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The
Forum at
Cedar Lane
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The Sunday
Morning forum offers CLUUC members and friends an opportunity to discuss a broad range of contemporary issues and explore their ethical and religious dimensions. The Forum meets weekly
between Sunday services from 10:10 to 10:55 a.m. in Chalice House.
September 12:
Jeff Leonard, Cedar Lane member, and CEO, Global Environment Fund
(GEF) will speak about the
future of electric vehicles and alternative energy, and demonstrate his Tesla
Electric Sportscar. GEF, a private investment management firm, invests
in companies that deliver clean technologies, cleaner energy and sustainable
management of natural resources all over the world. It was recognized by
the Financial Times and the International Finance Corporation as the
“Sustainable Investor of the Year” in both 2009 and 2010.
September 19: In the
Untold War; Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of our Soldiers, author and
Georgetown University philosophy professor, Nancy Sherman explores the moral
weight soldiers carry on their shoulders as they go to war and return home.
Based on interviews with some forty soldiers, most veterans of the current
conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, she argues that war's residue should not just
be a soldier's private burden. We all must understand and help carry the
burdens of soldiers' inner wars. The book focuses on the critical issue of the
moral wounds of war. Copies of the book will be available for sale at
$28.00.
September 26: America’s Love/Hate Relationship with International Law.
Our speaker is Linda Bishai, a senior program officer in the Academy for
International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding of the United States Institute of Peace. The official US
attitude towards the prosecution of crimes against humanity and war crimes
changed dramatically from the universality of Nuremberg to the exceptionalism of
the International Criminal Court treaty negotiations. Legal "realism" and
"idealism" are strains of thought that pose a battle of opposites, which is
never fully resolved into a coherent approach. Dr. Bishai will address the
history of US legal thinking that has created this conceptual battle, and its
implications for the present.
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