• Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture

  January 1, 2005 - Present

  The Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture was established by the Council and the family of Arthur C. Helton, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who died in the August 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad. The Helton Lectureship is an annual event at which one or more speakers address pressing issues in the broad field of human rights and humanitarian concerns.

  
  

   

  Meetings

  Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: Iraqi Refugees: The Resettlement Challenges

  General Meeting

  
  April 14, 2008

  Related Project: Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture

  Speakers:	Robert Carey, Vice President of Resettlement, International Rescue Committee
  	James B. Foley, Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues, U.S. Department of State
  	Kristele Younes, Senior Advocate, Refugees International
  	Deborah Amos, Foreign Correspondent, National Public Radio

   

  Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: Holding World Leaders Accountable to Reducing Global Poverty and Protecting Civilians

  General Meeting

  
  May 22, 2007

  Related Project: Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture

  Speaker:	Jan Egeland, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, United Nations; Former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations
  Presider:	Gillian M. Sorensen, National Advocate, United Nations Foundation; Former Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations

  5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Reception
  6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Meeting
  7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception

  Transcript: Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: Holding World Leaders Accountable to Reducing Global Poverty and Protecting Civilians [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]
  Audio: Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: Holding World Leaders Accountable to Reducing Global Poverty and Protecting Civilians (Audio)
  Video: Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: Holding World Leaders Accountable to Reducing Global Poverty and Protecting Civilians (Video)

  This meeting is on the record.

   

  Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture on Divided Nations: The Dilemmas of International Protection for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

  General Meeting

  
  May 15, 2006

  Related Project: Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture

  Speakers:	Roberta Cohen, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution; Co-Director, The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement; and Principal Adviser to the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons
  	Francis M. Deng, Director of the Center for Displacement Studies; Research Professor of International Law, Politics and Society, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress; and Wilhelm Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Presider:	Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations

  5:30 - 6:00 p.m. Reception
  6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Meeting
  7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception

  Transcript: Divided Nations: The Dilemmas of International Protection for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons [Rush Transcript, Federal News Service, Inc.]
  Audio: Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture on Divided Nations: The Dilemmas of International Protection for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (audio)
  Video: Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture on Divided Nations: The Dilemmas of International Protection for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (video)

  This meeting is on the record.

   

  Inaugural Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: A Conversation with Sadako Ogata

  General Meeting

  
  March 14, 2005

  Related Project: Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture

  Introductory Speaker:	Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
  Presider:	Princeton N. Lyman, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow, Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
  Speaker:	Sadako Ogata, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

  **This meeting is on the record.

  **Members are welcome to bring a guest to this event.

  Transcript: Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: A Conversation with Sadako Ogata
  Audio: Inaugural Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: A Conversation with Sadako Ogata (Audio)

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• New CFR Books

  

  In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.

  

  America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.

  

  In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.

  Complete list of CFR Books.

  New Council Special Reports

  Securing Pakistan's Tribal Belt

  This report outlines the nature of the challenges in Pakistan's tribal areas, formulates strategies for addressing those challenges, and distills the strategies into realistic policy proposals worthy of consideration by the incoming administration.

  Avoiding Transfers to Torture

  This report analyzes the debate over U.S. use of assurances against torture, explaining the contexts in which they are used, how they can be conveyed, and what they can contain, and recommends a number of ways to respond to criticism so that the United States can continue using assurances.

  Complete list of Council Special Reports.

  David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts

  For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:

  Gary Samore
  Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
  +1.212.434.9627
  gsamore@cfr.org

  Sebastian Mallaby
  Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
  smallaby@cfr.org

  Janine Hill
  Deputy Director of Studies Administration
  +1.212.434.9753
  jhill@cfr.org

   

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