Title: Diplomacy and Nonproliferation

Speaker: Ambassador Avis Bohlen, the American Academy of Diplomacy

Cost: $15 Members; $20 Non-members & Guests

This event is presented in collaboration with the American Academy of Diplomacy.

The prospect of Iran becoming a nuclear weapons state, the possibility that a terrorist group will gain access to nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction, or the prospect of an increasingly destabilized Pakistan—a nuclear armed country—all make avoiding nuclear proliferation one of America’s highest priorities. How can diplomacy prevent the spread of nuclear weapons? Specifically what progress has president Obama and the administration made in negotiating a successor to START I treaty with Russia? What impact, if any will an evolving U.S.-Russia relationships have on an Iranian nuclear program? What are the lessons to be learned from the experience of negotiating a successor to START I treaty, and is there a disconnect between the administration’s “Global Zero” nonproliferation agenda and global realities?

To discuss these issues, CFIS/AIA and the American Academy of Diplomacy present a lecture featuring Ambassador Avis Bohlen. Ambassador Bohlen served for 25 years as a career Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State, and was the Assistant Secretary for Arms Control (1999-2002) and Ambassador to Bulgaria (1996-1999). She also held several positions within the State Department’s Bureau of European Affairs, including Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe in charge of Security Issues. Ambassador Avis Bohlen currently teaches at the Georgetown University. She will discuss, among other things, the unique role the diplomacy plays in working towards reducing the nuclear arsenals of the US and Russia, and what possible limits to diplomacy exist vis-à-vis Iran.

Student attendance is FREE with proper identification.

Purchase your tickets by calling the CIR Office 982-4931 or by using this secure website. (Note that, if purchasing tickets here, you will need to return to this page or the calendar multiple times to add tickets with differing Fee Types to your shopping cart.)

Fee Type: Non-member/Guest Ticket ($20)Member Ticket ($15)

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The Santa Fe Council on International Relations (CIR) is a non-profit member-driven organization dedicated to broader understanding of and engagement in world affairs. Members enjoy meeting foreign visitors, participating in discussions, attending lectures and other benefits. CIR counts almost 700 internationally-minded members. Shouldn’t you be one too?

This event is FREE but RSVPs are requested to the CIR Office. Please include your name, contact info and number of people attending in your group. Details and confirmation will be sent upon RSVP.

The plan for these dinners would be that they would take place once a month at members’ homes. Members would provide their homes for groups of 7-8 people on a revolving basis. The make-up of the dinner groups would keep changing so that CIR members would get to break bread with a widening group of people.

There would be no cost involved for these dinners but participants would be asked to bring their fair share of food and drink.

Let us know if you are  interested in  these dinners.  Please email Steve Kutay, Membership Committee Chairman by March 26.

Topic: Spheres of Influence: The United States, Latin America and the Policy

Speaker: Alexa Schirtzinger

Cost: $26/CIR Members 
         $32/Non-members & Guests

Alexa Schirtzinger is a staff writer with the Santa Fe Reporter. She has lived and worked in Spain, Uruguay, Honduras and El Salvador, where she spent two years as an agroforestry volunteer with the Peace Corps (2003-05). She has a B.A. in Environmental Geology and Spanish from Dartmouth College and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. She has traveled extensively in every country in Central America except Belize and been lost in more small villages than she’d like to admit. Though currently settled in Santa Fe, she returns frequently to visit family and relatives in Central America. Her last visit, to Honduras and El Salvador, was in 2009.

Through CIR’s Student Outreach Support program, interested students and teachers are invited to attend World Affairs Discussion events for free.  You can donate to this fund by selecting Student Outreach Support at the bottom of the Shopping Cart. 

Purchase your tickets by calling the Office 982-4931 or by using this secure website. (Note that, if purchasing tickets here, you will need to return to this page or the calendar multiple times to add tickets with differing Fee Types to your shopping cart.)

Fee Type: Member Ticket ($26)Non-member/Guest ($32)

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Beginning March 16 and running through June 23, CIR will be the beneficiary of once a month donations from local restaurants.  But the final donation is based on the number of diners who attend, so we need your participation.  Gather your friends, whether CIR members or not, and enjoy dinner, drinks or just light hors d’oeuvres on one of the dates shown below.  You’re certain to greet CIR friends doing the same in a social setting that will help support CIR’s mission.  Eat your way to promoting Engagement in World Affairs!  Reservations highly recommended. 

Tuesday, March 16

Osteria d’Assisi
986-5858
58 South Federal Place
Downtown Santa Fe across from the Federal Building
Dinner from 5:00 pm

Tuesday, April 20

Capitol Grill
471-6800
3462 Zafarano Drive
In the San Isidro Plaza directly across from the Regal Santa Fe Stadium 14 movie theatres
Dinner from 5:00 to 9:00 pm

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May – date and location to be determined

Wednesday, June 23

Vanessie
982-9966
434 W. San Francisco St.
Four blocks from the plaza and 1 block west of the Hilton Hotel; parking in lot or on Water Street
Dinner from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm