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UNC Faculty Panel to Discuss Iraq War
CHAPEL HILL -- Five top faculty members at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will hold a panel discussion
on Tuesday evening (April 1) about the war with Iraq.
The event, "The Iraq War after 10 Days,"
will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Union Auditorium. It is free
and open to the public.
Speakers and their topics will be:* Dr. Richard
H. Kohn, professor of history and chair of the UNC Curriculum in Peace,
War & Defense, which is sponsoring the event, "The Military
Campaign from the American Perspective."
• Arthur Mark Weisburd, professor of law,
"Is it Legal and Does that Matter?"
• Dr. Douglas Maclean, professor of philosophy, "Is it Ethical
and Moral: Ends and Means?"
• Dr. James Stimson, Raymond
Dawson professor of political science, "Will the American People
Continue to Support It?"
• Dr. Michael Hunt, Emerson professor of history, "Implications
for American Foreign Policy."
"Our curriculum has among its chief missions
informing the university and local communities on issues of peace,
war and national defense, and this panel means to help accomplish
that mission," said Kohn. "Carolina has a number of distinguished
faculty with knowledge and expertise in various topics and disciplines
relevant to this war, and we want to engage with the university as
a whole and the public in a helpful way."
UNC Chancellor James C. Moeser has encouraged faculty
to use the war as an opportunity to educate and expand perspectives,
he said. The panel consists of faculty members who could talk on an
evening when a suitable room also was available. Others with different
expertise and perspectives could not participate Tuesday but might
be able to soon.
"We hope students, faculty, staff, alumni
and the general public will attend," Kohn said. "My sense
is that we are deluged with reports about what is happening but in
bits and pieces, with little about the larger picture of the war,
its context and its implications.
"At this early point, our judgments are liable to be preliminary and perhaps will be revised on the basis of later events and information," the historian said. "But we believe very strongly in the value of trying to help the university as a whole -- and our community -- understand what is happening and what it means."
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Contact: David Williamson, (919) 962-8596
