“A Good Friday Agreement for Tibet?”
A Lecture by Dr. Lobsang Sangay, S.J.D.


The Lay Committee on Contemporary Spiritual-&-Public Concerns (the “CSPC
Committee”) of St. Paul Parish, Cambridge, will hold the eighth lecture of its series on Sunday, March 11, 2007, 3:30-5:00 P.M. Track II diplomat and scholar Dr. Lobsang Sangay, S.J.D., will speak on “A Good Friday Agreement for Tibet?” This may be the first time, anywhere in the world, that parallels have been drawn between Irish and Tibetan strategic and popular history. This unique event will be held at St. Paul Parish, 29 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA. A reception will follow.

Dr. Sangay has been widely interviewed by the media: the BBC, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, etc. An editorial consultant for Radio Free Asia, he has a weekly radio program and he has published several articles about Tibetan issues, e.g., in the Harvard Asia Quarterly and the Journal of Democracy. He is a major speaker on Tibetan issues in the United States and in East Asia.

After graduating from the Tibetan Refugee School, Sangay did a B.A. (Hon) and an LL.B. at Delhi University, and then won a Fulbright scholarship to do a Master’s in Law at Harvard Law School in 1995. He went on to become the first Tibetan (among six million) to achieve a doctoral degree from Harvard Law, the S.J.D., in 2004. He also won the Yong K. Kim Prize of Excellence for his doctoral dissertation. Last year, Dr. Sangay was selected by the Asia Society as one of the Asia 21 Young Leaders, a new international organization aiming to strengthen dialogue among the future leaders of the Pacific Rim nations.

Dr. Sangay has organized five unprecedented conferences among Chinese and Tibetan scholars. Now, Dr. Sangay will discuss whether the Tibetan Gov’t in Exile should consider the Belfast-Dublin-London negotiations of the mid-1990’s as a way to open dialogue between Dharamsala and Beijing. The CSPC Committee is privileged to host such an historic discussion. For further information on this and other lectures in our series, please visit our website: www.saint-paul-cspc.org.