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International Advocate for Peace Award Acceptance Speech President Jimmy Carter \\jciprod01\productn\C\CAC\14-3\CAC314.txt unknown Seq: 1 30-APR-13 15:56 INTERNATIONAL ADVOCATE FOR PEACE AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER On April 10, 2013, the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution presented its annual International Advocate for Peace Award to Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States. What follows is a transcription of his public address at the Law School, entitled “America as Global Mediator.” DEAN MATTHEW DILLER: Good afternoon, ladies and gentle- men, and good afternoon, President Carter. I want to welcome you all to the 13th annual International Advocate for Peace Award ceremony of the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. Today, the students of the Journal will present the International Advocate for Peace Award to President Jimmy Carter. [Applause]. I under- stand that you were just back from a trip back from Myanmar, and I am impressed that you were just on the other side of the world on Sunday and have chosen to come up from Atlanta to receive this award today. [Applause]. I would also like to acknowledge and welcome Mr. Leon Charney and his wife, Tzili Charney. Mr. Char- ney is a member of the Cardozo Board of Overseers, and played an important role in the Camp David Accords as an adviser to Presi- dent Carter. [Applause]. In a moment, I will turn the podium over to the students who edit the Journal of Conflict Resolution and to Professor Lela Love, who is the Director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution. The students will make their presentation of the Award, and then President Carter will make remarks. And my understanding is that the editors have selected questions from the students in our audience, and President Carter has agreed to an- swer them. I know that a number of President Carter’s views are extremely controversial and that some may have strong disagree- ments with the President. In the tradition of Cardozo Law and of all great universities, we expect that President Carter will be re- ceived respectfully and listened to carefully. As future lawyers, we believe in discourse, civility, discussion, and freedom of expression. The Journal of Conflict Resolution has a long tradition in this area, and I know that its leadership has already reached out to those who have expressed concerns about the event today, and has al- ready initiated conversation and dialogue. In that spirit, there will be another forum at the School in the spring that will provide an- other perspective on President Carter’s conflict resolution work. I 923 \\jciprod01\productn\C\CAC\14-3\CAC314.txt unknown Seq: 2 30-APR-13 15:56 924 CARDOZO J. OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION [Vol. 14:923 have invited Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School to participate, and he has accepted. That said, the Dispute Resolution Program is one of this school’s flagship programs. It engages lawyers and law students in problem-solving and mediation techniques that can lead to the res- olution of disputes in non-zero-sum ways. You guys probably have a better way of explaining that. In addition, our conflict resolution Journal is one of the leaders in this important field. And Cardozo offers numerous classes and clinics in arbitration, negotiation, and mediation, as well as a Certificate Program and Masters in the field. Professor Lela Love, who is an internationally known leader in dispute resolution, directs the program. This January, Professor Love, along with Professor Leslie Salzman, led a group of 18 stu- dents to South Africa to study conflict resolution. And Professor Love and Professor Salzman have led similar trips around the world in the past. Last year, Professor Love won the International Academy of Mediators Lifetime Achievement Award and has won numerous other awards for her pioneering work in the field. And at this point, I’d like to introduce Professor Love. PROFESSOR LELA LOVE: Thank you so much to our Dean, who is a wonderful supporter of all our programs, and has been just great throughout this event. What a privilege to be here with Pres- ident Carter and to welcome not only Journal students but our friends, alumni, and supporters of our Dispute Resolution Program to the event. I wanted to very briefly take a trip back in the history of this Award, because I think some of the people who began the Award are here. This Award was started by students in the year 2000, when the first IAP was awarded to Richard Holbrooke. That was followed the next year with the presentation of the Award to President Bill Clinton. This was then followed in 2002 by Senator George Mitchell and Seeds for Peace. The point I’d like to make is that, since the very start, the awardees have been phenomenal. And we only need to look at the leader in the conflict resolution world sitting to my right. Our Program, as Dean Diller said, has gotten a fair amount of recognition. It’s fair to say that our stu- dents who started this Award, our students who started the Jour- nal, our students who have pressured me and the school to enter into international competitions are the reason our school has been recognized. And it is the leadership of now not only students but also alumni that keeps us out front. We’re lucky to have Lester Levy here with us today, an alum of Cardozo and one of the foun- \\jciprod01\productn\C\CAC\14-3\CAC314.txt unknown Seq: 3 30-APR-13 15:56 2013] ADVOCATE FOR PEACE AWARD 925 ders of JAMS. For those of you who don’t know what JAMS is, they’re probably the leading provider of ADR services. Today, we’re here to honor Jimmy Carter to receive the Inter- national Advocate for Peace Award. I wanted just to read you why the people who award the Nobel Peace Prize honored him. It was for his “decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to in- ternational conflict, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” As you’ll hear in a moment, the students on our Journal were similarly inspired to rec- ognize a lifetime of work to promote negotiated and peaceful reso- lution of conflict. I have a personal thank-you, though, as an educator. As an educator, one frequently finds oneself having to explain mediation or the difference between mediation and arbi- tration, and there’s nothing better than an example that everybody can immediately understand and relate to. And the Camp David Accords, Jimmy Carter’s work there, obviously challenging work of facing and then resolving what was then seen as an intractable conflict, is a most moving example for folks about what mediation involves. So I thank you not only for the example, but for the un- believable work that it took to produce that example. We have here Leon Charney, a member of our Board of Overseers. Earlier today we saw a documentary he was featured in, Backdoor Chan- nels, which shows his work in helping to facilitate the Camp David Accords. One of the things Leon Charney did in the back channels was to show what an important role lawyers have as visionaries, as creative articles—as I believe you put it Mr. Charney—in helping along the resolution of disputes. So, I’m not going to say more, because Brian Farkas is going to introduce President Carter. I would however like to introduce Brian Farkas. [Laughter.] It’s been a challenging job to be Editor- in-Chief this year, with the IAP Award of course, but with other endeavors as well. Brian did way more than the usual. He did two symposia, not one. Instead of having two issues of the Journal this year, he had three. He reconstructed our website. And he moved the Journal up in the rankings! This is important for an academic endeavor. Maybe equally important to all that, Brian is a student in the Mediation Clinic. He has, as you’ll see in a moment, a beau- tiful ready smile, a way with people. We were recently in Chicago together at the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Sec- tion Annual Conference with a group—not only Brian but a group of students from the Journal; I cannot tell you how many people came up to me and said, “How do you do it at Cardozo? Your \\jciprod01\productn\C\CAC\14-3\CAC314.txt unknown Seq: 4 30-APR-13 15:56 926 CARDOZO J. OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION [Vol. 14:923 students are so amazing.” So, with that, I’d like to give the podium to Brian Farkas. BRIAN FARKAS: So, my mother is here in the audience, and I think you made one Jewish mother incredibly happy just now. [Laughter.] Thank you all for coming here today, on behalf of the entire staff of the Journal of Conflict Resolution—the Editorial Board, the Symposium team who worked so hard to make today’s event happen, I really appreciate it. I know the Security can be tiring, but we’re in for a really big treat today. So, first a word about who we are. The Journal of Conflict Resolution, as Lela said, is part of this phenomenal Conflict Reso- lution Program that she has sort of pioneered and invented here at Cardozo. The Journal publishes on what you might actually con- sider to be kind of non-legal topics. For example, most law reviews will publish on areas like appellate review of particular statutes, courtroom advocacy, and constitutional litigation.
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