Angelina Jolie arrived on the Salt set yesterday(Thursday) morning wearing her signature black and carrying War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars by Richard N. Haass. Haas is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations which Angelina worked with back in October when the Jolie-Pitt Foundation underwrote the COFR’s International Law and Justice.
Angelina was still in New York and yesterday she took spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on International Law and Justice. The symposium was underwritten by the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. Speakers included General Wesley Clark, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Cynthia McFadden, co-anchor of Nightline.
Angelina gave the introductory message at the Dafur session. It focused on the “ICC[International Criminal Court] and international justice more broadly, with special focus on ICC’s case against Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir.”
In her introduction Angelina talked about the difficulties of decent international courts saying that no refugee should have to choose between “peace or justice.”
The council is “a nonpartisan and independent membership organization. As you can learn by reading our mission statement, CFR has promoted understanding of foreign policy and America’s role in the world since its founding in 1921″
Angelina last appeared in at the CFR in April.
We’ve got more pics of Angelina at the Council on Foreign Relations Forum in Washington DC. The forum topic was Iraq, Education, and Children of Conflict.
Pictured left to right are Gene Sperling(Senior Fellow for Economic Policy and Director of the Center on Universal Education), Angelina, Safaa El-Kogali( Sudanese national, is an education economist in the Human Development Unit in the Africa Region of the World Bank) and George Rupp
The forum looked at the the plight of nearly 1 million Iraqi refugee children.
“This population we’re talking about is the future of Iraq,” said Angelina “So to reach them now, to help deal with their trauma and refocus their minds on a possible future should absolutely be one of our top priorities. We need these kids. . . . We need them to rebuild their country, to stabilize their country and eventually lead their country.”
Angelina talked about General Patraeus and his view of the war. Patraeus was actually speaking to congress on the war in Iraq at nearly the same time.
“Petraeus would agree that a surge does not just mean it works if you get numbers of violence down,” she said. “It works if humanitarian aid is starting to increase and changes are able to be made. He knows that this is the time to start making some big changes and some big steps forward for the people.”
Angelina also presented Mariane Pearl with an award while in DC.
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