“Liberating Libya, Strangling Syria: Intervening for Human Rights and Protection”

George A. Lopez studies the problems of state violence, especially economic sanctions, gross violations of human rights, and ethics and the use of force.

He has co-authored more than 25 articles and book chapters, as well as five books  His research, with David Cortwright, detailing the unlikely presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq appeared before the war in Arms Control Today and was further articulated after the war in a piece in Foreign Affairs.

Lopez has served in an advisory capacity to a number of organizations. He has served as chair of the Selection Committee of the Research and Writing Grants Committee of the MacArthur Foundation’s Program in Peace and International Cooperation, Interim Executive Director and board chair for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, senior research associate at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and Jennings Randolph Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He also served on the UN Panel of Experts for monitoring and implementing UN Sanctions on North Korea.

Professor Lopez has also been recognized repeatedly as a fine teacher by Notre Dame University.  His Ph.D. in International Relations is from Syracuse University.

Free and open to the public

Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Reception at 6 p.m. in the Fetzer Center lobby
Lecture at 7 p.m.
Fetzer Center, Putney Auditorium