The Cord Weekly (October 14, 1999)
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- -Thursday, October 14, 1999 * Volume 40, Issue 9 riSionstiips f0|* iJLLa nc ers* T6 21 3 News 6 Opinion 12 Intern at ionalthe16StudentLife 18Cord Features 21 Sports 23 Entertainment 25 Arts 26 C lassifieds Dyer proves provocative Chris Pearce ing many of Ixiurier's own academ- ies; who are no doubt more familiar Thanks to the philanthropic, endeav- with Dyer's historical achievements ours of Wilfrid and Marion than would be students. Schvveit/.er, two long-time Laurier Despite the seemingly convoluted lecture attendees (Mrs. Schweitzer subject matter of Dyer's lecture, was herself', in fact, in attendance), dubbed 'Democratic Overdog: this years version of the lecture Strategy, Morality and Etiquette for series took on a world-class charac- the New Masters of the Universe', ter when it welcomed journalist, Dyer's articulate and lucid manner of columnist and broadcaster Gwynne speaking kept the lecture entirely Dyer to a lecture engagement in the comprehensible, and thus, thought- Maureen Forrester Recital I kill. provoking. After leaving an impact on series Dyer chose to discuss an emerg- patrons with the Peter Dalglish lec- ing phenomenon in international ture two weeks ago, series coordina- law, tracing the historical roots of tors had a tall order before them if sovereignty law and human rights they were to maintain the standard law from their birth up through their set by the first component of the contemporary application within the series. Attracting the likes of Dyer sphere of international relations; last week proved, addressing the without doubt, inherent contra- that they were up Our diction that osten- to the challenge. sibly exists A native of government between the oper- Newfou nd land, ation of the two Dyer has impres- "persuaded" branches of inter- sive academic cre- national law. dentials to his Indonesia to This contradic- name, including tion began after degrees from uni- "invite" the the "terrifying" versities in three f' w, y s experience of countries; among UN into World War 11 « them a Ph.D. in —»—* made way for the Military and Efast limor. birth of two dia- Middle Eastern metri c a 1 1 y CHERRY History from the opposed bodies of University of London. Dyer has also law; those protecting individual held academic positions with the human rights, and laws ensuring the CHRISTINE Royal Military Academy Sandhurst sovereignty of states. and "we have bullied and threatened Is potentially a dangerous process. utes to the "Dover" criteria, the prin- and Oxford University. Dyer began by introducing atten- another sovereign state into accept- Dyer believes that it is a "safe" time ciple that the US will not tolerate Dyers work in the media has dees to the notion that ours Ls indeed ing a peacekeeping force it had no to do it because, since the end of the extensive loss of life in peacekeeping seen him play an integral role in the an "interesting" epoch. desire to accept," again in support of Cold War, most countries of the efforts. production of several television and Ours is a time in which our coun- humanitarian goals. world have become democratic, and The Western leaders who radio documentaries. In the mid- try, along with its NATO counter- To emphasize his point about the democratic countries have over the ignored their responsibility in these 1980s, Dyers series entitled 'War' pails, has undertaken a radically level of seriousness to which the last 80 years of history not gone to regions are, for the most part, still in aired in over 45 countries. One new approach to international law. Canadian government has taken war with one another. power. Dye i - fee Is it was their resid- episode in particular received a According to Dyer with our human rights issues, Dyer men- And while mixed motives are ual guilt from ignoring their respon- nomination for an Academy Award, attack on Serbia, an attack in which tioned that in a speech at Harvard, implicit in this unprecedented set of sibility in Bosnia and Rwanda, where just one of the many awards Dyer Canadian planes dropped ten per Ait Eggleton, Canada's defease min- practices, as they are in any human over a million people died, that led has garnered for his work in jounal- cent of the bombs on a country ister, had gone as far as to say that relation, the motives inherent in the them to prevent similar occurences Lsm over the past twenty years. which posed absolutely no threat to in Serbia and East Timor, where the Dyer's most recent work includes a us, we deliberately infringed upon number of dead was limited to a 3-part television series titled the sovereign rights of Serbia in The end result is that matter of a few thousand. Quite 'Protection Force', concerning the order to prevent that country from frankly. Dyer Ls "glad they feel bad role of peacekeepers in Bosnia up grossly violating human rights by we've "changed the rules" about it," as it triggered a rapid reac- until 1995, and 'Millennium', a six- killing its own citizens. tion to the latest attempt to violate hour radio series about the new Our government went a step fur- in international law human rights by Milosevic - again - globed culture. ther last month when we "persuad- and the militias in Indonesia. Presently based in London ed" the Indonesian government to Interestingly enough. Dyer con- England, Dyer's current work "invite" a peacekeeping force into such endeavours would be under- new agenda are "relatively pure," cluded the lecture by saying that revolves around his columns on East Timor. An ultimatum was taken with or without the support of according to Dyer. what this all means Ls that interna- international relations that appear in issued that warned Indonesia that it the United Nations, so long as NATO Dyer went on to explain some of tional law and the international sys- some 175 papers in more than a would effectively lose all types of aid allies were in compliance. the failures of historical peacekeep- tem in general are moving away dozen languages. Included in that - in addition to "unpublicized other The end result of all this Is that ing measures that have led to this from protecting governments, and group is the Globe and Mail, which threats" - if it did not proffer an invi- we've "changed the rules" in inter- shift in policy, giving as examples the towards protecting people from the publishes Dyer's column on a month- tation to intervene upon the UN. national law. Dyer believes that American withdrawal from Somalia, governments under which they live. ly basis. This Is in addition to the 15 These two examples of the last "We're in deep waters here." That is the horrifying experience of Bosnia, And although Dyer concedes that other odd Canadian dailies that pub- year are as unique as they are to say that such a shiil brings with it and the United Nation's decision to while the contradiction will not be lish Dyer's column. ground-breaking. In the last year, a great number of possible conse- pull out of Rwanda just before geno- easily resolved, it must be made to be Not surprisingly, the lecture drew we've attacked a sovereign stale in quences, both good and bad. A defi- cide began there. so in order to increase the stability of a n°ticeably older audience, includ- support of a humanitarian cause, nite cause for concern. 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