[Reader-list] `European Archipelago', talk by Roberto Toscano, August 18, 3:30 PM, CSDS

[Rajesh Ramakrishnan]

*Tuesday, 18th August, 2009*



*EUROPEAN ARCHIPELAGO: EUROPE BETWEEN UNITY AND DIFFERENCE*



Talk by *Roberto Toscano*

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at * 3:30 PM* in the *Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi – 110 054*


Roberto Toscano is Italy's Ambassador to India, after being for five years
(2003-2008) Ambassador to Iran. Until 2003, he was Head of Policy Planning
at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and chaired the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee
network on conflict, peace, and development co-operation.

As a career diplomat, he has served in a number of other posts (Chile, USSR,
Spain, United States, as well as at Italy’s Permanent Mission to the United
Nations at Geneva).

He holds a degree in law from the University of Parma and an M.A. from the
School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, which
he attended as a Fulbright fellow. In 1987-88 he was a Fellow at the Center
for International Affairs of Harvard University.

>From 2000 to 2003, he was a visiting professor of international relations in
the Department of Political Science at LUISS University in Rome. He is the
author of several books and articles on human rights, peacekeeping, conflict
prevention, ethics and international relations published in Italy, the U.S.,
France and Spain. Some of his books are: (with Ramin Jehanbegloo) *Beyond
Violence: Principles for an Open Century* (New Delhi: Har-Anand
Publications, 2009), *La Violenza, Le Regole* (Torino: Einaudi, 2006)
and *Soviet
Human Rights Policy and Perestroika *(Cambridge, Mass.: University Press of
America, 1989).