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<div align="center"><b>Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights
and Justice<br><br>
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<u>Negotiation with the Colombian Paramilitaries and Transitional
Justice: Asymmetry, Symmetry or War Strategy?<br>
</u>Mauricio Romero, </b>Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, Colombia<br>
<b>Thursday November 13, 2003<br>
</b>5:00-6:30 p.m.<br>
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street) <b><i>***PLEASE NOTE ROOM
CHANGE***<br><br>
</i><u>Forum on Accountability, Impunity and Governance in
India<br>
</u>Saturday November 15, 2003<br>
</b>3:00-6:00 p.m.<br>
Location: 1-190<br>
Panelists: <b>Ram Narayan Kumar, </b>author of <i>Reduced to Ashes: The
Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab<br>
</i><b>Rajdeep Sardesai, </b>Managing Editor, New Delhi Television<br>
<b>Teesta Setalvad, </b>Editor, Communalism Combat, and 2003 Recipient of
the Nuremburg Human Rights Award<br>
<b>Siddharth Varadarajan, </b>Deputy Chief of the News Bureau, <i>Times
of India<br>
</i>Moderator: <b>Balakrishnan Rajagopal, </b>Director of the MIT Program
on Human Rights and Justice (on leave 2003-04)<br><br>
<b><u>Can the Judiciary Prevent Massive Human Rights Abuses? Experience
from India<br>
</u>Justice Verma,</b> former Chief Justice of the Indian Supreme Court
and former Chair of the National Human Rights Commission<br>
<b>Monday November 17, 2003<br>
</b>12:15-1:30 p.m.<br>
Location: E38-615<br><br>
<b><u>Program on Human Rights and Justice Internship Information
Session<br>
</u>Thursday November 20, 2003<br>
</b>5:00-6:30 p.m.<br>
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street)<br>
Deadline for Summer 2004 proposals: <b>February 20, 2004</b>.<br>
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<div align="center"><b><u>Other Human Rights Opportunities in the MIT
Community<br><br>
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Sudan's Peace Process Event this Spring<br>
</b>Interested in collaborating with other students in the area to
organize a conference on the Sudan peace process this spring? There will
be a planning meeting this Sunday November 9 at 5:00 at the Fletcher
School. For directions and more info, contact: Jay Balasubramanian
<Jayshree.Balasubramanian@tufts.edu> or call him at
617-838-0251.<br><br>
<b>Northwestern University to Host Student Conference on Human Rights
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April 23-25, 2004<br>
</b>A travel stipend, housing, meals and local transportation will be
provided to participants. <b>Applications are due December 1</b> and are
available at
<a href="http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/humanrights/">http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/humanrights/</a>.
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<b>Graduating Seniors: Interested in serving as a Research Fellow at the
Carnegie Endowment for Peace in Washington D.C.? </b>Applications are due
at CIS 12/15/03.
<a href="http://www.ceip.org/files/about/about_Junior.asp">http://www.ceip.org/files/about/about_Junior.asp<br><br>
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Susan Frick<br>
Program Assistant<br>
Program on Human Rights and Justice<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
E38-277, 292 Main Street<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307<br>
Tel: 617 258 7614<br>
Fax: 617 452 3962<br>
Email: fricks@mit.edu<br>
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