Subject: [big campaign] Press Call Tomorrow: Responding to the Tragedy in Haiti
From: Adam Blickstein <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:17:18 -0500
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If folks are interested in joining the call:

Press Call Tomorrow: Responding to the Tragedy in Haiti

Washington D.C. - Tomorrow at 9:30 AM, Mark Schneider, Senior Vice President and Special Adviser on Latin America at the International Crisis Group and former Director of the Peace Corps, Amb. James Dobbins, who served as a special envoy to Haiti, and NSN Senior Adviser Gen. Paul Eaton, will discuss the American response to the tragedy in Haiti. They will examine the civilian, humanitarian and military components being utilized to help rescue and recover individuals, rebuild infrastructure and the long term goals of stabilizing and strengthening Haiti's economic and political situation.

***Call-in #:    1-800-894-5910***
                         International Only: 785-424-1052
***Passcode:  7HAITI***

WHO:             Mark Schneider, Senior Vice President and Special Adviser on Latin America at the
                        International Crisis Group, former Director of the Peace Corps
                        Amb. James Dobbins, who served as a Special Envoy to Haiti;
                        NSN Senior Adviser Maj. General Paul Eaton

WHAT:           Press Call on America's response to the tragedy in Haiti

WHEN:           Friday, January 22
                         9:30 AM

Mark Schneider served as the Director of the Peace Corps from 1999-2001. As the Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development 1993-1999 for Latin America and the Caribbean, he oversaw the post conflict reconstruction programs in Central America and coordinated the response to Hurricane Mitch. He led U.S. delegations to donor conferences for El Salvador, Guatemala, Central America, Andean countries and Haiti, led or participated in election monitoring in El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua and Bolivia and headed U.S. delegations to OAS, IDB and ECLAC conferences.

From 1981 to 1993, he was Chief of the Office of Analysis and Strategic Planning at the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization. He was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs from 1977-1979 and a foreign policy advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy 1970-76.0.

Amb. James F. Dobbins has held various State Department and White House posts, including assistant secretary of state for Europe, special assistant to the president for the Western Hemisphere, special adviser to the president and secretary of state for the Balkans, and ambassador to the European Community. He was the Clinton administration s special envoy for Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo and the Bush administration s first special envoy for Afghanistan. Lead author of The RAND History of Nation-Building and The Beginner s Guide to Nation-Building, Ambassador Dobbins lives in Washington, D.C., where he currently directs RAND s International Security and Defense Policy Center.
Major General Paul D. Eaton (Ret.) retired from the US Army after more than 33 years service. His assignments include Infantry command from the company to brigade levels, command of the Infantry Center at Fort Benning and Chief of Infantry. His most recent operational assignment was Commanding General of the command charged with reestablishing Iraqi Security Forces 2003-2004, where he built the command and established the structure and infrastructure for the Iraqi Armed Forces.

Other operational assignments include Somalia, Bosnia and Albania. Additional assignments include the Joint Staff, Deputy Commanding General for Transformation and Stryker Unit Development and Assistant Professor and head of the French Department at West Point. He is a 1972 graduate of West Point, son of a West Point Air Force fighter pilot, long an MIA from the Vietnam War; remains recently identified for burial at Arlington National Cemetery. He is married to PJ Eaton, an Army veteran and daughter of a Naval Academy graduate career Marine. He is father to a daughter and two sons, both Soldiers, one a Military Intelligence Specialist, one an Infantry Captain.
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Adam Blickstein
Communications Director
National Security Network
202-289-7113 (office)
617-335-0859 (mobile)
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