Monday, February 13, 2017, 15:00 - 15:30
"Tragedy of Tibet – How to pave a path for the future"
Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile
Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English.
Lobsang Sangay will speak at the club on the current human rights situation of the Tibetan people under Chinese rule, including freedom of religion and assembly, and the implications for the future of Tibet during a Donald Trump presidency in the US.
The new US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently indicated he would be open to meeting the Dalai Lama, a comment that gave rise to a rebuke from China.
Sangay will also give an update on the consequences of the environmental destruction taking place on the Tibetan Plateau. Sangay is an expert on International Human Rights Law, Democratic Constitutionalism, and Conflict Resolution. He has spoken in hundreds of seminars around the world. He organized seven major conferences among Chinese, Tibetan, Indian and Western scholars, including two unprecedented meetings between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Chinese scholars in 2003 and 2009 at Harvard University.
Sangay is the author of the dissertation Democracy in Distress: Is Exile Polity a Remedy? A Case Study of Tibet's Government-in-exile. As a Fulbright Scholar, he obtained a Masters degree and in 2004 a Doctor of Juridical Science from Harvard Law School. In 2007, he was selected as one of the twenty-four Young Leaders of Asia by the Asia Society.
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