5/17/07 - Kickoff (& Dinner) - UCLA School of Public Affairs and American Council of Young Political Leaders @ 6PM PDT

May 17 2007 - 6:00pm
May 17 2007 - 10:00pm

“The Art of Strategic Leadership”
Leadership Seminar at the University of California – Los Angeles


General Clark will be speaking to the American Council of Young Political Leaders at a Leadership Seminar (University of California – Los Angeles) in conjunction with the UCLA's School of Public Affiars exclusively for ACYPL alumni and supporters. This program has been custom designed to meet the leadership challenges that confront key decision-makers on a daily basis.


The program will include classroom lectures and highly participatory case studies and exercises led by UCLA faculty and distinguished outside speakers. Registration includes all program materials, reception and dinner on Thursday and Friday evenings, breakfast and lunch on Friday and Saturday, and all program-related transportation.

UCLA Covel Commons Grand Horizon room, UCLA, School of Public Affairs, Los Angeles CA
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March 6 thru 7, 2007 - Host: Burkle Center for International Relations (UCLA) Inaugural Conference on National Security

Mar 6 2007 - 1:00am
Mar 7 2007 - 11:00pm

On September 2006, Gen. Wesley Clark, former supreme allied commander of NATO and author of “Waging Modern War,” joined the Burkle Center as a senior fellow.

Clark will host the center’s inaugural conference on national security.

The first conference, to be held March 6-7, 2007, will explore the emerging challenges of nuclear weapons in the 21st century.

Watch this page for details.

Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA
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10/3/06 - LA Times: Clark Speaks Out on New Torture Rules

Clark Speaks Out on New Torture Rules

October 3, 2006
By James Ricci | Times Staff Writer | Los Angeles Times

In an address at UCLA, the retired general lambastes the Bush administration for challenging the Geneva Convention.

Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark, speaking to UCLA faculty and students Monday, said that observing the Geneva Convention is crucial to America's interests and its ability to mobilize other countries for collective efforts.

Clark — who was supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization under President Clinton and led a coalition of nearly a score of countries to successfully end Serbian oppression of Kosovo's Albanians in 1999 — said the Bush administration's insistence on more leeway in applying Geneva Convention standards to the interrogation of terrorism detainees runs counter to America's history of observing international law.

"We were anti-colonial," he said. "We did not support the French re-conquest of Indochina. We helped force the Dutch out of the East Indies. We did not support the invasion of Suez by Britain and France in 1956. We were a nation that operated selflessly. People saw us as different because we followed international law."

Making his debut as a senior fellow at the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations at the university's International Institute, Clark called law "the ultimate human construct — more important than bridges, more important than [micro]chips…. Law is sacred in the American system."

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