May 9, 2024
The Dickey Center had the pleasure of hosting two former U.S. officials in conversation about their choices to resign their State Department positions as a form of dissent with US policy. Josh Paul, former director in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, resigned in the fall of 2023 in protest over U.S. government arms policy towards Israel. He spoke with our current Magro Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford, who resigned as a career U.S. Foreign Service officer in 2017 in protest over the Trump administration's policies in Africa on human rights and diplomacy.
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