With this years lukas fridays ceremony our program is a little bit of the introduction and i hope an interesting discussion with our three winners and then with more celebration to come so thanks for all of you to share this part of the evening with us first i will tell you about this prize is you may not be as acquainted with it as we are but this is a prize in memory of tony lucas who inspired my generation the first time we started to taken college what we wanted to write and our generation grew up with a narrative nonfiction searching about social issues and Common Ground so when he passed a lot of people were inspired by his life to create this prius this is where the enterprise began it has expanded gradually for the Senior Executive in the netherlands at the time of his death in the 1997 as a reporter of serious history his children established the prize as part of a the lucas fridays project and his family has generally underwritten the prize since the inception in 1998 his wif
For international peace. We are trying to show you as much as we can before things get started. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming. First of all we are into the season where the city tends to empty out, so we are all delighted that you are here to discuss a problem that, you know, is arguably as important in the us as it is around the world where we will focus on it. Lets me briefly introduce myself and who will be conversing with today. Im sarah cheneys. Simon is going to kick us off, simon taylor who is one of the founders of Global Witness, which is in my view one of the most innovative and effective organizations working in the space around the world and its very interestingly combined with advocacy with extremelyadvo regressed investigations and thats one of the things we will talk about today is a recent report by Global Witness about shells activities in nigeria. He also helped galvanize the coalition of Civil
Of all we are into the season where this city tends to india and so we are already delighted that you are here to discuss a problem that is arguably as important here in the United States as it is around the world where we will be focusing on it. Let me just very briefly introduce myself and who will be conversant with today. Im sarah chayes. Carnegie endowment for International Peace in the democracy and rule of law program, not to the climate and energy program. Simon is going to kick us off. Simon taylor who is one of the founders of Global Witness which is in mighty one of the most innovative and effective organizations working in this space around the world, and it is very interesting combines advocacy with extremely rigorous investigations, and thats one of the things that will be talking about today is a recent report by Global Witness about shells activity in nigeria. He also helped galvanize a coalition of suicide organizations of 40 countries worldwide, working for more accou
A knight chair it just like the noble prize in journalism education, so i am really glad that she is here. I will tell you more about diane in a moment, but first as i traditionally do, we will discuss the discussion. An underlying theme we have been having, the background for all of the discussions in the amphitheater, has been, how the news business, and the Civic Society can do its part. To give us the information and the values and the perspective that we need, as a Democratic Society to find our way. An underlying theme we have been having, the background for all of the discussions in the amphitheater, has been, how the news business, and the Civic Society can do its part. To give us the information and the values and the perspective that we need, as a Democratic Society to find our way. I was thinking of that this morning during nancy gibbss interesting conversation with davidandreli. Ill have a brief brief quiz based on this discussion. They were talking about the difficulty of
A knight chair it just like the noble prize in journalism education, so i am really glad that she is here. I will tell you more about diane in a moment, but first as i traditionally do, we will discuss the discussion. An underlying theme we have been having, the background for all of the discussions in the amphitheater, has been, how the news business, and the Civic Society can do its part. To give us the information and the values and the perspective that we need, as a Democratic Society to find our way. An underlying theme we have been having, the background for all of the discussions in the amphitheater, has been, how the news business, and the Civic Society can do its part. To give us the information and the values and the perspective that we need, as a Democratic Society to find our way. I was thinking of that this morning during nancy gibbss interesting conversation with davidandreli. Ill have a brief brief quiz based on this discussion. They were talking about the difficulty of