Category: Voices & Weekend Voices

Locally produced radio magazine on cultural & community events & people. Every Wednesday from 4:00 – 4:30 PM

Weekend Voices 4/05/08

Producers/Hosts: Marge May and Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine

Topic: Democracy Forum: Civil Service & Political Appointments

Background and trends in the development of a professional civil service; recent trends in political appointments.
Interplay between professional civil service, political appointments, and presidential priorities.  Factors affecting the capabilities, performance and effective operation of the federal bureaucracy.

Guests: Paul C. Light, NYU Wagner’s Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service.  He is also  a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution;  George A. Krause, professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Weekend Voices 3/22/08

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Topic: Excerpts from the 2008 Camden Conference on “Religion as a Force In World Affairs:” presentations by Philip Wilcox Jr. on “Religious Identities in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” and by Rend Al-Rahim Franke on “The Clash
Between Sunni and Shia Muslims Across the Middle East.”

FMI: www.camdenconference.org

Weekend Voices 3/15/08

Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Contributing Producer: Jim Campbell

Topic: The keynote speech from the 2008 Camden Conference held in late February, 2008. Our speaker today is Harvard professor, Catholic priest, and world renowned expert on the theory of just wars, J. Brian Hehir.

The theme of the 2008 Camden Conference was “Religion as a Force in World Affairs” and Father Hehir’s task in his keynote was to offer an overview of the place and effect of religion in international diplomacy historically, today, and into the future. In the process, he discussed both the good and the bad effects of religion in international politics, the morality of using force in the context of historical just war theory, and what the fifteen-hundred year history of just war thinking tells us about about torture, pre-emptive strikes, and other issues that fill our headlines today.

Father Hehir was introduced at the conference by the Chair of the Program Committee, Jim Matlock.

For more information on the Camden Conference: www.camdenconference.org.

Voices will continue our special coverage of the conference and its theme, Religion as a Force in World Affairs, next Saturday, March 22 at 3 p.m. with a program featuring selections from talks given at the conference, produced,
as was this program, by Jim Campbell.