The form of burning beheadings and raping, sometimes of children. Is a betrayal of the islamic tradition. It is forbidden in custom. It is forbidden in International Humanitarian law geneva conventions and previously to that or prior to that the haig regulations. And Human Experience it is forbidden period. What virtue or courage is there in beheading someone defenseless, raping a young girl . Does a person who calls themselves a fighter believe this is, this is a definition of courage . These people are an smile eighted annihilated conscience are so far outside of Human Experience. Young adherents seeking to join them must know what they purport to join is not some adventure. Its a road to destroyed, utterly criminal existence. If youre looking for some meaning in your life, do good deeds. That will be your salvation. This is the First Official trip for a high commissioner for human rights to washington in eight years. It has been important for me, and my office to reengage with the a
Its my great pleasure and honor to welcome all of you here. With respect to our guest of honor, ambassador rice i want to welcome her back to this premises. She is a former colleague of martin index and mine both here at the Brookings Institution and in government during the 1990s. And special welcome to her mom, how about that . Her mom has come out [applause] to hear her daughter speak on a very important subject. I have to say just a quick word on lois rice. Im quite sure 99 year history there has only been one motherdaughter team both senior fell lows. One in Foreign Policy and susan and lois in economic studies and lois continues to be an important part of the since staougs. As all know, susan is here to talk about the National Security strategy for 2015 and into the future. The origins goes back to the aftermath of world war ii and the dawn the cold war. Today the big challenge facing the United States and its partners and allies in the International Community is not contain the.
But we also believe we are not doing them a disservice. We are doing them a service. They may be sometimes uncomfortable with what we say, but all of us are pushing in the same direction and that is for the betterment of the people of the country concerned. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] we are looking for them to have the full protections the law provides for. Thank you. Just one last question. What do you think of the escalation . Thank you very much for that question. The office which i lead has a Monitoring Mission in ukraine that has been in place really almost since the crisis. Since the crisis began in the eastern part of the country. We have periodic reports we make available to the international community, and yes we discuss ukraine with a large number of countries. Nationally it is of great concern to the international community. This is a very serious crisis. And we have seen, of course even though we have, all of us have cause for further complianc
Adviser for reconciliation to iraqi forces in baghdad in 2008. Before we start, just a quick reminder, please put your mobile phones on vibrate. We are live on cspan today, apparently. So well start with mike knights. Thank you very much for coming today. Its great to see such a full room. And my colleagues on the panel with me, its a real honor to be alongside them. So im going to talk today about some of the themes coming out of our new study. The long haul rebooting u. S. Security corporation with iraq. And i want to go through the study in detail. What im going to do maybe is to try and pick out some of the i think the key issues and quandaries that come out of our Security Cooperation with iraqi state, with the kurdish peshmerga, and our coexistence at the moment alongside the Popular Mobilization units that play such a significant role in the war so far in iraq. Now, just to run through a couple of graphics quickly, which are in the study, which is available in pdf form online fo
Here and talked with warren, you said you were in the middle of a transition to an impact Decision Maker more effectively, is this book the culmination of this . This book is a big part of that. Yes, i learned a lesson particularly working in conflict areas, and there is, that is where you really need to have government engagement that if you dont impact policy, you know, if you are working you can have great people but if you are wrking under really poor policy they are not going to succeed so we really started to embrace advocacy as part of our tool. Rose and you believe that we can do a significantly better job at trying to eliminate poverty . Absolutely. I think one of the things is we have been living too much in history, and, yo, you know, technology has changed but also i think thinking has to change and thinking is changing, you know, the younger people in philanthropy today think differently today, they are more innovative and more focused and those people that are thinking an