Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture Series

The Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture Series is a forum for high-level national and international leaders and policy makers to share their knowledge and perspectives on issues related to peace and justice. Designed to broaden our understanding and thinking about how to prevent and resolve conflict and promote peace with justice, the series is made possible by a generous endowment from the late Joan B. Kroc.

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The Distinguished Lecture Series offers the community at large an opportunity to engage with today’s leaders who are working to forge new dialogues with parties in conflict and who seek to answer the question of how to create an enduring peace for tomorrow. With the world confronting a genocide in Sudan, with security concerns restricting civil rights in countries around the world, and with innocent civilians, especially women and children, facing continuing assaults on their rights as defined by the UN's Declaration of Human Rights, distinguished speakers throughout the year will address the impact of human rights issues on conflict prevention and resolution.

Latest Lecture

Development: Creating Sustainable Justice: Dr. Paul Farmer, Co-Founder of Partners In Health and United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti. Biography

Past Lectures

	Louise Arbour Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights "Integrating Security, Development and Human Rights"
	Hanan Ashrawi Secretary General - Palestinian Initiative for Global Dialogue and Democracy "Concept, Context, and Process in Peacemaking: The Palestinian-Israeli Experience"
	The Honorable Lloyd Axworthy President of University of Winnipeg and Former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs "The Responsibility to Protect: Prescription for a Global Public Domain"
	Dr. Helen Caldicott President of Nuclear Policy Research Institute "New Nuclear Danger"
	Shirin Ebadi 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate "Iran Awakening: Human Rights, Women and Islam"
	Dr. Robert Edgar General Secretary of National Council of Churches "The Role of the Church in U.S. Foreign Policy Today"
	Jan Egeland Former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator for the U.N. "War, Peace and Climate Change: A Billion Lives in the Balance"
	Ambassador Jan Eliasson Former Special Envoy of the U.N. Secretary-General for Darfur and Former U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs "Armed Conflict: The Cost to Civilians"
	The Honorable Gareth Evans President and CEO of the International Crisis Group and Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia   "Preventing Mass Atrocities: Making 'Never Again' a Reality"
	Justice Richard Goldstone Former Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia & Rwanda "Preventing Deadly Conflict"
	Jane Goodall Founder of Jane Goodall Institute and U.N. Messenger of Peace "Reason for Hope"
	Priscilla Hayner Co-Founder of the International Center for Transitional Justice  "International Strides for Inclusive Peacebuilding"
	Noeleen Heyzer Executive Director of U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) "Women, War, and Peace: Mobilizing for Security and Justice in the 21st Century"
	Ambassador Christopher R. Hill Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs "U.S. Policy in East Asia and the Pacific"
	His Excellency Ketumile Masire Former President of the Republic of Botswana "Perspective into Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Contemporary Peacebuilding Efforts"
	Miria Matembe Co-founder of Action for Development "Women, War, Peace: Politics in Peacebuilding"
	Lt. General Joseph Olorungbon Owonibi Former Force Commander of the U.N. Mission in Liberia "International Strides for Inclusive Peacebuilding"
	Alma Viviana Pérez Consultant to the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs "Women, War, Peace: Politics in Peacebuilding"
	Mary Robinson Former President of Ireland and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights "Human Rights and Ethical Globalization"
	Kenneth Roth Executive Director of Human Rights Watch  "The Dynamics of Human Rights and the Environment"
	Irene Santiago Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the Mindanao Commission on Women and Co-founder of the Mothers for Peace Movement in the Philippines "Women, War, Peace: Politics in Peacebuilding"
	William F. Schulz Executive Director of Amnesty International USA "Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights"
	Ambassador Donald K. Steinberg Director of the Joint Policy Council of the U.S. Department of State "Conflict, Gender and Human Rights: Lessons from the Field"
	General Anthony C. Zinni United States Marine Corps (retired) "From the Battlefield to the Negotiating Table: Preventing Deadly Conflict"