Peter Galbraith, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, will discuss the successes and failures of the negotiated peace in the former Yugoslavia in a keynote address during "Making Peace Agreements Work," a two-day symposium beginning Friday, April 25, at the Cornell Law School.

The symposium, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Cornell International Law Journal. All sessions take place in the MacDonald Moot Court Room of Myron Taylor Hall.

Galbraith will speak Saturday, April 26, at 2 p.m. on "The Dayton Accords: The Bosnia Peace Agreement." He helped negotiate the 1994 Washington Agreement in establishing the Federation of Bosnia Herzegovina and was co-sponsor of the peace process in Croatia that produced several agreements between the Croatian government and the Krajina Serbs.

The symposium opens Friday at 4 p.m. with a presentation on "Theoretical Issues in the Implementation of Peace Agreements." Presenters include retired Maj. Gen. Barry Ashton of the Canadian Army, who served as deputy commander of U.N. forces in Croatia from 1993 to 1994.

The symposium continues Saturday at 10 a.m. with a discussion on "The Oslo Accords: The Israeli/Palestinian Peace Agreement." Presenters include Cornell Associate Professor of Government Shibley Telhami and University of Ohio Law Professor John Quigley.

Galbraith's presentation on Saturday at 2 p.m. will be followed by remarks from Ashton, Professor Paul Szasz of the New York University School of Law, Stephen Walker of the Balkan Institute and Susan Woodward of the Brookings Institution. Cornell Law Professor David Wippman will serve as moderator.

Symposium proceedings and the keynote address will be published in an upcoming issue of the Cornell International Law Journal dedicated to former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie who died in March 1996. Muskie was a 1939 graduate of Cornell Law School.