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LIPW ANNUAL MEETING Keynote Speaker: Rev. Michele Armster. Reviewing the past year's work and visioning the next. All are welcome.
Spring Peace forum with Dr. Trita Parsi Parsi was born in Iran but moved with his family at the age of four to Sweden in order to escape political repression in Iran. His father was an outspoken academic and non-Muslim who was jailed by the Shah and then by the Ayatollah. He moved to the United States as an adult and studied foreign policy at Johns Hopkins' School for Advanced International Studies where he received his Ph.D. Parsi has followed Middle East politics through work in the field and extensive experience on Capitol Hill and at the United Nations. He is frequently consulted by Western and Asian governments on foreign policy matters. Parsi has worked for the Swedish Permanent Mission to the UN, where he served in the Security Council, handling the affairs of Afghanistan, Iraq, Tajikistan and Western Sahara, and in the General Assembly's Third Committee, addressing human rights in Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Iraq.
PUBLIC ADDRESS BY DR. GARY DORRIEN Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary. Details forthcoming.
SEMINAR FOR CHURCH LEADERS & SOCIAL ACTIVISTS Led by GARY DORRIEN. Details forthcoming.
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Dr. Trita Parsi will present an assessment of US-Iranian Relations on April 8, 2010. The title for Dr. Parsi's address will be "Between War and Democracy – Iran, Israel and the US." Dr. Parsi is founder and president of the National Iranian American Council and an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian politics, and the balance of power in the Middle East. He is the author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press 2007), for which he conducted more than 130 interviews with senior Israeli, Iranian and American decision-makers. Treacherous Alliance is the silver medal winner of the 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations.