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2006 Human
Security
Award Ceremony
Human Rights in a Complex World
featuring a keynote address by
Lieutenant-General the Honourable Roméo A. Dallaire, O.C., C.M.M.,
G.O.Q. M.S.C., C.D., (Retired)
recipient of
the
2006
Human Security Award
Members of the Orange County community gathered on Wednesday, October
11, 2006 for the Human Security Summit at the University of California
Irvine, sponsored by the Coalition Advocating Human Security (CAHS), a
program of UC, Irvine's Center for Unconventional Security Affairs’
(CUSA). The summit featured “Human Rights in a Complex World,” a keynote
address by Lieutenant-General the Honourable Roméo A. Dallaire, O.C.,
C.M.M., G.O.Q. M.S.C., C.D., (Retired).
During the keynote address, CAHS presented General Dallaire with the
2006 Human Security Award for his heroic actions to save lives and
protect the vulnerable in Rwanda in 1994, while serving as U.N. Force
Commander, and for his subsequent efforts to educate, support and
provide leadership to the world community on pressing humanitarian
issues.
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General
Dallaire is presented with the 2006 Human Security Award by
UCI’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Michael R.
Gottfredson, CAHS co-chairs Sandi Jackson and Susan Samueli and
CUSA Director Richard A. Matthew |
General Roméo Dallaire is recognized as an advocate of peacemaking,
peacekeeping, and peacebuilding in the world’s most war-torn regions.
For the public at large, nationally and internationally, it was
following General Dallaire's appointment as Commander of the United
Nations Observer Mission- Uganda and Rwanda (UNOMUR) and the United
Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) on 1 July 1993 that the
name Dallaire became synonymous with courage. In recognition of his
exceptional leadership and ability during that mission he was awarded
the Meritorious Service Cross.
General Dallaire was summoned to the Senate of Canada on March 24th,
2005 where he continues to write and speak out against human rights
abuses, genocide and ethnic cleansing. He continues to focus on human
rights and the plight of war affected children in articles and lectures
in Canada, the US, the UK, Europe, and Africa. In April, 2006 he was
appointed to a United Nations Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention
by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
learn more about General
Dallaire...
- Introduction of General Dallaire -
by Richard Matthew, PhD, CUSA
Director
In 1994 I began teaching at Georgetown
University, where I was hired to replace Dr. Abiodun Williams, a
native of Sierra Leone, who had decided to leave the academic world
to join the UN Peacekeeping effort in Bosnia.
Dr. Williams and Dr. Marilyn McMorrow had just founded a program on
power and justice at Georgetown, and I was asked to replace Abi as
the co-Director of this new initiative.
Our focus for much of that first year was on human rights and
genocide.
As they learned about what had just happened in Rwanda, and also in
Bosnia, our students were shocked.
How, they asked, could the world make such strong commitments to
human rights and dignity, as it did after World War II, and yet fail
to act in the face of genocide?
Read the full text of the
introduction of General Dallaire...
- 2006 Human Security Graduate Fellowships -
During the Human
Security
Award Ceremony, CAHS also announced the winners of its 2006 Graduate
Fellowships in Human Security. CAHS awards two types of Fellowships each
year. The first fellowship, the Heather Mills McCartney Graduate
Fellowship in Human Security, was established in 2004 in honor of the
significant contributions to human security issues made by Heather Mills
McCartney.
These fellowships
allow graduate students to undertake
original research on pressing security issues, and enables CUSA to help
prepare the next generation of business, policy, and academic leaders
for the challenges they will face. Heather Mills McCartney returned to
UCI for the third time to personally present the 2006 Heather Mills
McCartney Graduate Fellowship in Human Security to:
CAHS also awards a
fellowship through its Coalition Advocating Human Security (CAHS)
program. Created in 2005, graduate fellowship winners advance CAHS’s
mission of promoting research, education, public awareness, and
evidence-based policymaking to address urgent cases of vulnerability
linked to global changes that impact the lives of individuals,
communities, and nations. 2006 Coalition Advocating Human Security
Fellowships were awarded to:
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Samantha Lane, a
PhD Student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, for
her project on “Justice, Reconciliation and the Law: A Study of
Women Survivors of the Genocide in Rwanda;” and
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P. Brian Fisher,
a PhD student in the Department of Political Science, for his
project on “Unequal Power in an Unequal World: Adapting to Climate
Change in SIDS”
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- Sponsors-
We would like to thank the following
sponsors for their support
- Platinum Sponsors -
Sandi and Dr. Doug Jackson
The
Samueli Foundation
- Gold Sponsors -
Hazem and Salma Chehabi
Tom and Pat Ricks
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
- Silver Sponsor -
Ralph
and Sue Stern
We would also
like to thank the Canadian Consulate General of Los Angeles and
the Government of Canada for their ongoing support of our
research and education on human security issues. |
To
learn how you can become a supporter of our programs and fellowships, please contact
us.
Center for Unconventional Security Affairs
University of California, Irvine
School of Social Ecology
Irvine, CA 92697-7075
Phone: (949) 824-8804
E-mail:
cusa@uci.edu |
