http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/ Headlines from the University of California, Berkeley Steve McConnell - steve.mcconnell@berkeley.edu en-US http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/06/22_pathfinders.shtml University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau is one of three recipients of the Shinnyo-en Foundation's 2009 Pathfinders to Peace Prize issued today (Monday, June 22) by the Shinnyo-en Foundation during ceremonies in San Francisco. Published: 22 June http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/04/27_dalailama.shtml Whether history remembers the 21st century as happy or unhappy "is in your hands," the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, told the students at UC Berkeley campus appearance. Published: 27 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/04/25_dalaillama.shtml The Dalai Lama made his third visit to UC Berkeley on Saturday, April 25. His Holiness made a special appeal to students to help put an end to war, saying that peace begins with "personal disarmament." Published: 25 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/04/24_blum.shtml At the April 23 groundbreaking for the Richard C. Blum Center for Developing Economies' new campus home, Al Gore paid tribute to its founder and, especially, to the students whose engagement gives the center such promise to aid the world's poor. Published: 24 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/04/23_putin.shtml Russia today, under Vladimir Putin, is neither autocratic nor imperialistic, Communist nor democratic, says an emeritus professor of political science. The good news? Things could be a lot worse… for the Russian people in particular. Published: 23 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/04/09_journalist.shtml Only a handful of journalists operate in the border region between Afghanstan and Pakistan. One of them told a campus audience last week how the U.S. might better conduct its campaign against Islamic extremists there. Published: 09 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/03/23_narcocultura.shtml Mexico's thriving drug trade has produced not only a wave of increasingly shocking violence but a durable imprint on the culture, the renowned Latin American reporter Alma Guillermoprieto told a campus audience. Published: 23 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/11/20_guantanamo.shtml A new study based on extensive interviews with former detainees at the U.S.-run prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, confirms that the abuses they suffered there were not only "cruel, humiliating, and degrading" - in the words of the study's authors - but "clearly [rose] to the level of torture." Published: 20 November http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/11/12_gitmoreport.shtml Detainees released from U.S. detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Afghanistan live shattered lives as a result of U.S. policies in the war on terror, according to a new report by human rights experts at UC Berkeley. Published: 12 November http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/10/08_foreignpolicy.shtml The next president must talk frankly about the limits of U.S. power, not be engulfed by outdated ideas and the chattering class, and confront problems like climate, terrorism, and nuclear proliferation that require multilateral solutions, says Harry Kreisler, executive director of UC Berkeley's Institute of International Studies. Published: 08 October http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/09/29_fallows.shtml With more than a billion people of many ethnicities - whose most striking shared quality is an aversion to following rules - it's difficult to speak of one China, journalist James Fallows told an audience at UC Berkeley on Sept. 25. Published: 29 September http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/09/22_teachin.shtml Cleavon Gilman, a UC Berkeley undergrad, dreamed of "action," possibly even killing a person, when he deployed to Iraq. He indeed saw blood, lots of it, during his tour of duty, though not on the terms he expected, he told a spellbound audience at UC Berkeley Sept. 19. The Cal transfer student spoke at a day-long teach-in on the Iraq war and lessons to be drawn from the Vietnam War era. Published: 22 September http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/09/18_cambodia.shtml It's taken this long to bring just five likely Khmer Rouge killers before a tribunal. Wouldn't it be easier simply to 'bury the past' and move on? Sophal Ear isn't sure Published: 18 September http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/09/18_war.shtml Iraq War veteran Cleavon Gilman, who is a UC Berkeley undergrad, and pacifist Vietnam War vet Brian Willson will share a stage at a teach-in on the Iraq War to be held at UC Berkeley on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. The vets will offer personal perspectives on two U.S. wars separated by four decades. Published: 18 September http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/08/14_china.shtml Behind the rapid modernization of China, powerfully symbolized by the architectural wonders of the Beijing Olympics, are millions of migrant construction laborers from rural villages, working for low wages and outside the protection of Chinese labor laws. Published: 14 August