BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:347@test.arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150226T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150226T130000 DTSTAMP:20150209T223826Z URL:https://test.arabamerica.com/events/negotiating-civil-conflict-constit utional-construction-imperfect-bargaining-iraq/ SUMMARY:"Negotiating in Civil Conflict: Constitutional Construction and Imp erfect Bargaining in Iraq" DESCRIPTION:INDIANA\n\nA lecture and discussion with Professor Haider Ala H amoudi (University of Pittsburgh School of Law) about his book: "Negotiat ing in Civil Conflict: Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargainin g in Iraq"\n\n \;\n\nWhen: Thursday\, February 26 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm \n\n \;\n\nWhere: Maurer School of Law\, Room 213\n\n \;\n\nWhat:  Haider Ala Hamoudi served in 2009 as an adviser to Iraq’s Constitutio nal Review Committee\, and he argues that the terms of the Iraqi Constitut ion are sufficiently capacious to be interpreted in a variety of ways\, al lowing it to appeal to the country’s three main s\n\n\n\nects despite th eir deep disagreements. While some say that this ambiguity avoids the chal lenging compromises that ultimately must be made if the state is to surviv e\, Hamoudi maintains that to force these compromises on issues of central importance to ethnic and sectarian identity would almost certainly result in the imposition of one group’s views on the others. Drawing on the or iginal negotiating documents\, he shows that this feature of the Constitut ion was not an act of evasion\, as is sometimes thought\, but a mark of it s drafters’ awareness in recognizing the need to permit the groups the t ime necessary to develop their own methods of working with one another ove r time.\n\n \;\n\n*Co-sponsored with Center for Constitutional Democr acy ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/02/Unknown9.jpg CATEGORIES:Books/Literature LOCATION:Maurer School of Law\, 350 Canal Walk\, Indianapolis\, IN\, United States GEO:39.7726788;-86.16536389999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=350 Canal Walk\, Indianapol is\, IN\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Maurer School of Law:ge o:39.7726788,-86.16536389999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20141102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR