International Center for Ethnic Studies
cordially invites you to a lecture

by
Dr. John M. Richardson, Jr.
(Professor of International Development in American University’s School of International Service and Director of the University’s Center for Teaching Excellence)

on
The Iraq Intervention:
What US Policy Makers Could Have Learned from Sri Lanka

on
Friday, July 21, 2006 at 5:30 p.m.

at the

ICES Auditorium,
02, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 08

John M. Richardson, Jr. writes, lectures and consults in the fields of applied systems analysis, international development and Third World political conflict, with a particular emphasis on ethnic conflict. He is presently Professor of International Development in the School of International Service at American University, Washington, D.C. Dr. Richardson has been visiting and writing about Sri Lanka since 1987.

Among books that he has authored, co-authored, or co-edited are:
Partners in Development (1969)
Groping in the Dark: The First Decade of Global Modeling (1982)
Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time has Come (1985)
Democratization in South Asia: The First Fifty Years (1998)
Paradise Poisoned: Learning About Conflict, Terrorism and Development from Sri Lanka’s Civil Wars (2005)