Director of Ford Foundation's Special Initiative on Agent Orange/Dioxin to deliver message
Charles Bailey, Director, Ford Foundation Special Initiative on Agent Orange/Dioxin, will pay a special visit to the UH Mānoa campus on October 21 and 22 as part of the international celebration of Conflict Resolution Day 2010. Conflict Resolution Day is celebrated annually on the third Thursday of October to promote the use of conflict resolution in schools, families, businesses, communities, governments and the legal system.
Charles Bailey will give a keynote talk that will be followed by the showing of the film “Vietnam's Lingering Ghost: Facing the Legacy of Agent Orange” as part of the Make Agent Orange History program. Charles Bailey is the key architect of the U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group, a diverse group of private citizens, scientists, and policy makers from the U.S. and Vietnam who, through the effort of the Ford Foundation, were brought together to work on critical issues related to the legacy of Agent Orange that the two countries’ governments, for decades, were unable to resolve. Bailey will recreate his experience forming the U.S.-Vietnamese Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin and address the strategic selection of participants and the vital role neutrality played in its success.
The Dialogue Group’s biggest successes comes in the form of commitment by the U.S. Government to spend $15 million this fiscal year on clean-up and humanitarian assistance in Vietnam. Agent Orange in Vietnam is a humanitarian concern that we can do something about. The Dialog Group report is a plan of action for addressing this legacy.
The report notes that America is at its best when it responds to humanitarian concerns, restores hope and dignity to a devastated people and closes the wounds of the past.
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