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USIP Receives $10 Million for Headquarters Project Great Hall to Be Named for George P May/JUne 2007 Inside 3 Shultz Speech 4 USIP On the Ground 7 Public Health Project 9 Fellowship Vol. XIII, No. 1 Program 10 Focus on Iraq United StateS inStitUte of Peace ■ WaShington, d.c. ■ www.usip.org 14 Short Takes 19 Letter from Nigeria USIP Receives $10 Million for Headquarters Project Great Hall to Be Named for George P. Shultz “Chevron’s contribution is an investment in the global peacebuilding efforts of the Institute.” —David O’Reilly “Having the Institute’s Great Hall bear [Shultz’s] name is an honor and a privilege.” —J. Robinson West Chevron CEO David O’Reilly (left); and J. Robinson West, USIP board chair, and Richard Solomon, USIP president, speak at a dinner celebrating Chevron’s contribution to the Institute. he U.S. Institute of on international conflict preven- the Institute’s new headquarters Peace has received a $10 tion, management, and resolution. project comes at a significant million contribution The Institute plans to name the moment…. [The new building] from the Chevron Cor- great hall at the new building the will increase the Institute’s capac- poration to help con- George P. Shultz Great Hall, in ity and our ability to reach out to struct its new permanent honor of the former U.S. secretary the American public and the headquarters at the of state. The theater in the Public world.” northwest corner of the National Education Center will be identi- He continued, “During the last TMall in Washington, D.C. The fied as the Chevron Theater. two decades, we have worked to headquarters will serve as a Speaking at a dinner at which promote skills in international national center of innovation for those plans were announced, Insti- conflict management as an essen- research, education, training, and tute president Richard Solomon tial element of diplomacy and for- policy and program development affirmed, “Chevron’s support for See Chevron, page 2 U.S. Institute of Peace.” He noted decades. He plays a continuous 2 Chevron that the Institute is making a dif- role in shaping the minds and the continued from page 1 ference around the world through lives of those around him, includ- conflict resolution efforts and ing my own. He remains steadfast post-conflict stability programs. in his advocacy of freedom and “These initiatives are very much peace around the world.” aligned with Chevron’s own Kissinger praised Shultz as a approach, which is focused on “great leader”—which he defined building the human and institu- as someone who is able to take a tional capacity of communities society “where it has never been.” wherever we operate,” said Kissinger further noted that when O’Reilly. “I am also delighted that they worked together in govern- the Institute of Peace has taken ment, he would never make a this opportunity to honor George major decision without first trying Shultz for his tireless efforts in the to find out what Shultz thought cause of international diplomacy.” about it. Numerous dignitaries praised Shultz served as secretary of Honoree George Shultz and former secretary of state Secretary Shultz at the dinner; labor and secretary of the treasury Henry Kissinger reminisce about their experiences in among them were former secre- under President Nixon and as sec- government. tary of state Henry Kissinger and retary of state under President eign policy. The lack of stable former Institute board chairman Reagan. He was also president of societies and rule of law in many Max Kampelman. National Secu- Bechtel Corporation from 1974 parts of the world increases the rity Adviser Stephen Hadley to 1982. His tenure as secretary of potential for armed conflicts.” delivered an encomium on behalf state coincided with the collapse Solomon pointed out that preven- of President George W. Bush, of the Soviet Union. Shultz has Henry tive action can minimize the need saying that Shultz “embodies the been widely praised for helping to Kissinger for military interventions abroad. finest values of our country,” and successfully manage that transi- J. Robinson West, the chair of that as secretary of state he dem- tion. He is currently involved in praised Shultz the Institute’s board, addressed onstrated that “our nation’s an effort to create a world without as a “great Secretary Shultz directly in his strength makes our nation’s diplo- nuclear weapons. speech at the dinner. “Having the macy more effective…and that In his own speech, Shultz laid leader.” great hall of the Institute’s perma- freedom is the world’s most pow- out a highly optimistic vision for nent headquarters bear your name erful force for promoting lasting the future, saying that we live “in is an honor and a privilege for the peace and security.” a golden moment” when, for the organization. It will serve as a Institute president Richard first time in history, virtually every lasting tribute to you on the Solomon read a letter of tribute country in the world has learned National Mall for your many con- to Shultz from Secretary of State how to grow its economy. The tributions in public service.” Condoleezza Rice. “I think there challenge now is to defend this Chevron chairman and CEO could be no finer person, no golden moment by “getting peo- David O’Reilly lauded the Insti- American more deserving of the ple to raise their sights, and say tute at the dinner. “Chevron’s con- honor here tonight than George we’re in this together, and we’ve tribution is an investment in the Shultz,” she wrote. “I have had got to figure out a way to deal global peacebuilding efforts of the the honor of knowing him for two with it together.” Guests at the Shultz dinner included (from left) Representative David Dreier (R-CA), Senator John Warner (R-VA) and Henry Kissinger; former USIP board chair Chester Crocker and Chevron CEO David O’Reilly; former USIP board chair Max Kampelman and former senator Howard Baker; Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) with Singapore Ambassador Chan Heng Chee; Kit Bond and former senator Sam Nunn; Kiron K. Skinner and Chester Crocker; Charlotte Shultz, Howard Baker, former senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker, and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). The following is a substantial excerpt from Shultz’s speech reduced, in great strides all the 3 time. So, what’s our problem? Well, George Shultz Speech at the our problem is that we are in dan- ger of disrupting this golden Institute Dinner: moment. The golden moment was built by a world consisting of sov- ereign states that interact together “A Golden Moment in History” and economies that interact together. They were built on a cer- he Institute does important particular. We need to conduct a tain concept of how the world work—wonderful, instruc- global diplomacy. But tonight I works. Today we see ourselves tive case studies, among T thought I might draw back from confronted with elements in the other things. Your work isn’t just the issues that are so consumptive Islamic arena that want to change an academic exercise. It points the of our attention right now and that world and make it work dif- way forward and outlines steps for frame the situation. ferently, and they use terrorism as how to get there. The Institute I would say first that we have a weapon, as a tactic. If [weapons “We’ve itself gets involved on the ground to remind ourselves that we are at of mass destruction get] into their as well. It has become an impor- forgotten a moment in the world that is hands, they can cause the kind of tant institution, and as far as I unparalleled in its promise. Econ- violence that causes people and how know, USIP is the only peace- omies all over the world are societies to withdraw into them- building institute in the world devastating expanding. The International selves. That can fundamentally that is funded in its operations Monetary Fund released a world destroy this golden moment. it could be entirely by the government but is economic report recently that That’s our problem. free standing. It’s not part of the if a nuclear included national growth rates There are all kinds of things executive branch, which gives it over the last year or so, as well as that we need to do about it. But I weapon was the ability to do things in some near-term projections. There are think that one of the things we ways that other people in the gov- dropped no minus signs on that chart. need to do is rally the world. This ernment can’t do…. Everything is moving in the right is not our problem alone. This is somewhere.” I’m glad to see that it’s going direction. This has practically the world’s problem. To protect to have a wonderful new head- —George never happened before. People this golden moment, we must all quarters building. The kind of have learned how to manage be in it together. We must at the Shultz surroundings that you’re creating economies so that they move for- same time raise people’s sights will help attract a very high-pow- ward and are stable. When econ- about what we can do. Tonight ered staff, and that high-powered omies move forward in that man- Henry [Kissinger] and Max staff will further justify the insti- ner, political openness takes place, [Kampelman] referred to our joint tution. There will be a cumulative not necessarily democracy as we effort to see if we couldn’t create a effect. I’m just delighted to see think of it, but more open societ- world without nuclear weapons.
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