On Tuesday, May 6, at 8 pm in Lowell Hall, John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the Clinton Administration, will deliver the annual Lowell Lecture on "Conflict Resolution in the Post-Cold War World."

Mr. Shattuck is well known to the Harvard community--he served as Vice President for Government, Community, and Public Affairs at Harvard University from 1984 until 1992, when he was called to Washington to assume his role in the State Department. While at Harvard he also served as a Lecturer at the Law School and as a Senior Associate in the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government.

A 1965 honors graduate of Yale College, Mr. Shattuck earned an MA degree from Cambridge University in 1967 before returning to Yale for an LLB from the Law School in 1970. He was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Mr. Shattuck's interest in civil liberties and human rights is evident throughout his distinguished career. He served as National Counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union from 1971 to 1976, and as Executive Director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1976 to 1984. He has been awarded both the Roger Baldwin Medal for outstanding national contributions to civil liberties by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, and the President's Medal by the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union.

Mr. Shattuck's Lowell Lecture will deal with his experiences as Assistant Secretary of State in resolving international conflicts and improving human rights. The lecture is free and open to the public as a community service sponsored jointly by the Lowell Institute of Boston and the Harvard Extension School.