The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies

invites you to a round-table discussion

“UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN THE BALKANS”

RHETORIC OR STRATEGY?

Friday, May 22, 2009, 10 a.m.-12 noon

University of Toronto, Alumni Hall, 121 St. Joseph Street (just off Queen's Park Crescent East)  The nearest subway stop is MUSEUM.  There is parking available behind the building.

A major security issue facing Europe is the stated intention of the Obama Administration to play a more active role in the former Yugoslavia. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is committed to wrapping up what she calls “the unfinished business in the Balkans.” Almost daily calls are coming from various think-tanks and Congressional committees in Washington for de facto liquidation of the Republika Srpska (“Dayton II”) and for an even greater pressure on Serbia to recognize Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence. 

To discuss the motives, implications, likely course, and possible results of such U.S. policy, we have assembled a panel of foreign policy experts with extensive experience in the Balkans:  

Ambassador James Bissett

Chairman of The Lord Byron Foundation, former head of Canada's Immigration Service

Former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia.

James George Jatras

Director, The American Council for Kosovo (Washington D.C.)

Former U.S. foreign service officer and Congressional analyst

Dr. Sunil Ram

International defense and security analyst and media commentator. 

Canadian Forces veteran, former military advisor to the Saudi Royal Family.

Dr. Srdja Trifkovic

Executive Director of The Lord Byron Foundation

Former foreign affairs editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.

Free entry – donations welcome!

The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies was founded by the late Sir Alfred Sherman in 1994 as a non-partisan research institute devoted to studying south-eastern Europe. The Foundation's research, publications and conferences are designed to correct the current trend of public commentary which tends not to understand events but to construct a propagandistic version of Balkan rivalries.

For further information please contact Boba Borojevic at (613) 852-1971 or   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it