Hamburg To Deliver Godkin Lectures

David A. Hamburg, president emeritus of Carnegie Corp. of New York, will deliver this year's Edwin L. Godkin Lecture Series, entitled "Preventing Deadly Conflicts: Who Can Do What?" He currently serves as a member of the Defense Policy Board, U.S. Department of Defense, and is co-chair, with Cyrus Vance, of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.

In describing this year's series, Hamburg said, "The best approach to prevention of deadly conflict is one that emphasizes local solutions to local problems, where possible, and new divisions of labor based on comparative advantage, augmented as necessary by help from outside. In this series I will examine the roles that nongovernmental organizations, educators, religious leaders, business, the scientific community, and the media can play in preventing deadly conflict."

"It will be a pleasure to welcome David Hamburg back to the Kennedy School, where he served on the faculty," said Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. "David brought creative and innovative leadership to the Carnegie Foundation, and we are looking forward to his views on deadly conflicts."

He will deliver the first lecture, "Governments and Inter-governmental Organizations," on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m. in the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum. The second lecture, "Institutions of Civil Society," will be delivered on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in Starr Auditorium at the Kennedy School. Both lectures are open to the public.

Hamburg was president of the Carnegie Corp. of New York from 1983 to 1997. Prior to that, he served as president of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences (1975-80), director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education and John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard (1980-83) and was president, then chairman of the board, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1984-86).

His research contributions have dealt with biological responses and adaptive behavior in stressful circumstances, and with several aspects of human aggression and conflict resolution. In recent years, he has concentrated on child and adolescent development. He is the author of Today's Children: Creating a Future for a Generation in Crisis (1992) and co-author of Great Transitions: Preparing Adolescents for a New Century (1995), by the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development.

Educated at Indiana University (A.B., 1944; M.D., 1947), he is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and has received the American Psychiatric Association's Distinguished Service Award. In September 1996, President Clinton awarded Hamburg the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award of the United States.

The Godkin Lectureship was founded in 1903 by friends of Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1831-1902), editor of The Nation and the New York Evening Post. Lecturers generally speak on the "Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen."

The Godkin lecturership is administered by Joseph S. Nye Jr., Dean of the Kennedy School. The first Godkin Lecture was delivered by Lord James Bryce in 1904. Subsequent lecturers have included Walter Lippmann (1933), Robert Moses (1938), Harold Stassen (1945), Adlai Stevenson (1953), Chester Bowles (1955), Nelson Rockefeller (1961), McGeorge Bundy (1967), John Gardner (1968), Erik Erikson (1972), George Will (1981), Alice Rivlin (1984), Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1985), Paul Samuelson (1986), William Julius Wilson (1988), C. Everett Koop (1989), Derek C. Bok (1992), Peter F. Drucker (1994), and James Q. Wilson (1996).

For further information on the lecture series, contact Amy Dondero at 496-5575.