Global Affairs Expert to Deliver Talk

Don Kraus, chief executive officer of Citizens for Global Solutions, will speak at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 13, in the Bangor Room of the University of Maine Memorial Union.

He will deliver a lecture entitled “Global Cooperation: The Only Way Forward” as part of the Socialist and Marxist Studies Lecture Series. The talk is free and open to the public.

Citizens for Global Solutions is a national member-driven movement that empowers and educates people to be engaged global citizens.

Kraus currently co-chairs three NGO working groups: the Partnership for Effective Peacekeeping (PEP), the Washington Working Group on the International Criminal Court (WICC), and the CEDAW (women’s rights treaty) task force. He also plays a lead role in the Law of the Sea Working Group, a broad group of organizations and trade associations focused on U.S. ratification of the convention.

A Virginia resident, he also compiles the Global Solution Report Card, an annual assessment of congressional voting records. Kraus is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and has been quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and many other publications. He has been interviewed on CNN, BBC, NPR, and many other radio and TV shows.

Kraus has previously served as executive vice president of Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) where he directed its government relations department and political action committee. Prior to that, he served as the Executive Director of the Campaign for United Nations Reform and its affiliated political action committee, CUNR PAC. Kraus is also a past president emeritus of the Center for UN Reform Education, a UN reform think tank. He currently serves on the advisory board of the United Nations Association, National Capitol Area.

The talk is co-sponsored by Marxist-Socialist Studies Interdisciplinary Minor, Maine Chapter of Citizens for Global Solutions, School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA), and Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) Maine.

Contact: Doug Allen, (207) 581-3860 or doug.allen@umit.maine.edu