"World Order After Viet Nam"
Webinar presentation by Dr. Richard Falk, comment by Dr. Christian Appy
Monday, January 26, 7 p.m. ET, 4 p.m. PT
Register by clicking here https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4kJxeTzVSzC3_v7ibetAUw
Richard Falk is Albert G.
Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University where
he was an active member of the faculty for 40 years (1961-2001). Chair
of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University London(2021-2025).
Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied
Palestine (2008-2014). His most recent books written in collaboration
with Hans von Sponeck are Liberating the UN: Realism with Hope(2024); Genocide
in Gaza: Global Voices of Conscience co-edited with Ahmet Davutoglu and Patriotism
to the Earth written in association with Sasha Milonova (2025). His
memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim was
published in 2021. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several
times since 2008. He currently serves as President of the Gaza Peoples Tribunal.
Christian
Appy is director of the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy and a
professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he has
received the Chancellor’s Medal, the Distinguished Teaching Award, and the
Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award. He is the author of three books about the
Vietnam War--American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National
Identity (Viking, 2015), Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All
Sides (Viking, 2003), and Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and
Vietnam (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). He is currently working
on a book about Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
Doug Hostetter (moderator) was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and chose to do his alternative service working for Mennonite Central Committee in Tam Ky, Quang Nam, from 1966 - 1969. Doug returned to Vietnam in November and December 1970 with the US National Student Association delegation that negotiated the People’s Peace Treaty (PPT). The People’s Peace Treaty was signed in Saigon by representatives of the Saigon Student Union and brought to Hanoi where representatives of the South Vietnam Liberation Student Union, the Vietnam National Student Union and the US National Student Association signed it. Upon return to the US, Doug joined the staff of the People’s Peace Treaty national office in New York City, which, in cooperation with the US National Student Association, introduced the PPT to students in colleges and universities across the United States. In the spring of 1971, the PPT was ratified by almost 200 US colleges and universities -- hundreds of thousands of US students declaring their peace with student in Vietnam. Doug was active broadly in the US anti-Vietnam War movement. He was the Treasurer for Medical Aid for Indochina which after 1972 became the Bach Mai Hospital Fund and after 1975 became Friendshipment. Doug is the NGO Representative for Pax Christi International at the United Nations in New York. Earlier in his career Doug was as the Director of the Mennonite Central Committee United Nations Office, the Director of the New England Office of the American Friends Service Committee; the Director of the US Fellowship of Reconciliation; and the Resource Specialist for Peace for the United Methodist Office for the United Nations. Doug has published widely on the issues of war, peace and nonviolence, and is a contributing author to The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar movement.
