Mind Games: Saddam Hussein was Caught in a Hole: are terrorists digging a bigger one for the West?

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Duration: 1hr 45m

Moderator: A/Prof Tina Dolgopol

Tina is an Associate Professor of Law at Flinders. She has published in the fields of human rights, children's rights and women in armed conflict. From 1997 to 2000, she took part in the work of the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice to improve the gender provisions in the Statute establishing the International Criminal Court, as well as the Rules of Procedure and the Elements of Crime Annexes to the Statute. In December 2000, she was one of the Chief Prosecutors for the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal in Tokyo. She is on the Advisory Council of the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, an organisation that seeks to ensure that the workings of the International Criminal Court encompass the rights and concerns of women.

Speaker: Les Luck, BA (Hons) 1971 Flin

Les is the First Assistant Secretary, Americas' Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and, until recently, served as Australia's Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism. He has also been head of the International Security Division, with policy responsibility for arms control and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, counter-terrorism and aspects of Australia's strategic relationships. For three years until April 2002, Les was the Australian Ambassador for Disarmament and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, dealing with international security issues in the Conference on Disarmament and negotiations to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention and conventional weapons regimes. He chaired the 2001 Review Conference of the Inhumane Weapons Convention. As Ambassador to the UN in Geneva he dealt extensively with human rights, indigenous issues, humanitarian, refugees and people-smuggling issues, and with the range of UN Specialised Agencies based in Geneva. He has been in DFAT since 1971 with postings to Australian diplomatic missions in Geneva, Singapore, Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Vienna and Bangkok.

Panellists:

Professor Andrew Goldsmith

Andrew is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Flinders. His insights into current security threats in the world are partly shaped by overseas air travel for research and conferences, and his current Linkage research with the Australian Federal Police, which includes travel to the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste. He has spent a long time thinking and writing on policing and security issues and these issues continue to exercise a disproportionate amount of his waking hours. He does have a family who are patient, and a slightly obsessive interest in '70s music. At times, he would like to be Ross Hannaford or Keith Richard.

Emeritus Professor Riaz Hassan AM

Riaz Hassan is Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology, Flinders University. He holds a PhD from Ohio State University and an MA from the University of Dacca (Bangladesh). His research interests include projects on sociology of housing, demographic behaviour, social stratification, sociology of suicide, ethnicity, sociology of Islam/Muslim societies, and sociology of euthanasia. He is currently researching the causes of global rise of suicide terrorism. Riaz has published countless papers and presented at conferences throughout the world. He is considered one of Australia's foremost researchers on Islamic society.

Anne Morris, DipNgSt 1987, BNg 1988, MPHC 2001 Flin

Anne has a Bachelor of Nursing Education from Sturt College of Advanced Education and a Master of Primary Health Care from Flinders. From 1994 until 2005 she provided outstanding, dedicated leadership and service to CARE International's humanitarian work in some of the world's most difficult and dangerous crises in the Sudan, Iraq, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, the West Bank, and Gaza. In the Sudan, Anne led CARE International's operational response to the famine in Bahr el Ghazal in 1998, overseeing the setting-up of famine relief centres providing emergency nutrition and other life saving services to the villagers. Anne also led CARE's emergency team pre-positioned to respond to the expected humanitarian consequences of the 2003 Iraq war. As country director for CARE in Rwanda, Anne was responsible for leading, amongst others, projects in non formal youth education, psycho social rehabilitation for orphans and vulnerable children, HIV/AIDS prevention and care, and in economic development. In Rwanda, she took a personal interest in helping child-headed households. In 2005 during a visit to Rwanda, former US President Bill Clinton personally thanked Anne Morris for helping the Clinton Foundation, and particularly its HIV/AIDS Initiative that strives to make treatment more affordable and to implement large-scale integrated care, treatment, and prevention programs. Anne was awarded the 2006 Convocation Medallist.

Dr Andrew O'Neil, BA(Hons) 1992, MA(IntRel) 1996, PhD 1999 Flin

Andrew is senior lecturer and Director of the Graduate Program in International Relations at Flinders. Before taking up an academic position in 2000, he worked as a strategic analyst in the North Asia and Global Issues Branch of Australia's Defence Intelligence Organisation. His main research interests include global security and strategy, Asian regional security, and Australian foreign and defence policy. He has published in a range of refereed academic journals and is the author of several book chapters, and is completing a book for Palgrave Macmillan with the working title Nuclear Proliferation in Northeast Asia: The Quest for Security . In 2005, he was appointed by Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs as a member of the National Consultative Committee for International Security Issues.

 

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