Institute on World Affairs - Religion and Conflict

Christopher Rossi was director of national security for democracy, human rights and humanitarian affairs in the White House, where he served as an NSC representative to the President Clinton's Advisory Council on Religious Persecution Abroad. He is a visiting lecturer in public international law at Boyd College of Law at The University of Iowa. He is the author of Equity and International Law: A Legal Realist Approach to International Decisionmaking, Broken Chain of Being: James Brown Scott and the Origins of Modern International Law, and has co-edited works on national security and US-Latin American relations. Robert Baum is associate professor in the Religious Studies Program at Iowa State. James McCormick, chair of the Iowa State Political Science Department will moderate the discussion.