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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all"
--HELEN KELLER
Afganistan's past and future
The next New England Chapter of The Explorers Club presentation will be held on Thursday, December 15th, when we are pleased to welcome New England Chapter member and eminent Afghanistan authority Dr. Charles H. Norchi, who will present "Exploring Afghanistan: Past and Future".
Charles Norchi is an educator, scholar and legal counselor who has conducted research, taught and consulted in twenty-two countries. He was Founder and Director of the Washington-based Independent Counsel on International Human Rights; Executive Director of the New York-based
International League for Human Rights; and founder and a director of the Geneva, Switzerland-based International Center for Humanitarian Reporting/Media Action International. Dr. Norchi has counseled UN agencies and the World Bank. He has taught international law, international development and international human rights at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Among his recent publications are Afghanistan: The Essential Field Guide (with Edward Girardet, Jonathan Walter and Mirwais Massood), "Toward the Rule of Law in Afghanistan: The Constitutive Process" (in Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan, John Montgomery, ed.) which won the 2004 Myres S. McDougal Prize in International Law, and Leading Afghanistan from Real Estate to Nation-State?, (in Dissent, Winter 2006). Dr. Norchi is a Fellow of the Center
For Public Leadership in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Fellow of the Explorers Club since 1990. He has been awarded the Explorers Club Flag for expeditions to India, Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan.
In a departure from our usual venue, this Thursday, December 15th evening event will be held at Harvard University's Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, 124 Mt. Auburn Street (Suite 100, Conference Room), Cambridge, MA. 124 Mt Auburn Street is located opposite the Harvard Square Post Office, next to the Charles Hotel, and two doors down from Hoffa's Swiss Pub and Restaurant. On street parking may be found on Mt. Auburn Street and throughout Harvard Square; if you are unable to find space there is a parking garage beneath the Charles Hotel just off Mt. Auburn Street.