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Bosnia and Kosovo: The Future of Peacekeeping The Hon. John K. Menzies Former U. S. Chief of Mission to Kosovo and Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Ambassador Menzies has a distinguished 21-year career as a foreign service officer. Between 2001 and 2002, he was Chief of Mission to Kosovo, where he led negotiations to form a government, forged compromise between political parties, developed a post-war economy, and helped organize and monitor the first democratic elections. Earlier, Menzies served as a top advisor on Balkan policy for the Clinton and Bush administrations. Between 1997 and 1998, Ambassador Menzies was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace where he led the Balkan working group. As Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1994-1996, he participated in the Dayton Peace talks and oversaw U.S. post-war assistance. Ambassador Menzies held a variety of other foreign service posts in Hungary, East Germany and Bulgaria, where he worked to promote democracy in the post-Cold War period. He also served in the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York and to the office of the Coordinator for the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) program. In the early 1990's, Menzies founded the American University in Bulgaria. After leaving the foreign service, Ambassador Menzies served as the 16th president of Graceland University, a liberal arts institution in Lamoni, Iowa from 2002 to 2006. In January 2007, he was appointed Dean of the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. The Whitehead School prepares students from around the world to become leaders in a global society. Its innovative graduate and undergraduate programs provide 600 students with the critical skills and knowledge needed for international careers in public service, business, law and the nonprofit sector. Through a unique alliance with the United Nations Association of the United States of America, students are exposed to today's leaders and policymakers while experiencing diplomacy at work. This is event is sponsored by the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, and is co-hosted by the Department of Political Science. Date: Friday, January 25, 2008 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location:Flying A Meeting Room, UCEN |