Ambassador Peter Galbraith to Speak at CBD Reception
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
6:30 pm
Sabur Restaurant
212 Holland Street, Somerville, MA
$50 per person suggested donation includes delicious Balkan appetizers and desserts, and Croatian wine.
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Ambassador Galbraith will address U.S. policy challenges facing the next administration in the former Yugoslavia.

Galbraith is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (2006). Currently, he is the Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and a principal at the Windham Resources Group LLC.

As U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, Galbraith was actively involved in the Croatia and Bosnia peace processes. He was co-mediator and principal architect of the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the war in Croatia by providing for peaceful reintegration of Serb-held Eastern Slavonia into Croatia.

During the war years, Ambassador Galbraith was responsible for U.S. humanitarian programs in the former Yugoslavia and for U.S. relations with the UNPROFOR mission headquartered in Zagreb. Ambassador Galbraith's diplomatic interventions facilitated the flow of humanitarian assistance to Bosnia and secured the 1993 release of more than 5,000 prisoners of war held in inhumane conditions by Bosnian Croat forces.

"Sarajevo '92", eighteen signed prints made in Sarajevo while under siege in 1992, will be on display and for auction.

SARAJEVO WILL BE by Sead Cizmic

"Sarajevo '92" is an exhibit of graphics work created in 1992 by members of the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Sarajevo as a statement against the aggression in their country. All prints will be on sale to benefti CBD. To view the images online, visit www.balkandevelopment.org/sarajevo92

The prints will be sold in a silent auction during the evening. All prints will start at $250. The auction will close at 9:00 pm.

Srebrenica Memorial Quilt

The Srebrenica Memorial Quilt will be on display. This quilt was created by Bosfam, an organization of Bosnian women weavers, many of whom lost family members in the Srebrenica massacre. The images on the quilt depict educators who were lost at Srebrenica. For more information on the quilt, see http://www.advocacynet.org/page/quilt . The quilt was brought to the U.S. with the help of the Advocacy Project, at Washington-based organization that seeks to help community-based human rights advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and in so doing advance social justice. A representative from the Advocacy Project will present the quilt and will be taking orders for additional memorial panels.

Delicious Balkan and Mediterranean hors d'ouevres will be served.

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