Events
PETER GASTROW at the Columbia Seminar on the Problem of Peace
The Columbia Seminar on the Problem of Peace presents:
"Transnational Organized Crime, Fragile States, and the Sahel Region"
A talk by Peter Gastrow
Free and open to the public
Peter Gastrow is director of programs at the International Peace Institute. His
research and policy work focuses on transnational organized crime and related
threats and involves a review of the current international framework for
countering organized crime. He forms part of the Coping with Crisis program and
focuses on multilateral responses to new transnational security threats. Peter
joined IPI in 2009 from South Africa, where he was Cape Town director of the
Institute for Security Studies and served as an advocate of the Supreme Court
of South Africa.
The talk is free and open to the public, but please register by writing to saw2156@columbia.edu.
An optional dinner will precede the talk. We will dine in Columbia's Faculty
House at 6:30 pm. Meals, buffet style, cost $25 (cash or check), and wine comes
compliments of the seminar. Register for dinner at saw2156@columbia.edu. If you sign up,
please provide two days' notice if you cannot attend.
Yours,
Roy Lee
Seminar Chair
royslee@optonline.net
Stephen Wertheim
Seminar Rapporteur
saw2156@columbia.edu