{"id":147408,"date":"2019-11-18T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=147408"},"modified":"2019-11-25T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T12:11:46","slug":"the-war-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/11\/the-war-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"The War in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>24 Oct 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Richard Falk is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network<\/a>, an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University,<\/em><em> Distinguished Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies,\u00a0UCSB, author, co-author or editor of 40 books, and a speaker and activist on world affairs.\u00a0In 2008, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council\" >United Nations Human Rights Council<\/a> (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Special_Rapporteur\" >United Nations Special Rapporteur<\/a> on &#8220;the situation of human rights in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palestinian_territories\" >Palestinian territories<\/a> occupied since 1967.&#8221; Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies, and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. His most recent book is <\/em>Achieving Human Rights<em> (2009).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HhccymIiKso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 Oct 2019 &#8211; Richard Falk is a member of the TRANSCEND Network, an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, Distinguished Research Fellow, UC Santa Barbara, author of 40 books, and a speaker and activist.\u00a0In 2008, the UN Human Rights Council appointed Falk to a six-year term as a UN Special Rapporteur on &#8220;the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.&#8221; His most recent book is Achieving Human Rights (2009).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[120,267,504,944,413,395],"class_list":["post-147408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-conflict","tag-geopolitics","tag-international-relations","tag-richard-falk","tag-syria","tag-turkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}