Padraig O'Malley speaks at JFK Library 2008

"The Helsinki Talks A Step Forward for Iraq or More Time Outs? "
Thursday, May 8, 2008 6:00 pm Kennedy Library

Visit: http://www.mccormack.umb.edu/chair/rep_peace_baghdad1.php

To Support the Moakley Chair for Peace and Reconciliation: https://www.umb.edu/ua/giving/give_online.php

Padraig OMalley is director of the Iraq Project, a collaboration among the UMASS John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, Tufts Institute of Global Leadership, and Crisis Management Initiative of Helsinki. In September 2007, the Iraq Project convened a much heralded conference of Iraqis in Helsinki, Finland. It began to shape a framework for negotiations. The second round of talks with a far broader and deeper representation was concluded in April 2008. Prof. O'Malley reports on the Helsinki process and the Helsinki II Principles and Mechanisms that resulted.

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