A DIVERSE EXPERIENCE For current AUWCL students considering careers in international law or human rights, Cha’s advice reflects his own experience. He came to Washington not because his Korean legal training was lacking, but because he recognized that human rights, though universal in their values, can only be fully grasped when seen from multiple vantage points. The diversity of his AUWCL cohort, students from every region of the world, was an essential part of his education.
Top, leſt to right: Professor Padideh Ala’i, director of International & Comparative Legal Studies; Ambassador Jihoon Cha, LL.M. ’01, South Korea’s U.N. Representative; and Dean Emeritus Claudio Grossman during Cha’s visit to AUWCL.
New York and to the U.N., I could see there are still lots of issues we have to deal with,” he said.
He believes South Korea’s trajectory is a model worth sharing with other nations experiencing conflict. “When I came here as a diplomat to the United Nations, I wanted to identify what the specific role of South Korea is at the multilateral level as a middle power country which has experienced the transition period from dictatorship to democracy and risen from the ashes of war to become a big market economy,” he said.
Grossman put it plainly: “I think he is an inspiration for other students that, with determination, you can pursue your path.”
Ambassador Cha’s visit to campus was a reminder that AUWCL’s reach extends far beyond the practice of law, into the halls of the United Nations, into the chambers of the Security Council, and into the ongoing, unfinished work of building a world more attentive to human dignity.
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