CITIZENS FOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS UPCOMING EVENTS:
CGS-MN Co-sponsored event:
Genocides in Ukraine – From Stalin to Hitler to Putin
Date: Monday, February 24, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm CT
Description: This program remembers those whose lives have been lost since Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and in the previous crises. Three brutal dictators have tried to annihilate Ukrainians.
- Stalin killed nearly 4 million Ukrainians in a genocide by starvation, the Holodomor, 1932-1933.
- Hitler’s killing squads invaded Ukraine and murdered nearly 1.6 million Jews and others in a ‘Holocaust by bullets’ in the 1940s.
- Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the third genocide in Ukraine.
Admission for the webinar:
- $10 general public; $5 seniors and students (over age 13, please).
- $25 for 1.5 CLE credits for Minnesota lawyers.
- Continuing education and 'clock hours' available for Minnesota teachers, social workers, and nurses.
- Mitchell Hamline students free – diversity credits are available.
- Qualifies as a University of St. Thomas Law Mentor Externship experience.
Registration is required by Monday, February 24, 5:00 pm CT.
CGS-MN Co-sponsored event:
”What does American Diplomacy Keep Getting Wrong?”
Date: February 27, 2025
Time: Noon Central Time
Local: O’Shaughnessy Room, at the O’Shaughnessy Library, at University of St. Thomas
Free pizza and deserts for attendees
Speaker: Thomas Hanson
Thomas Hanson served as Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State in East Germany, France, the Soviet Union, and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. He worked on the Foreign Relations Committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and served as Director for NATO and European Affairs at the Atlantic Council. Now, as a member of the Great Decisions advisory committee of Global Minnesota, Mr. Hanson delivers the annual US Foreign Policy Update at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
Description: Whatever diplomacy is, we intuitively know it is not the imperious bullying we now see from the White House. So what then? ...a more polite form of pressure? ...a fundamentally different mission? When does diplomacy succeed? When does it fail? What are the fallacies, biases, and inherited beliefs that have prevented us, over the lifetime of our nation, from practicing diplomacy with clarity?
• Veteran Diplomat Tom Hanson leads us to radically reconsider our foreign policy assumptions.•
Co-Sponsors/Partners:
International Studies
Political Science
Justice & Peace Studies
Human Rights Professor Kathya Dawe
Citizens for Global Solutions Minnesota
The Institute of Theological & Interdisciplinary Studies