About The Speaker

Andrew Mack is Professor and Director of the Human Security Centre at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia.  He is the former Director of Strategic Planning in the Executive Office of Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the United Nations (1998-2001).  He has held research and teaching positions at Flinders University (Australia), the London School of Economics, the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, the Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, University of California at Berkeley, Irvine and San Diego, the University of Hawaii, Fudan University in Shanghai and the International University of Japan.  He has received research grants from the MacArthur, Ford, Alton Jones and Rockefeller Foundations and from the UN University, the Social Science Research Council (UK) and the governments of Australia, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada and the UK.

Mr. Mack is well known for directing the project that produced the Human Security Report 2005, which was supported by five governments and published by Oxford University Press. The report is the most comprehensive annual survey of trends in warfare, genocide and human rights abuses.

Professor Mack has written and edited some eleven monographs and books and his 50 plus scholarly articles have appeared in a wide range of journals including: World Politics, The Washington Quarterly, British Journal of International Studies, World Policy, Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Politics, Security Dialogue, Arms Control, Asian Survey, Australian Journal of International Affairs and Pacific Review. He has also published widely in the mainstream print media including the International Herald Tribune, The Economist, The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Newsday, Yomiuri Shimbun, The Australian, The Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Corriere Della Sierra, the Far Eastern Economic Review, The Japan Times, New Scientist, The Bulletin, The New Zealand Herald, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen, The Nation and the South China Morning Post. He also frequently contributes to radio and TV programs in many countries.

His pre-academic career included six years in the Royal Air Force (engineer and pilot); two and a half years in Antarctica as a meteorologist and Deputy Base Commander; a year as a diamond prospector in Sierra Leone and two years with the BBC’s World Service producing the current affairs program ‘The World Today’.

About The Lectures

Friends of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and prominent Virginians, Edwin and Helen Lynch, made a substantial gift to the University in 1987 to establish a Chair, in the name of Edwin’s parents, Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch. Former recipients of this position are the late Dr. James H. Laue, Dr. Kevin Clements and Dr. Daniel Druckman. This evening is a celebration of the new chair, Dr. Sandra Cheldelin. The Lynches have continued to provide invaluable support, both material and spiritual, to the Institute.

In order to bring the idea and theory of conflict analysis and resolution to the attention of the entire University community, and in gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Lynch, the Institute establ-ished the annual Lynch Lecture series. Previous lecturers are: James H. Laue (1987), John W. Burton (1989), Elise and Kenneth Boulding (1990), Richard E. Rubenstein (1991), Ambassador Samuel E. Lewis (1992), Roger Wilkins (1993), Deborah M. Kolb (1994), Rajmohan Gandhi (1995), Johan Galtung (1996), Anatol Rapoport (1997), Donald W. Shriver, Jr. (1998), Ronald J. Fisher (1999), Daniel Garcia Pena (2000), Pumla Goboda Madikizela (2001), Kevin Clements (2002), Glyn Ford (2003), Richard Falk (2004) and Luis Moreno-Ocampo (2005). The Lynch Lectures are published as Occasional Papers by the Institute and are available from the George Mason University Bookstore.