Cornell faculty, a U.N. official and a survivor of the Rwanda genocide reflected on the 20th anniversary of the catastrophe on campus April 18.

For the first time, Cornell students can spend a semester abroad in Cuba, conducting research in the life sciences and taking courses at the University of Havana beginning this August.

On Tuesday, April 29th, at 4:30PM in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Douglas Rutzen, President and CEO of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, will give a talk entitled "Defending Civil Society and Peaceful Protest Around the World." The talk is part of the Einaudi Center's ongoing Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series and cosponsored by the Cornell Law School.

Douglas Rutzen is President and CEO of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), which has worked in over 100 countries to develop the legal framework for civil society, public participation, and philanthropy.  Mr. Rutzen is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches international civil society law. He is frequently called upon to advise heads of state and foreign ministers on civil society law. Under Mr. Rutzen’s leadership, ICNL received a 2012 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, the organizational analogue to MacArthur’s “genius award” for individuals.

On Thursday, March 27^th, 2014 at 4:30PM in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Andrew C. Weber, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs and Cornell alum, gave a talk entitled “Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction.” The talk was part of the Einaudi Center’s ongoing Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.

After a brief introduction from Einaudi Center Director and Vice Provost for International Affairs Fredrik Logevall, Weber framed his discussion by displaying a quote from President Obama at the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Symposium: “We simply cannot allow the 21^st century to be darkened by the worst weapons of the 20^th century.”

Is the United States in retreat as a global power? And does it really matter if we are? Those questions were the launching point April 1 for a wide-ranging conversation in Washington, D.C., featuring three prominent Cornell foreign policy experts. Their consensus answer to the first question was a qualified no; to the second, an unqualified yes..