The International Residential College hosted Nobel Peace Prize winner Jerry White Tuesday in the second of a series of IRC Fellow Dinners.
Dinners are offered once a month and are organized by the IRC Council’s six ministers, their committees and professors living in the IRC, said third-year College student Pooja Ranganathan, a member of the IRC Council.
"We try to model off of Oxford and Cambridge's residential colleges, so a lot of the time we want to integrate student and faculty and enhance the culture of the IRC," said Ranganathan.
White is best known for his work on three major campaigns — the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the Cluster Munitions Treaty; and the Landmine Ban Treaty, for which White received the Nobel Peace Prize. He has also served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the past three years and is currently a Professor of Practice at the University.
After the meal, White spoke about his career and passion for international pursuits. He praised IRC students for their interest in diversity and global initiatives and encouraged them to give back to the greater community.
“I think the appetite for diversity for and change, the appetite for being a little bit uncomfortable is part of the formula for being a changemaker,” White said.
Events that celebrate diversity breed excellence because they allow for a variety of conversation, White said.
“You’ll find you have more excellence when people are mixing up the conversation, for different disciple, and different countries, different languages, and that’s like a good dinner party, once you put that together, things work at a higher level,” White said.
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