We are
proud to announce that our
2006 Human Security Award will be presented to
Lieutenant-General the Honourable Roméo A. Dallaire, O.C.,
C.M.M., G.O.Q. M.S.C., C.D., (Retired). In 1994, while
serving as commander of the U.N. Assistance Mission to
Rwanda, General Dallaire saved thousands of Rwandans
during one of the worst genocides of the twentieth
century. Join us on October 11, 2006 as we recognize
General Dallaire for his efforts to stop genocide by
presenting him with the
2006 Human Security Award.
CAHS
co-founders Sandi Jackson and Susan Samueli were
featured on the October 2nd broadcast of KOCE public
television's Real
Orange. They discussed their vision for CAHS and
our upcoming Human Security
Summit with Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire on October
11, 2006.
Sandi Jackson and Susan
Samueli, co-founders of our Coalition
Advocating Human Security, were profiled in
The Orange County Register's "People Making a
Difference" column for their work on Human Security with
CAHS.
Orange
Coast magazine's September Issue features our
lunch with Dr. Wafa Sultan
as part of it's "OC People" section.
"Surviving in a Changing World: Environment, Security
and Microfinance," an article by Richard Matthew of CUSA
and Anne Hammill of IISD has been published in
The Green Cross Optimist. This article explores
how micro-credit lending could prove a pathway to a
peaceful future for the world’s most vulnerable people
by bolstering sustainable livelihoods and human
security.
CAHS sponsored a lunch
with
a lunch with Dr. Wafa
Sultan on Thursday, June 15th. In May of 2006, Dr.
Sultan was named as one of Time Magazine’s “100 People
Who Shape Our World.” Learn more about this event by
visiting this page.
We presented
a lunch with Judea and
Ruth Pearl,
Parents of Daniel Pearl and Founders of the Daniel Pearl
Foundation, and Jackie Gelfand, Executive
Director, Daniel Pearl Foundation, on Friday, March 10th
at 11:00 am. To learn
more about the event,
please visit this webpage. You can read more about
the event in
this article from the Daily Pilot.
On February 21, 2006 we hosted "A
Light in the Heart of Darkness," with Baroness Caroline Cox
the founder of Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). HART seeks to
aid those who are, or who have recently been, suffering oppression
and persecution in various countries across the world.
Our second Human
Security Summit on November 4, 2005 featured a
keynote address on "Strong
Women, Strong Nations" by Zainab Salbi, the founder and CEO of
Women for Women International. Ms. Salbi was presented
with CUSA's 2005 Human Security Award.
CUSA’s Coalition
Advocating Human Security (CAHS) program is pleased to announce the
creation of a graduate fellowship program.
CAHS fellows will advance its mission of promoting research, education,
public awareness, and evidence based policy making to address urgent
cases of vulnerability linked to global changes that impact the lives of
individuals, communities, and nations. 2005-2006 CAHS fellows are:
CAHS presented “Human Security and Poverty: How
the Poor are Vulnerable to Terrorist Ideology,” a luncheon with
Lieutenant General Claudia J. Kennedy on Wednesday, May 25, 2005.
Lieutenant General Kennedy retired from the United States Army in June
2000. She made history by becoming the Army's first woman three-star
general. She is the first and only woman to ever receive this flag rank in
the United States Army.
CAHS
sponsored "Giving
a Voice to the Voiceless," a lunch with on. Baroness Cox's firsthand knowledge of communities experiencing terrorism and brutality provided an excellent introduction to
the topic CAHS is pursuing this year – Women and Human Security.
We are pleased to announce that
Landmines and Human
Security: International Politics and War's Hidden Legacy,
edited by Richard Matthew, Bryan McDonald, and Ken Rutherford is now
available from the State University of New York (SUNY)
Press. This volume was the subject of a workshop on "Landmines
and Human Security," in April of 2004.
