ICAR Faculty Book Presention: US Ambassador to OSCE
On Thursday, July 5th, 2007, ICAR Professor Dennis J.D. Sandole made a presentation on his new book, Peace and Security in the Postmodern World. The OSCE and Conflict Resolution, at a reception held in his honor by Ambassador Julie Finley, Head of the U.S. Delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The event took place at the Hof burg Palace in Vienna, Austria, site of negotiations and other meetings of the 56-country OSCE, the world’s most comprehensive regional security organization which helped facilitate the ending of the Cold War.
“In his book, Dr. Sandole analyzes responses to questions he put to representatives of the various delegations in 1993, 1997, 1999, and 2004, on (a) the causes of the genocidal wars in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s; (b) lessons learned from those wars and how the international community did or did not respond to them; and (c) how to redesign peace and security in Europe to ensure that such wars with their implications for global terrorism never happened again.
“In his comments prior to presenting signed copies of the book to each delegation and members of the OSCE Secretariat, Dr. Sandole mentioned that the books were made available by a grant provided by the Office of the Provost of George Mason University Dr. Peter Stearns.”