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George A. Lopez, Ph.D.<br />

Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Chair, Peace Studies<br />

Biography<br />

George Lopez has written more than 20 articles and book chapters, as well as five books, on<br />

economic sanctions, U.N. sanctions on Iraq, and counter-terrorism. His volume, co-authored<br />

with David Cortright, The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s has drawn<br />

critical acclaim, including being named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2000. Their<br />

book, Uniting Against Terror, was released in October, 2007 by MIT Press.<br />

With Cortright and Alistair Millar, Lopez wrote Winning Without War: Sensible Security<br />

Options For Dealing With Iraq in October 2002. The policy brief has been called the most<br />

influential document in Europe and the U.S. for those favoring an alternative to war with<br />

Iraq. Lopez and Cortight’s research detailing the unlikely presence of WMDs in Iraq was<br />

detailed before the war in Disarming Iraq in Arms Control Today (Sept. 2002), and then<br />

further articulated after the war in Containing Iraq: the Sanctions Worked in Foreign Affairs<br />

(July/August, 2004). In 2005 and 2006, Lopez testified before relevant U.S. Congressional<br />

Committees regarding corruption and other issues within the UN Oil-for-Food program.<br />

Lectures<br />

Can We Achieve Peace in the War on Terror?<br />

Will the so-called Global War on Terror last for a generation, as Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld predicted? How might peace with<br />

justice be attained in this struggle?<br />

Is Just War Theory Dead?<br />

Catholics have long maintained that war can, and should, be governed by serious ethics—regarding both the decision to wage war<br />

and how to fight a war. In light of the “global war on terror” and ongoing controversies surrounding the war in Iraq, does the just<br />

war theory have any relevance?<br />

The New World of Peacebuilding<br />

In the not-too-distant past, the task of securing peace rested on the shoulders of generals and diplomats. Now the tasks of<br />

rebuilding war-torn societies is so complex that we need a new transnational coalition of citizens and groups which are engaged<br />

in multiple activities from police training to religious reconciliation. This lecture explores how and where such activities are<br />

occurring.<br />

Categories<br />

Ethics, Government, Social<br />

Concerns<br />

The Hesburgh Lecture Series, <strong>2013</strong> <strong>Program</strong> 57

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