Lessons from U.S.-Vietnam Reconciliation: Roadmap for the World

A panel discussion — featuring Columbia Global scholars and a Vietnamese diplomat — on the lessons learned by the U.S. since the end of the Vietnam war and how those lessons could inform post-war contexts throughout the world.

Speakers

• Wafaa El-Sadr, Executive Vice President of Columbia Global (Chair)
• Jean-Marie Guehenno, Director of the Kent Global Leadership Program on Conflict Resolution, SIPA (Moderator)
• Paige Arthur, Director of Global Programming, Columbia Global
• Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, former Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations
• Adam Tooze, Chair of the Committee on Global Thought; Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History

Series

This panel is part of a series of four discussions on May 1, titled "The 30th Anniversary of U.S.-Vietnam Relations: Former Enemies & Present Partners," hosted and co-sponsored by Columbia's Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

Learn more about the day's first two events, as well as a fourth event that evening featuring filmmaker Ken Burns, co-director and producer of The Vietnam War series.