{"id":16502,"date":"2014-04-29T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T22:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/29\/clark-u-political-science-students-tour-u-n-meet-with-ambassadors\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T18:59:34","slug":"clark-u-political-science-students-tour-u-n-meet-with-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/29\/clark-u-political-science-students-tour-u-n-meet-with-ambassadors\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark U. political science students tour U.N., meet with ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n Clark University students, along with Prof. Srini Sitaraman, visited the United Nations on April 17.\n

Students from the Clark University<\/a> Model United Nations Program<\/a>, along with students enrolled in the University’s “United Nations and International Politics” course, made a field visit to United Nations<\/a>Headquarters in New York on April 17.<\/p>\n

The delegation, led by Political Science<\/a> Professor Srinivasan <\/b>Sitaraman<\/a>, included a visit to the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, where the students were briefed by Ambassador Dr. Palitha Kohona and Minister-Counsellor Mr. Waruna Sri Dhanapala on the active role Sri Lanka is playing the Open Working Group on Health and Development.<\/p>\n

The Clark group also visited Germany’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, where they had a fruitful discussion on Germany’s role in the United Nations and its prospects of securing a permanent seat in the U.N. Security Council<\/a>. The students then met with Ms. Tamara Cummings-John from the Office of Legal Counsel of the United Nations, a former lawyer in the International Criminal Court<\/a> (ICC), who talked about the challenges of international criminal prosecution and her experiences serving in the Special Court in Sierra Leone and International Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda. Ms. Cummings-John remarked how she found the Clark students to be “an inspiration and a reminder of how passionate we should all be about the work of this Organization [U.N.] and the ICC.”<\/p>\n

After the briefings, the students received a tour of U.N. headquarters and briefly observed the proceedings that were being held at the Trusteeship Council<\/a> meeting room.<\/p>\n

Students taking part in the trip included Lauren Meininger ’17; Patrick Burchat ’15; Cassandra Grandeau ’16; Xinyun Zhang ’15; Selena Ahmed ’16; Wandong Yang ’16; Yohan Senarath ’14; Katherine Dixon ’16; Brenna Dougherty ’15; Maria Zander ’17; Bethany Burgess ’17; Bongani Jeranyama ’15; Seble Alemu ’14; Jake Kailey ’14; Lance Yau ’14; Kevin Kim ’16; Stephanie Vachon ’16; Dulara de Alwis ’15; Riley Bright ’15; Nusrat Islam ’17; Savannah Donohue ’17; Corie Welch ’17; Matt Isihara ’14; Spring Pillsbury ’17; Dea Dodi ’17; Lisaflora Lara ’17; Hasini Assiriyage ’17; and Michael Pierce ’16.<\/p>\n

This field trip to the United Nations was made possible with the support from the Francis A. Harrington Fund.<\/p>\n

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