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SUMMARY:Critical Response Event: Arming Perpetrators of Atrocities
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DESCRIPTION:Since the end of World War II\, the United States has provided
  material and political support for numerous governments that have committ
 ed atrocities\, including genocide. Some historical examples include U.S. 
 support for Indonesia (1965–1966 and 1975–1999)\, Pakistan (1971)\, Gu
 atemala (1981–1983)\, and Iraq (1987–1988). More recently\, the United
  States has armed and politically supported Saudi-led coalition members an
 d Israel as allegations of atrocities have been levied by various intergov
 ernmental and nongovernmental organizations.In this Critical Response Even
 t\, William Hartung\, Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for R
 esponsible Statecraft\, will provide an overview of U.S. arms sales to sta
 tes which are actively engaged in armed conflicts and\, in some cases\, ac
 cused of committing violations of international law\, and what can be done
  about it. The Q&A will be moderated by Dr. Jeff Bachman\, Cohen Endowed C
 hair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Cohen Institute Specialist.The 
 webinar is free and open to everyone\, but advanced registration is requir
 ed.REGISTER HERE---Speaker Biography: William D. Hartung focuses on the a
 rms industry and US military budget. He was previously the director of the
  Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy and the 
 co-director of the Center’s Sustainable Defense Task Force. Bill is the 
 co-author\, with Ben Freeman\, of the recently released The Trillion Dolla
 r War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign W
 ars and Bankrupts Us at Home. He is also the author of Prophets of War: Lo
 ckheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Bo
 oks\, 2011) and the co-editor\, with Miriam Pemberton\, of Lessons from Ir
 aq: Avoiding the Next War (Paradigm Press\, 2008). And Weapons for All (Ha
 rperCollins\, 1995) is a critique of US arms sales policies from the Nixon
  through Clinton administrations. Bill previously directed programs at the
  New America Foundation and the World Policy Institute. He has been a feat
 ured expert on national security issues on CBS 60 Minutes\, NBC Nightly Ne
 ws\, the PBS Newshour\, CNN\, Fox News\, and scores of local\, regional\, 
 and international TV and radio outlets.This event is hosted by the Cohen I
 nstitute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College as part
  of our ongoing series of Critical Response Events. These events are meant
  to spotlight ongoing or emerging crises across the globe. Speakers in thi
 s series represent a wide range of scholarly research and views\; our gues
 ts' perspectives should not be taken as representative of the Cohen Instit
 ute or Keene State College as a whole.
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
URL:http://www.keene.edu/news/events/detail/23640/
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