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Reservation and
Cancellation Policies.
Luncheon and Annual
Dinner reservations have become increasingly popular and are filling our
venue capacities more rapidly than ever. While this is greatly appreciated
by the WACSC Management Board, it requires the implementation of some
practical controls, as follows:
Reservations
must be cut off one week before the date of the event. If your reservation
is received after the published deadline it will be returned and your name
will be placed on a waiting list.
Cancellations
will be honored if you call our hotline, 707-573-6014, at least 48 hours
before the event. This same number can be used to ask questions about WACSC
programs and policies. You will receive a refund in the mail. If you need to
cancel less than 48 hours before the event we cannot issue a refund because
your meal will be charged to the Council. Cancellations made before the 48
hour deadline may allow members on a waiting list to attend.
No Doggie Bag
policy applies to two of our meal venues: Fountaingrove Inn and the
Hilton Hotel. This is their food safety rule; not ours.
FIRST QUARTER 2012 PROGRAMS
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Friday, January 20,
2012,
Annual Dinner
AFGHANISTAN,
PAKISTAN, INDIA – The Challenge of Achieving Good Governance in Asia
David Arnold,
President of the Asia Foundation
Social hour
(no-host cocktails) 5:30; Dinner 6:30 p.m.
FountainGrove Inn
Hotel, Camelot Room
101 Fountaingrove
Parkway, Santa Rosa (enter from Mendocino Avenue)
Members $35;
Visitors $40
Reservation
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David Arnold has
recently visited the Asia Foundation’s country offices in Pakistan,
Afghanistan, and India. In these and other more underdeveloped nations
in Asia, he believes the primary focus should be the need for good
governance. He points out that 10 of the 18 countries in South and
Southeast Asia are either dealing with current armed insurgencies or are
in fragile post-conflict situations.
Mr. Arnold will
share his observations from his recent trip to Asia, his hopes and
recommendations for U.S. foreign policy, and then describe what
direction the work of the Asia Foundation will take for the coming
years.
David Arnold became
the sixth president of The Asia Foundation on January 1, 2011.
Previously he had served as president of the American University in
Cairo for seven years, and as executive vice-president of the Institute
of International Education the six years prior.
His Bachelor’s
degree is from the University of Michigan; his Master’s degree in Public
Administration, from Michigan State University.

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Thursday, February 2, 2012,
THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED NATIONS: FROM FDR TO OBAMA
sponsored by The
United Nations Association Sonoma County Chapter
Chris O’Sullivan Ph.D., teaches history and international studies at
the University of San Francisco
7:30 PM, First United Methodist Church 1551 Montgomery Drive Santa Rosa
Refreshments will be served
The 2012 elections promise to determine whether the United States pursues a
constructive or obstructionist relationship with the United Nations. In the
midst of the campaign, Chris O’Sullivan will explore the history of the
US-UN relationship, from its origins in 1945 to today. O’Sullivan will
discuss the differing approaches American presidents took in their relations
with the UN, from the heyday of US-UN relations in the 1940s and 50s, to the
more recent acrimony of the 2003 Iraq War and the John Bolton appointment
and the current financial crisis.
Chris O’Sullivan (Ph.D., MA, London School of Economics, University of
London; BA, UC Berkeley) teaches history and international studies at the
University of San Francisco, where he is the recipient of their most recent
Distinguished Lecturer Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is the author of
several books about world affairs, including Colin Powell: A Political
Biography (2010); The United Nations (2005); and Sumner Welles (2008) which
received the American Historical Association's Gutenberg Prize and is a
Council of Learned Societies Humanities Book Selection. He has lectured on
the history of the United Nations at the FDR Presidential Library, the
United Nations University in Tokyo, the Library of Congress, and the UN’s
60th Anniversary celebration.
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Tuesday, February
7, 2012,
REFUGEES -- THE RED
CROSS AT HOME AND ABROAD
Tim Miller,
American Red Cross Chief Executive Officer of Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake
Counties Chapter
7:30 p.m., Spring
Lake Village auditorium
5555 Montgomery
Drive, Santa Rosa
Members & SLV free;
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2011 has seen more
major natural disasters than any year on record, with revolutions and
armed conflicts in more than 20 nations. Born of war in 1864, the
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement have worked to
ameliorate human suffering for more than 150 years. With 20 years’
experience, Tim Miller will discuss the unique role of the Red Cross in
crises, explain its role as guardian of Geneva Conventions, and explain
the role our local chapter plays on the global stage.
Mr. Miller is
Regional Executive Officer for the California Northwest Region. He is
also on the national Red Cross faculty, serving as an instructor-trainer
in international humanitarian law. While pursuing an M.A. in
international policy studies from the Monterey Institute of
International Studies, he lived in China. He has been Country Director
for a farmer-focused refugee-relief non-profit agency in Azerbaijan, and
also its Regional Representative for Asia and the Middle East.
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Friday, February
24, 2012,
THE EVOLUTION OF NATIONAL SECURITY WIRETAPPING SINCE 9/11
David Kris,
former U.S. Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division,
Department of Justice
Noon, La Gare
Restaurant
208 Wilson Street, Santa Rosa
Members $23;
Visitors $28
Reservations
required by February 17
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David
Kris will discuss origins and evolution of law governing electronic
surveillance for national security, focusing on “modernization” of that
law after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He will discuss the National
Security Agency Terrorist Surveillance Program, which ignited a wildfire
of controversy when revealed by the New York Times and confirmed
by President Bush in 2005. He considers that program the opening gambit
in a seven-year effort to modernize the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA). He will describe factors leading Congress to
modernize FISA, explain what is at stake in modernization, and speculate
on the future of national security surveillance here and abroad.
Now General Counsel of Intellectual Ventures in Seattle,
Kris’s past positions include Associate Deputy Attorney General for
national security issues, U.S. Department of Justice; counsel and Senior
Vice-President for Time Warner, Inc.; nonresident Senior Fellow at
Brookings Institution; Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University;
Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, Department of
Justice (’09-’11).

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Tuesday, March
6, 2012,
PROSECUTING
WARLORDS, GENOCIDAIRES, HEADS OF STATE:
The
International Criminal Court at The Hague
Jacob N.
Foster,
Associate
Attorney, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP
7:30 p.m.,
Spring Lake Village Auditorium
5555 Montgomery
Drive, Santa Rosa
Members & SLV
free; Visitors $5
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Less than a decade after its inception,
the International Criminal Court is at the forefront of response to
the most serious crimes of concern to the international community,
such as genocide and war crimes. Proponents argue that prosecuting
such crimes is necessary to ensure peace and reconciliation, while
critics contend that international criminal proceedings are
selective justice enforced by the world's most powerful countries.
Jacob Foster, who worked on Muammar Gaddafi’s arrest warrant,
explores the complexities of international criminal justice.
In 2011 while at his present firm,
Foster took temporary leave to serve in the Immediate Office of the
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, where he
worked on investigation and prosecution of crimes against humanity,
war crimes, and genocide around the world. The San Francisco
Chronicle profiled him in the front page story “Seeking to Right
Wrongs Against Humanity,” and the Daily Journal in “From Associate
to War Crimes Prosecutor.”
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Friday, March
16, 2012,
THE DAY THAT
SHOOK JAPAN: 3/11 (Japanese Politics and Foreign Relations)
Tsuneo Akaha,
Ph.D.,
Professor of
International Policy Studies, Director of the Center for East Asian
Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies
Noon, Quail Inn
7025 Oakmont
Drive, Santa Rosa
Members $20; Visitors $25
Reservation required by 3/9
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Dr. Akaha during the last few months
has been on sabbatical leave at his alma mater, Waseda Univesity in
Tokyo, Japan, teaching a graduate seminar on Asian regional
integration. He has watched closely Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s
dedication to rebuilding confidence in the Democratic Party of Japan
(DPJ) after the devastating earthquake in Northern Japan on March 3,
2011. He will speak about the post-earthquake era’s impact on
politics within Japan and Japan's evolving foreign policy.
Dr. Akaha, a native-born Japanese, has
spent much of his adult life studying and teaching in the United
States. He earned his Ph.D in International Relations at the
University of Southern California. He has authored and/or edited
eleven books and over 100 journal articles on human security and
migration in East Asia, international relations in Northeast Asia,
and Japanese foreign policy.

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For reservations, make
checks payable to WACSC and send to World Affairs Council, PO Box 1433,
Santa Rosa, CA 95402.
Reminder!
We have a great
corporate sponsor, Spring Lake Village, please support them
at every opportunity.
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