI students, faculty, staff and alumni will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the UCI Bren Events Center. Students are encouraged to submit questions online before the event and a panel of students and faculty will select representative queries to ask Carter during the program.

Carter is lauded for his work to forge the groundbreaking Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel in 1979. In his recent book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, he revisited Middle East issues and generated discussions across the country with a title that he acknowledges is provocative. His talk at UCI will focus on the current conflict in the Middle East.

For decades, the Carter Center has worked to promote democracy, mediate conflict and improve global health through the eradication of diseases including Guinea worm disease and malaria. In 2002, Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his “effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”  While at UCI, he will be presented with the 2008 UCI Citizen Peacebuilding Award. Previous recipients include former Soviet leader Mikhael Gorbechev and the XIV Dalai Lama.

Members of the UCI community may obtain ticket information at www.socsci.uci.edu/events/carter. Plans are being made to webcast the event live at that site for members of the public.

This event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy and the student-led Model United Nations in association with the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding and the Department of Political Science.

 

7 Comments

  1. Nice to see Matt Cunningham at OC Blog refer to President Carter as “every foreign tyrants’ favorite ex- U.S. President.”

    With partisan hacks like this, is it a wonder that even Greenhut can’t stomach the Republican party anymore?

  2. I thought it was W. Aren’t his actions the best recruiting tool the terrorists have ever had

  4. Matt,

    Nice of you to take time out to drop by and insult the liberals.

    I thought you’d be too busy trying to find some principles of conservatism left in the Republican party after George W Bush and his gang of cronies, crooks and incompetents have systematically destroyed the country’s faith in your party, the budget, our military, and our standing in the world. You’ve still got that 12% of the population who think the surge is working and things are getting better in Iraq. Maybe you can build a new conservative movement on that.

  5. Hey Anonymous, nice of you to take time out to anonymously insult me again, and then obscure some good points with over-the-top liberal hyperbole. And if you look above, you’ll notice this comment thread kicked off with you calling me a “partisan hack” (I hope you don’t mind being directed to a fact).

    If the GOP is to revive itself it will be by re-committing itself to conservative principles — or rather, by our leadership re-committing itself.

    As I recall, there were quite a few Democrats who completely agreed with the Bush and Blair about invading Iraq. Only now your party seems to think that the solution to a poorly-managed war is to capitulate and retreat, rather than win.

    And I hope your fellow Democrats in Washington and the presidential field don’t share your affinity for conducting military strategy by opinion poll.

  6. Jimmy Carter may have been part of the flotsam following the Reagan Revolution, but he is the most beloved, respected of Ex-Presidents (even when Ford & Reagan were still alive and active). Instead of cashing in on the heafty speaking fees, Carter has been ‘walking the walk’ with respect to his beliefs. It is a shame more of us are unable or unwilling to do so.

    As to the Democratic Presidential Candidates calling for an end to the Occupation; several of them were team players when the Bushies made a case for invading Iraq. Since then, we have learned that this nation was lied into an invasion and subsequent occupation with no military solution. Why should anyone continue to support a policy based on lies?

    Finally, there were several reasons Daddy Bush did not ‘take out Saddam’ when he had the chance 15 years ago. One of those reasons is on display for the world to see: a power vacuum, chaos and vengence killings to name a few. The Liar-in-Chief on a Dry Drunk determined he knew better than his daddy and this nation is reduced to being a co-dependent to this gang of thugs currently occupying the White House.

  7. Matt —
    To the comment I’m out of the mainstream with regards to Americans supporting Carter over Bush; I don’t think so.

    http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1020

    This is from 2005; Bush’s numbers have gone downhill since there. And in 2005, the majority of Americans said they would choose Jimmy Carter over George W. Bush.

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