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I Hotel & Conference Center - 1900 S. First St., Champaign
11:00 AM - Registration
11:30 AM - BRUNCH
12:15 PM - business meeting and awards:
- Karen Bush (W Ellison Chalmers Award)
- A. Belden Fields (Victor Stone Award)
12:30 PM - speaker Robert Naiman
Transparency and Accountability for the
Drone Strike Policy: A Winnable Fight
Robert Naiman will discuss the legal, ethical
and political problems with the current drone
strike policy and make suggestions for citizen
engagement that would make the drone strike
policy more transparent and accountable.
Naiman was on a peace delegation to Pakistan
in October to protest the drone strike policy. He is Policy Director at
Just Foreign Policy, edits their news summary, and writes on U.S. foreign
policy at the Huffington Post. He is president of the board of Truthout. He
has worked as a policy analyst and researcher at the Center for Economic
and Policy Research and Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. Naiman has
masters degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Illinois
and has studied and worked in the Middle East.
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