Chairman's Forum
Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Stimson Center

Implementing Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy in the Developing World
Friday, August 13, 2010
Capitol Hill Vistors Center, Room SVC 208/209
Brian Finlay joined us for a discussion of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and global efforts to implement more rigorous non- proliferation regulations. Mr. Finlay is currently the director of the Managing Across Boundaries program at the Stimson Center. He is the co-author of The Next 100 Project: Leveraging National Security Assistance to Meet Developing World Needs (2009)

Lessons Learned: Chemical and Biological Events in Japan
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Tomohiko Makino and Akihito Fukui will examine the Japanese response to health security incidents in recent years, and share their perspectives on Japan’s ability to respond to current CBRN threats.

The Implications of the Rwandan Elections
Friday, August 6, 2010
Susan Page joined us for a discussion on the upcoming presidential elections in Rwanda. Ms. Page is Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Potential for Political Violence: Kenya’s August 4th Constitutional Referendum and 2012 General Election
Monday, August 2, 2010
NOTE: CLOSED BRIEFING - CONGRESSIONAL STAFF ONLY John Langlois ,Country Representative for USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) in Kenya, joined us for a discussion on the potential for political violence in Kenya.

Water Management and Conflict in Pakistan
Friday, July 23, 2010
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419
Dr. Daanish Mustafa joined us for a discussion on the nexus of water management and conflict in Pakistan. Dr. Mustafa is the Senior Lecturer in Environment, Politics, and Development in the Department of Geography at King’s College, London. He has previously served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography at George Mason University and Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of South Florida. Dr. Mustafa has published numerous articles based on his field research for the management of natural resources in Pakistan.

Obama's National Space Policy
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Stimson Center
An afternoon workshop exploring the prospects for space diplomacy following the release of the Obama administration's National Space Policy.

al Shabaab: Reaching Beyond Somalia?
Friday, July 16, 2010
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 325
Bronwyn Bruton and Ambassador David H. Shinn joined us for a discussion on al Shabaab and the security situation in East Africa. Bruton was an international affairs fellow in residence at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2008 through 2009. Ambassador Shinn is an adjunct professor of International Affairs at George Washington University. He served as the US Ambassador to Ethiopia from 1996 to 1999. He also served as the Ambassador to Burkina Faso from 1987 to 1990.

Pakistan's Political and Strategic Culture
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Stimson Center
Event featuring Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa on July 8, 2010, from 4:00-5:00 PM.

The U.S. National Security Strategy
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Congressional Visitor Center, Room SVC 215
Dr. Peter Feaver and Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld joined us for a discussion on the recently released Obama National Security Strategy. Dr. Feaver served as Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform on the National Security Council Staff under the Bush Administration from 2005-2007. Dr. Kleinfeld is a co-founder of the Truman National Security Project and currently serves as its CEO and President.

US-Japan Alliance: How Can It Work Better for the Asia-Pacific Region?
Thursday, July 1, 2010
1111 19th Street NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036
For the last 50 years, the US-Japan alliance has served as the cornerstone of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. In this context, the recent tension between Tokyo and Washington over the relocation of the US Marines Air Station in Futenma stirred concerns, although quiet, in the region. Now that the two governments have reached an agreement on the Futenma relocation and are moving forward, what tasks must both countries tackle to ensure that the US-Japan alliance continues to maintain peace and stability in the region? Mr. Mitchell, currently the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and key author of the Clinton Administration’s 1998 East Asia Strategy Report, will share his perspectives.

The U.S. and the International Criminal Court
Monday, June 28, 2010
Capitol Visitors Center, Room SVC 215
John B. Bellinger, III and Ambassador David J. Scheffer joined us for a conversation on the changing role of the U.S. in relation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and on the recent ICC Review Conference in Kampala. Mr. Bellinger served as Legal Advisor to the U.S. Department of State from 2005 to 2009 and as Senior Associate Council to the President and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council from 2001 to 2005. Ambassador Scheffer was the Ambassador At Large for War Crimes Issues under President Bill Clinton and led the U.S. delegation in United Nations talks establishing the ICC.

Turkey's Changing Role in the World
Friday, June 25, 2010
Capitol Vistors Center, Room SVC 215
Dr. Henri J. Barkey and Dr. Kemal Kirisci joined us for a discussion on the implications of Turkey’s changing role in regional and global affairs. Dr. Barkey is a visiting scholar in the Carnegie Middle East Program and the Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Professor at Lehigh University. He served on the U.S. State Department Policy Planning Staff working on issues related to the Middle East, the Eastern Mediterranean, and intelligence from 1998 to 2000. Dr. Kiri?ci is a professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Bo?aziçi University in Istanbul and was the director of the Center for European Studies there from 2002-2008. He is currently a visiting fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, D.C.

The Future of Trans-Pacific Airpower Interoperability
Monday, June 14, 2010
Stimson Center
Colonel Hiroaki Uchikura will share his perspectives on the future of interoperability between the US Air Force and the Japan Air Self–Defense Force, in the light of lessons learned from the US air partnership with its allied air forces.

Security, Reconstruction, and Development: The Role of Civil Society in Afghanistan
Monday, June 7, 2010
Capitol Visitor Center, Room SVC 210
Three leaders of Afghan civil society joined us to discuss the role of civil society organizations in facilitating peace, security, and sustainable development in Afghanistan. Aziz Rafiee is Managing Director of the Afghan Civil Society Forum, which recently conducted research on “Democratic Policing in Afghanistan.” Mirwais Wardak is Program Director for Cooperation for Peace and Unity, a national peacebuilding and development research institute based in Kabul. Laurent Saillard is Director of ACBAR, the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief.

US-Japan Alliance at 50: Toward a Reenergized Partnership
Monday, June 7, 2010
Stimson Center
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty. This one-day program will assess the current challenges that the US-Japan alliance faces, and explore how the alliance can be re-energized for the 21st century.

Cheater's Risk Launch
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Stimson Center
As part of Stimson's "Unblocking the Road to Zero" project, which seeks to advance the debate about negotiated nuclear disarmament as a viable and practical policy option, Alex Bollfrass and Barry Blechman have developed Cheater's Risk, an online game that explores the dynamics of a world without nuclear weapons. Players take on the challenge of breaking out of a hypothetical disarmament regime without being detected by national intelligence services and international monitors.

Cell Phones: Tools for Terrorists and Assests for Aid Workers
Friday, May 28, 2010
Capitol Visitors Center, Room SVC 208/209
Cori Dauber, an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and of Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Josh Nesbit, the Executive Director of FrontlineSMS:Medic, joined us to discuss the changing role of communications technology and both its beneficial and detrimental impact on human security.

The Afghanistan-Kyrgyzstan Nexus
Thursday, May 20, 2010
U.S. Capitol Building, Room SC-4
Two of International Crisis Group's field-based experts joined us for a discussion on the confluence of instability in Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. Kabul-based senior analyst Candace Rondeaux and Bishkek-based Central Asia Project Director Paul Quinn-Judge addressed key regional and national developments in the neighborhood and U.S. security interests, challenges, and responses to them.

The Future of US-Iraq Relations
Monday, May 17, 2010
The Stimson Center
Ellen Laipson discusses the The Future of US-Iraq Relations, as well as a recent trip to Iraq.

Space Policies for a Contested Global Commons
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Event featuring Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Nacht

Energy Security in Asia
Monday, May 3, 2010
Capitol Visitors Center, Room SVC 215
Mikkal E. Herberg, Research Director of the Energy Security Program at The National Bureau of Asian Research, joined us for a discussion on "pipeline politics" in Asia and the implications for U.S. national security.

De-Radicalization and the Psychology of Terrorism
Friday, April 30, 2010
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 385
Dr. John Horgan, Director of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism and Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Pennsylvania State University, joined us for a discussion on de-radicalization and disengagement programs and the psychology of terrorism.

Prospects for the 2010 NPT Review Conference
Monday, April 26, 2010
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 385
Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs (1998-2003), joined us for a discussion of the upcoming Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in May.

Elections in Sudan
Monday, April 12, 2010
Senate Visitor Center, Room 215
Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, Head of the Government of Southern Sudan's Mission to the United States, joined us for a discussion of Sudan's national elections.

Oil, Drugs, and Conflict: Transnational Issues in West Africa
Friday, March 26, 2010
Congressional Visitors Center, Room SVC 215
Jennifer Cooke, director of the CSIS Africa Program, and Emmanuel Bombande, director of the West African Network for Peacebuilding in Ghana, joined us for a discussion on transnational concerns in West Africa.

Key Issues in U.S.-Latin America Relations
Friday, March 19, 2010
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-11
Michael Shifter, José Cárdenas, and Eric Farnsworth joined us for a discussion on U.S. policy toward Latin America.

Elections in Iraq
Friday, March 12, 2010
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 385
Laith Kubba, former Senior Advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, and Rieder Visser, research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, joined us for a discussion on the Iraqi national elections.

Women and Girls in the Aftermath of the Haitian Earthquake
Monday, March 8, 2010
Capitol Visitors Center, Room SVC 212
Heidi Lehmann, Head of the International Rescue Committee's Gender-Based Violence Technical Unit and recently returned from Haiti, and Kathryn Striffolino, Amnesty International's Associate Director for Latin America, joined us for a discussion on efforts to combat gender-based violence in Haiti in the aftermath of teh earthquake.

Budgeting for National Security
Friday, March 5, 2010
Senate Visitor Center, Room 215
Gordon Adams, former Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, joined us for a discussion of the FY11 budget and the tools of national security.

Peacekeeping Reform and the Protection of Civilians
Thursday, February 25, 2010
The Henry L. Stimson Center
Join Erin Weir of Refugees International, Michael L. Smith of the Global Peace Operations Initiative, and Alison Giffen and Max Kelly of the Stimson Center to discuss concrete steps that the UN and US can take to address today’s peacekeeping challenges and improve peacekeepers' ability to keep people safe in times of armed conflict.

FY11 Budget and Securing Nuclear Materials
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G11
Kenneth Luongo, President of Partnership for Global Security, and Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, joined us for a discussion of the implications of the President's budget on the four-year goal to secure all vulnerable materials worldwide.

Panel Discussion at Stimson/AU Launch of Buying National Security
Thursday, February 18, 2010
The Henry L. Stimson Center
The Stimson Center and American University joined forces to launch Buying National Security, a unique roadmap for readers on how national security budgets come together, de- mystifying the institutions, organizations, processes and politics that support planning and resource allocation.

Afghanistan: Insights from a War Correspondent
Monday, February 1, 2010
Senate Visitor Center, Room 215
Anand Gopal, Afghanistan-based journalist for the Wall Street Journal, joined us for an update on the current state of the insurgency in Afghanistan.

The New Strategy in Afghanistan: An Afghan Perspective
Friday, January 29, 2010
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-11
Mr. Hekmat Karzai, Founder and Director of the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies in Kabul, Afghanistan and former Head of the Political Department in the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, DC, joined us for a discussion on the implications of the U.S. military and civilian "surge" in Afghanistan.

U.S. Counterterror Intelligence: Options for Reform
Monday, January 25, 2010
Senate Visitor Center, Room 215
Dr. Jennifer Sims, Director of Intelligence Studies at Georgetown University and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Coordination, joined us for a discussion on options for reforming the U.S. counterterror intelligence system.

The Rise of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran
Friday, December 18, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 562
Dr. Michael Connell, the director of Project Iran and a research analyst in the International Affairs Group at the Center for Naval Analyses, joined us for a discussion on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its elevated role within Iran’s decision-making structure.

Security in Afghanistan: Local Perceptions
Monday, December 14, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-11
Prakhar Sharma, former Head of Research at the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies in Kabul, Afghanistan, joined us for a discussion on the underlying causes and perceptions of the conflict on the ground.

Nonproliferation and the Legacy of the Cold War
Friday, December 11, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 419
David Hoffman, contributing editor at The Washington Post, will join us for a discussion of his recent book, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War and its Dangerous Legacy.

USAID in Sudan
Friday, December 4, 2009
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 385
William Hammink, U.S. Agency for International Development Mission Director in Sudan, will join us for a discussion on the U.S. government’s development and humanitarian activities throughout the country.

Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Conference Room A, Stimson Center
The Indian Ocean is a region of increasing importance to world commerce, energy security, and environmental concerns, as well as one under threat from piracy, terrorism and resource exploitation. What are current realities and emerging maritime concerns in the Indian Ocean region?

Turmoil in Yemen
Friday, November 20, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-11
April Longley Alley, Research Associate at the National Defense University, joined us for a discussion on the deteriorating situation in Yemen, a country in which, according to Foreign Policy Magazine, a “perfect storm of state failure is brewing.”

Internal Security Threats & Sources of Instability in India and Pakistan
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The Stimson Center
South Asian experts will join us for a discussion on the sources of social conflict, political instability and violence in India and Pakistan, and the capacity of state institutions to respond.

Terrorism and Counterterrorism in India
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 562
Vappala Balachandran and Prakash Singh joined us for a discussion on terrorism and counterterrorism in India. Mr. Balachandran is a Mumbai-based, independent security consultant and a retired Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India. Mr. Singh is a distinguished former senior Indian police officer and has led the police reform movement in India.

Climate Change and National Security
Friday, November 13, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-11
Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn (Ret.), Nigel Purvis, and Matthew Rojansky joined us for a discussion that examined the links between climate change and national security.

Indian Climate Policy: Choices and Challenges
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Nine Indian experts examine the multifaceted climate policy choices and challenges facing their country.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Monday, November 9, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 106
Theodore Sorensen, former Special Counsel and Adviser to President John F. Kennedy, and Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., former Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Non-proliferation and Disarmament (1994-1997), joined us for a discussion on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Mr. Sorensen and Ambassador Graham were part of a group of 30 former high-level officials who signed Partnership for a Secure America’s bipartisan statement in support of the NPT.

Displaced Civilians in Pakistan
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Capitol Visitors Center, Room SVC 209
Mike Young, the International Rescue Committee’s Deputy Regional Director in Pakistan, joined us for a discussion on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Pakistan. Mr. Young currently serves as Country Representative in Pakistan and as a senior leader of Asia and Caucasus region for IRC. He also oversees the Pakistan Humanitarian Forum, the INGO coalition in Islamabad. For the past nine years, Mr. Young has worked with the IRC in a variety of contexts, including Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the DRC, Kosovo, the North Caucasus, Sierra Leone and Sudan.

Obama Goes to China: A Preview of the President’s Trip
Friday, October 30, 2009
Russell Senate Office Building Room 385
We cordially invite you to attend a briefing with Douglas H. Paal and Robert G. Sutter, previewing the issues likely to dominate the agenda during President Obama’s upcoming trip to China. Dr. Paal is currently Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former Director of the American Institute in Taiwan. Dr. Sutter is currently Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Venezuela: The Chávez Question
Friday, October 23, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-11
Event Note: CLOSED BRIEFING - Congressional Staff Only
Mark P. Sullivan, Specialist in Latin American Affairs for the Congressional Research Service who recently returned from a trip to the region, joined us for a discussion on the current status of Venezuela and the future of U.S. relations with the home of the Bolivarian Revolution.

A Renewed Effort in Somalia? Peacebuilding and Counterterrorism Operations in the Horn of Africa
Friday, October 16, 2009
Senate Visitors Center, Room 215
Andre Le Sage, an assistant professor of terrorism and counterterrorism at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, joined us for a discussion on recent peacebuilding and counterterrorism efforts in the Horn of Africa, particularly Somalia. Dr. Le Sage has worked in Africa with a variety of organizations, including the UN and Médecins Sans Frontières, and also served as a political advisor to the Somalia National Reconciliation Conference.

Japan’s Air Defense Capabilities for the New Decade - The “CHANGE” for the Success
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The Stimson Center
With the evolving strategic environment abroad and the considerable political changes at home, Japan faces a significant challenge in rethinking its defense policy priorities, including the future direction of its defense capability build-up. Col. Koichi Nishitani of Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), currently Stimson’s Visiting Fellow, will share his perspectives.

Escalating Ethnic Tension in Iraq: The Next Battlefront?
Friday, October 9, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 562
Joost Hiltermann, Deputy Program Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group, joined us for a discussion on the implications of Arab-Kurdish tension in Iraq, a topic examined in the new Crisis Group report, "Iraq's New Battlefront: The Struggle over Ninewa." Since 2002, Dr. Hiltermann, who just returned from a research trip to the region, has managed a field-based team of analysts conducting research on factors that increase the risk of and drive armed conflict.

Global Economic Crisis: Consequences and Responses in Asia and the Middle East
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Singapore
An invitation-only workshop involving experts from Asia, the Middle East and Africa on the Global Economic Crisis. Co-hosted by Stimson's Regional Voices project and the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, with the support of the Gulf Research Center.

A Green Technology Path for India
Friday, October 2, 2009
Stimson Center
Please join us as Prem Jha, editor, energy author, and advisor to the Government of India, discusses recent work tracing a potential pathway using proven technologies and market incentives to shift India to a no-carbon energy system by 2060.

New Views on Health and Conflict: Mitigating Impact and Rebuilding Health Systems
Friday, September 25, 2009
Conference Room A, The Stimson Center, 1111 19th Street, NW, Washington DC 20036
Dr. Len Rubenstein, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Gloria J. Kim & Marcia D. Fernandez, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University presented findings on the impact of armed conflict on population health and health systems, and the implications for U.S. national security and foreign assistance strategies.

Fragile Partnership: Taiwan’s Pol-Mil Relations, 2000-2008
Friday, September 25, 2009
The Stimson Center
Dr. York Chen offers an original and telling analysis of Taiwan’s political-military relations over the course of Chen Shui-bian’s Administration.

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
Friday, September 25, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 106
Dr. Charles D. Ferguson, Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations and Ambassador Linton F. Brooks, former Chief Administrator of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, joined us for a discussion on the upcoming challenges and opportunities for U.S. nuclear weapons policy.

Continuing Climate Challenges: Copenhagen and Beyond
Monday, September 21, 2009
Stimson Center
Global climate policy is coming to a critical juncture. The US Congress will soon resume deliberations on domestic cap-and-trade legislation. In December, representatives from 192 countries will convene in Copenhagen to hammer out new greenhouse emissions controls to succeed the expiring Kyoto Protocol. What is the outlook for the upcoming negotiations? Please join us for a roundtable discussion with a panel of international experts.

Afghanistan and the Crisis of Legitimacy
Friday, September 18, 2009
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G11
J Alexander Thier, Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the United States Institute of Peace and editor and coauthor of The Future of Afghanistan (USIP, 2009), joined us for a discussion on Afghanistan in the wake of the recent presidential elections. How have extensive allegations of vote rigging impacted the legitimacy of the Afghan Government? What does this mean for US and ISAF counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan?

Pakistan on the Brink?
Friday, September 11, 2009
U.S. Capitol, Room SC-6
John R. Schmidt, a former senior officer in the U.S. Foreign Service who was Political Counselor at the US Embassy in Pakistan (1998-2001) and who currently teaches a graduate seminar on “Pakistan and the Islamic Threat” at the George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs, joined us for a discussion on the precarious state of Pakistan and the threats that emanate from within its borders.

The Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Henry L. Stimson Center
New York University's Center on International Cooperation and the Stimson Center have the honor of inviting you to the launch of The Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2009. The Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2009, published by the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, is the most comprehensive source of data and analysis on peacekeeping in the public domain, a unique resource for journalists and analysts, covering all UN and non-UN peace operations (including Afghanistan, Congo, Darfur and Kosovo).

Water and Peace in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Monday, August 3, 2009
Stimson Center
Please join us for a discussion of peace building through supporting local livelihoods and sustainable water use in Afghanistan and Pakistan with Dr. Daanish Mustafa.

Uighur/Han Clashes in China
Friday, July 31, 2009
Cannon House Office Building, Room 121
Dr. Sean Roberts, director of the international development studies program and associate professor of the practice of international affairs at The George Washington University, joined us for a discussion on the current state of affairs in the Xinjiang region in Western China.

Elections in Afghanistan: A Preview
Friday, July 24, 2009
Cannon House Office Building, Room 441
Dr. Amin Tarzi, Director of Middle East Studies at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia, joined us for a discussion on the upcoming elections in Afghanistan.

Mitigating Cyber Attacks
Monday, July 20, 2009
Cannon House Office Building, Room 121
Mr. Gregory Garcia, former assistant secretary for Cybersecurity and Telecommunications at the Department of Homeland Security and president of Garcia Strategies, and Mr. Gary Woods, cyber security specialist for Rsignia, Inc. and former senior computer scientist for CSC and former program manager for the Einstein Program, joined us for a discussion on cyber security threats to the United States.

Ending Impunity: New Tools for Criminal Accountability in UN Peace Operations
Monday, June 29, 2009
Stimson Center
Stimson hosted an expert panel discussion to launch the newest report on criminal accountability in FOPO's rule of law series.

Development in Afghanistan
Friday, June 26, 2009
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2103
Dr. Scott Guggenheim, senior policy advisor for AusAID’s National Program for Community Empowerment, Indonesia, joined us for a discussion on current governance and development initiatives in Afghanistan. Dr. Guggenheim designed the National Solidarity Program (NSP), a program which allows rural Afghans to create and manage their own development projects, now in 28,000 villages. He discussed his recent trip to Afghanistan where he assessed the state of NSP, especially in the volatile southeast, and the efficacy of various other aid initiatives. What is the current outlook? What is the impact of security concerns and corruption, throughout the country, on international and domestic actors? How can NSP contribute to stability? Where will US support for development and governance projects strengthen Afghanistan’s ability to address its own security? What components are necessary for a coherent, coordinated, civilian strategy in Afghanistan?

Arms Embargoes, Good Intentions and Human Rights: Why and How Do Sanctions Go Astray?
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Stimson
EJ Hogendoorn presented the results of his dissertation titled "The Humanitarian Impact of Arms Embargoes."

Domestic Export Controls and Maritime Security Workshop in Support of the Implementation of UNSCR 1540
Monday, June 15, 2009
Hilton Kingston, Jamaica
To help Caribbean states implement UN Security Council Resolution 1540, the Stimson Center, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) co-hosted a two-day experts’ workshop in Kingston, Jamaica on export controls and maritime security. Thanks to the generous support of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the US Department of Energy, representatives from twelve Caribbean governments joined various other regional and industry representatives to discuss the benefits and relevance of 1540 implementation.

Nuclear Proliferation Issues
Monday, June 15, 2009
US Capitol US HC-7
Security for a New Century hosted Dr. Morton H. Halperin, member of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States and Dr. Andrew K. Semmel, former deputy assistant secretary of state for nuclear nonproliferation to discuss nuclear proliferation issues in anticipation of the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

Who Should Own Our Nuclear Weapons?
Thursday, May 28, 2009
New America Foundation
In early 2008, the Stimson Center's Elizabeth Turpen led a bipartisan task force of experts to provide recommendations to the incoming administration about re-imagining and broadening the vision for the NNSA Laboratories to meet the dynamic security challenges of the 21st century. Dr. Turpen presented the Task Force's findings and discussed how a restructuring of the nuclear weapons complex will help to resolve the tension between President Obama's commitment to the vision of a nuclear free world and his assurances of maintaining a robust deterrent until such a world is attainable.

Space Security
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2103
Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Henry L Stimson Center and director of its Space Security Program, joined us for a discussion on space diplomacy.

Book Launch - The Indian Ocean: Resource and Governance Challenges
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Stimson Center
Please join the Regional Voices project for the launch of its new publication, The Indian Ocean: Resource and Governance Challenges.

Learning from the H1N1/Swine Flu
Monday, May 18, 2009
Cannon House Office Building Room 122
Dr. Rebecca Katz, assistant research professor in the Department of Health Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, and Dr. Julie Fischer, senior associate with the Global Health Security program at the Henry L. Stimson Center will join us to discuss how the 2009 H1N1 influenza (“swine flu”) epidemic tested disease detection and response strategies adopted in the wake of the SARS epidemic. Did the revised International Health Regulations improve communications and cooperation? Where did responses fall short? What can we learn from a still-unfolding outbreak?

Regional Security in the Horn of Africa
Friday, May 15, 2009
US Capitol, Room HC-7
Dr. Terrence Lyons, associate professor of Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Research (ICAR) at George Mason University, will join us for a discussion on regional security in the Horn of Africa.

Global Warming and the Future of the International Climate Negotiations: A View from Southeast Asia
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Stimson Center
Featuring guest speaker Mr. Simon Tay, Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.

Infrastructure and Homeland Security
Monday, May 11, 2009
Cannon House Office Building Room 121
Mr. David Gehr and Mr. Paul F. Mlakar, members of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) will join us to discuss the findings of the ASCE 2009 Infrastructure Report Card.

Actualizing the Administration's Goal of Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Stimson Center Conference Room
The Stimson Center and the Stanley Foundation will host a luncheon to discuss how Security Council Resolution 1540 may be used as a cooperative normative, political, and legal framework in addressing the threat of transnational, nonstate nuclear proliferation and terrorism via capacity-building solutions that meet the concerns of the Global South.

International Police: Improving Professionalism and Responsiveness
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Stimson Center
On 5 May 2009, FOPO held its second workshop of a four-part series on rule of law.

Iran’s Stakes in the New Iraq: Dilemmas for the Region and for Washington
Friday, May 1, 2009
The Stimson Center
The Century Foundation and the Henry L. Stimson Center are pleased to invite you to a luncheon roundtable on Friday, 1 May 2009, to discuss Iran’s Stakes in the New Iraq: Dilemmas for the Region and for Washington.

Book Launch for Islam and Politics: Renewal and Resistance in the Muslim World
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Henry L. Stimson Center
Please join the Regional Voices project for the launch of its new publication, Islam and Politics: Renewal and Resistance in the Muslim World

China and Latin America
Monday, April 27, 2009
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2168
Dr. Cynthia Watson, Chairwoman of the Department of Security Studies at the National War College and a member of the National Committee on US - China Relations, will join us to discuss Chinese foreign policy in Latin America.

Human Rights and Civil Society in Afghanistan
Friday, April 24, 2009
Cannon House Office Building, Room 441
Mr. Ahmad Nader Nadery, commissioner of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission in Kabul, and Mr. Paul van Zyl, cofounder and executive vice-president of the International Center for Transitional Justice, will join us for a discussion of issues regarding human rights and civil society in Afghanistan.

Maritime Security Issues
Monday, April 6, 2009
Cannon House Office Building, Room 122
Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff, former Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, will join us for a discussion of current issues in maritime security. These issues include frequent cases of piracy off the coast of Somalia, the recent clash between the US and China in the South China Sea, and basic questions revolving around the Law of the Sea treaty. These topics and others reflect the growing significance of maritime security in international policy.

Proximity Operations and Rules of the Road for Responsible Space-Faring Nations
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
On April 1, 2009, the Stimson Center hosted a discussion of satellite proximity operations and rules of the road for responsible space-faring nations. Our speakers were Jeffrey Lewis (New America Foundation), David Wright (Union of Concerned Scientists), and Geoffrey Forden (MIT).

The Mexican Drug Cartels
Monday, March 30, 2009
Cannon House Office Building Room 122
Ray Walser, senior policy analyst specializing in Latin America at The Heritage Foundation, joins us for a discussion of the Mexican drug trade.

Iran and Sanctions
Friday, March 27, 2009
Cannon House Office Building, Room 122
Mr. Orde Kittrie, professor of Law at Arizona State University and senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, will join us for a discussion of Iran and sanctions. Their recent work, the Iran Refined Oil Project (IROP), examines the relationship between leveraged engagement and sanctions on international companies that provide Iran with imported gasoline. How do sanctions work and who implements them? What role does Congress play and how do sanctions fit within US foreign policy toward Iran?

Balancing Act - Upholding the Legitimacy of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, Maintaining the Credibility of the Deterrence in the US-Japan Alliance
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Stimson Center
Public panel discussion featuring Brian Finlay, Senior Associate, Stimson Center, and Nobumasa Akiyama, Assistant Professor, Hitotsubashi University. The panel will be moderated by Yuki Tatsumi, Senior Associate, East Asia Program, Stimson Center.

Elections in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan,
Monday, March 23, 2009
Cannon House Office Building Room 122
Dr. Kenneth Katzman, senior Middle East analyst for the Congressional Research Service (CRS), will join us to discuss the pivotal elections in these three key Middle East nations that will occur in 2009.

Iran: Internal Social and Political Dynamics
Friday, March 13, 2009
Cannon House Office Building Room 441
Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, author of Women Building Peace, What They Do, Why It Matters, will join us to discuss internal social and political dynamics in Iran.

Exit Strategies and Peace Consolidation in State-Building Operations
Friday, March 13, 2009
Wilton Park, United Kingdom
Senior Associate William Durch participated in a Wilton Park conference on exit strategies in peace operations.

The Future of the US – Russia Relationship
Monday, March 9, 2009
Cannon House Office Building Room 122
Edward Verona, President, US-Russia Business Council; Laura Holgate, Vice President for Russia/New Independent States (NIS) Programs the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and Matthew Rojansky, Executive Director of Partnership for a Secure America will join us to discuss the future of the US – Russia relationship.

Nuclear Laboratory Capabilities for 21st Century National Security
Friday, March 6, 2009
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2105
Elizabeth “Libby” Turpen, co-director of the Cooperative Nonproliferation Program at The Henry L. Stimson Center, and David O. Overskei, president of Decision Factors Inc., will join us for a discussion of their task force’s recent report, “Leveraging the S&T Capabilities of the NNSA National Laboratories for 21st Century National Security.”

Dr. Turpen Briefs Capital Hill on Task Force Findings
Friday, March 6, 2009
Dr. Elizabeth Turpen, Project Director of a Stimson-led Task Force, briefed members of staff on Capital Hill today regarding the Task Force's report, “Leveraging the Nuclear Weapons Laboratories for 21st Century Security.”

Leveraging Science for Security: A Strategy for the Nuclear Weapons Laboratories in the 21st Century
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Stimson Center
The articulation of a broader vision for the NNSA National Security Laboratories and the Nevada Test Site and a strategy to achieve that vision is critical to the challenge of retaining the premier scientific capabilities at these facilities. Please join members of the Stimson Center's Nuclear Weapons Laboratories Task Force for the release of "Leveraging Science for Security:A Strategy for the Nuclear Weapons Laboratories in the 21st Century."

US-Japan Alliance: Past, Present and Future
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The Stimson Center
Lieutenant General Noboru Yamaguchi, recently retired from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, shared his perspectives on the US-Japan alliance.

Nuclear Trend Lines and Tipping Points: Iran and the Middle East
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Mark Fitzpatrick of IISS, Ellen Laipson of the Stimson Center, and Robert Litwak of the Wilson Center spoke about nuclear non-proliferation in the Middle East.

Global Warming at the Roof of the World: Climate Impacts, Water Resources and the Himalayan Glaciers
Friday, February 27, 2009
The Stimson Center
With Dr. Syed Iqbal Hasnain, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Delhi

Future Defense Exchange and Security Dialogue between Japan and GCC Countries
Friday, February 27, 2009
The Stimson Center
Roundtable discussion featuring Colonel Hitoshi Ishikawa, Visiting Fellow, Stimson Center, JASDF.

Education and Empowerment: Modernization and the Muslim Community in India
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Stimson Center
With Syed Iqbal Hasnain, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Delhi

Iraq: Recent Events and Challenges Ahead
Monday, February 23, 2009
Cannon Building Room 122
Ambassador Charles P. Ries, senior fellow at RAND Corporation and former Minister for Economic Affairs and Coordinator for Economic Transition at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, will join us to discuss recent developments in Iraq and implications for the future of the country.

Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq
Monday, February 23, 2009
The Stimson Center
Author and Former Head of the Iraq Survey Group Charles Duelfer will be speaking at the Stimson Center about his book Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq.

Public Opinion in Iran
Friday, February 20, 2009
US Capitol Building, Room HC-6
Dr. Steven Kull, Director of WorldPublicOpinion.org and the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), will join us to discuss recent polling of public opinion in Iran.

The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Given today’s global crisis, when international institutions are operating under increasing strain, the time is ripe to look back to the 1940s, when a previous generation of U.S. policymakers helped create the bedrock institutions of world order that have lasted for six decades.

Lasers and Rules of the Road for Responsible Space-Faring Nations
Thursday, February 12, 2009
On 12:30pm on Thursday, February 12, 2009, the Stimson center hosted a discussionofthe multiple uses of lasers for outer space activities and how rules of the roadmight help clarify their responsible and irresponsible uses.

Nuclear Trend Lines and Tipping Points: Iran and the Middle East
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
On February 11, 2009, the Stimson Center hosted the second in a series of meetings on Nuclear Trend Lines and Tipping Points.

Exploiting Natural Resources Book Launch
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The Stimson Center
Launch event for the Regional Voices project's publication on Natural Resources.

The New Paradigm in the Taiwan Strait and the Obama Administration
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Dr. Alexander Huang of Taiwan's Tamkang University discussed the recent evolution and prospects for cross-Strait relations as well as the future of U.S.-Taiwan relations.

War in Afghanistan
Monday, February 9, 2009
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2105
Dr. Catherine Dale, specialist in International Security at the Congressional Research Service (CRS), and the lead analyst on strategy and military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, will join us to discuss her recent trip to Afghanistan and the findings of her subsequent report, “War in Afghanistan: Strategy, Military Operations and Issues for Congress.”

Trend Lines and Tipping Points for Nuclear Proliferation
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
On January 14th, 2009, the Stimson Center presented the first in a series of events where new analysis on nuclear trends and tipping points can be considered.

Targeting Spoilers: The Role of United Nations Panels of Experts
Monday, January 12, 2009
Stimson
This workshop launched a new Stimson report and featured presentations by current and former Panel members, US and UN officials, and sanctions experts.

Global Trends 2025: A Changed World
Friday, December 19, 2008
House Cannon Office Building Room 122
When: Friday December 19, 10AM Where: Cannon House Office Building Room 122 Dr. Mathew J. Burrows, director of Analysis and Production Staff at the National Intelligence Council (NIC), will join us for a discussion on the report Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World.

The Post-Election Relationship with Iran
Monday, December 8, 2008
Cannon House Office Building Room 121
Bahman Baktiari, director of Research and Academic Programming in the School of Policy and International Affairs at the University of Maine, will join us for a discussion on the relationship with Iran in the wake of the recent U.S. elections.

Elections and Civil Society in Afghanistan
Friday, December 5, 2008
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 406
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. PLEASE CONTACT JUDITH OLIVER WITH ANY QUESTIONS AT Judith.Oliver@mail.house.gov Mr. Ahmad Nader Nadery, commissioner of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission will join us for a discussion on human rights, good governance and the elections in Afghanistan.

Bellagio Space Security Workshop
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The Bellagio Space Security Workshop was convened with governmental and nongovernmental experts to discuss ways to provide momentum to space diplomacy and to facilitate new diplomatic initiatives.

Delhi in the Middle: India's Water Relations with her Neighbors
Monday, October 27, 2008
The Stimson Center
Featuring Guest Speaker Ramaswamy Iyer, former Secretary for Water Resources in the Government of India.

New Information & Intelligence Needs in the 21st Century Threat Environment
Friday, October 17, 2008
The Stimson Center is located at 1111 19th Street, NW. 12th floor, Washington, D.C. 20036.
The Stimson Center’s project, New Information & Intelligence Needs in the 21st Century Threat Environment, explores how US and EU information and intelligence systems support homeland security by examining the systems for three types of threats: infectious diseases, natural hazards, and terrorism. This year-long study was done in close cooperation with the US Department of Homeland Security and the Swedish Emergency Management Agency. Please join us for the release of the study’s report on October 17 from 2:30-4 pm. The discussion will center on the key findings of the study and topics including interagency coordination, issues of classification and the challenges of incorporating non-traditional security threats into an evolving homeland security paradigm. An EU perspective will be offered on issues including crisis decision-making, the emerging EU crisis management framework, multi-level governance and the need for an increased transatlantic dialogue on shared security concerns.

Senior Associate Victoria Holt participates in the Council on Foreign Relations "Symposium on International Law and Justice: International Obligations Toward Victims of Mass Atrocities"
Friday, October 17, 2008
Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY

Maritime Issues International Workshop
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Dubai, UAE
An invitation-only workshop on maritime issues with experts from the project's focus regions, co-hosted by the Gulf Research Center in Dubai.

Launch of For A Safer Tomorrow Protecting Civilians in a Multipolar World
Monday, September 29, 2008
Senior Associate Victoria Holt will speak at the release of Oxfam International's report, For A Safer Tomorrow Protecting Civilians in a Multipolar World

Cooperation or Conflict? Water Resource Challenges in Bangladesh and South Asia
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Stimson Center
Featuring Ambassador Waliur Rahman, Director of the Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs

Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
Monday, September 22, 2008
US Capitol Room HC-7
Mr. Matthew Rojansky, executive director of The Partnership for a Secure America and Mr. Brian Finlay, Senior Associate with the Cooperative Nonproliferation Program at the Henry L. Stimson Center, will join us for an evaluation of the report, "WMD Report Card; Evaluating US Policies to Prevent Nuclear, CHemical and Biological Terrorism since 2005.

Russian Ambitions vs. Russian Reality
Friday, September 19, 2008
When: Friday, September 19 10AM Where: Cannon House Office Building, Room 122 Dr. Eugene Rumer, senior fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, will join us for an in-depth discussion of Russia's assertive return to the international arena.

Controlling Epidemics: Use of Isolation Measures
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
1111 19th St NW, 12th Floor
Stimson's Global Health Security Program and the AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy convene a panel discussion on use of isolation measures in controlling epidemics

Climate Change and Water International Workshop
Friday, September 5, 2008
Delhi, India
An invitation-only workshop on the impact of climate change on river systems with experts from the project's focus regions, co-hosted by The Energy and Resources Institute in Delhi (TERI).

Dynamic Growth, Stability and Social Change in China
Monday, July 28, 2008
Capitol Building HC-8
Charles Freeman, the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and former managing director of the China Alliance, and Jacques deLisle, the Stephen A. Cozen professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, will join us for a discussion on the dynamic growth and change occurring within China.

Natural Resources International Workshop
Monday, July 28, 2008
Jakarta, Indonesia
An invitation-only workshop on water, forests, and extractive industries with experts from the project's focus regions, co-hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta (CSIS).

Transnational Trends: Middle Eastern and Asian Views Book Launch
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The Stimson Center
Launch event for the Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges project's first major publication.

Senior Associate William Durch Testifies Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Dirksen 419
Senior Associate William Durch Testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Organizations.

Philippine Democracy and Islam
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The Stimson Center
Featuring Ms. Amina Rasul-Bernardo, Lead Convener of the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy.

United States and the Emerging Iraqi Reality
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Senate Russel, Room 188
Ellen Laipson, president and CEO of the Henry L Stimson Center and Ambassador Edward W. Gnehm, Jr. professor for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs, at the Elliott School of International Affairs, will join us for a discussion on the emerging situation in Iraq.

Humanitarian Intervention and the Right to Protect
Monday, July 21, 2008
Senate Dirksen, Room G11
Joel Charny, vice president for policy, Refugees International and Roberta Cohen, senior adviser, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, at the Brookings Institution, will join us for a discussion on the ethical, practical and political challenges presented by humanitarian emergencies in authoritarian states.

Deciphering Tehran: Iranian Politics, Factions and Competition
Friday, July 18, 2008
US Senate, Room SC-4
Dr. Anoush Ehteshami, professor of International Relations, Durham University in the United Kingdom, and Riccardo Redaelli, director of the Middle East Program at the Landau Network—Centro Volta, will join us for a discussion on isolation, engagement, and political factions and currents in Iran.

Cyber Security: The Path Forward
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
US Capitol, Room HC-7
Mr. Michael Aisenberg, counselor to the president of Information and Infrastructure Technologies (IIT) and former director of Government Relations and National Security program manager at VeriSign, will join us for a discussion on cyber security.

Military Reform and Innovation
Monday, July 14, 2008
US Capitol, Room S-115
Dr. Lawrence Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a senior advisor to the Center for Defense Information, and Mr. Benjamin Friedman, research fellow in the Defense and Homeland Security Studies program at the CATO Institute, will join us for a discussion on military reform and innovation to face 21st century threats.

The Rise of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Capitol Building SC-115
Edwin Truman, senior fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics and former assistant secretary of the US Treasury for International Affairs, and Tom Karol, president and chief operating officer of the Sovereign Investment Council, will join us for a discussion on the national security implications of sovereign wealth funds.

Islam and Politics International Workshop
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Islamabad, Pakistan
An invitation-only workshop on Islam and politics with experts from the project's focus regions, co-hosted by the Institute of Policy Studies in Islamabad.

The Role of the U.S. Military in Foreign Assistance
Monday, June 30, 2008
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2105
Dr. Reuben Brigety II, director of the Sustainable Security Program at the Center for American Progress and assistant professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University, and Major Shannon Beebe, senior Africa analyst, Office of United States Army Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence, will join us for a discussion on the role of the military in U.S. foreign assistance.

Iran and Iraq
Friday, June 20, 2008
Senate Capitol, Room S 120
Barbara Slavin, senior diplomatic reporter for USA Today will join us for a discussion on the relationship between Iran and Iraq.

Iranian Politics and Decision Making
Friday, June 13, 2008
Senate Capitol, Room S 115
Elliot Hen-Tov, Princeton University, will join us for a discussion on the dynamics inside Iran’s political leadership.

Human Rights and Counterterrorism
Monday, June 9, 2008
US Capitol Building, Room HC-7
Dr. Martin Scheinin, special rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism at the United Nations will join us for a discussion on human rights and counterterrorism.

Oil and US Security
Friday, June 6, 2008
US Capitol Building, Room SC- 4
Dr. Clifford Singer, professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will join us for a discussion on energy and security.

Demographic and Economic Trends in Iran
Friday, May 23, 2008
Cannon House Office Building, Room 122
Dr. Djavad Salehi-Ishfahani, professor of economics at Virginia Tech and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Dr. Richard Cincotta, consulting demographer to the Long Range Analysis Unit at the National Intelligence Council, will join us for a discussion on the demographic and economic trends in Iran.

Discussion with Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, African Union Special Envoy for Darfur
Thursday, May 22, 2008
During this senior-level discussion, Dr. Salim shared insights from his efforts to resolve the Darfur conflict and his years of experience in international diplomacy.

Manufacturing Possibility Report Release
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
The Henry L. Stimson Center Conference Room
The Cooperative Nonproliferation Program at the Stimson Center hosted its release of Manufacturing Possibility: Leveraging Resources to Meet Global Challenges, Promote Economic Development, and Prevent Proliferation. We were joined by Stanley Roth, Vice President of Asia for the Boeing Company, David Trudil, Executive Vice President of New Horizons Diagnostic Corporation, Randi Levinas, Vice President of Policy and Programs at the US-Russia Business Council, and Anne Phillips from the Global Security Engagement and Cooperation Office at the Department of Energy.

Bad Days in Basra
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
The Henry L. Stimson Center
BAD DAYS IN BASRA: My Turbulent Time as Britain’s Man in Southern Iraq, by Hillary Synnott

Life inside North Korea
Monday, May 19, 2008
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 188
Nancy Lindborg, President of Mercy Corps and co-chair of the InterAction North Korea Working Group, and Dr. Robert E. Springs, Jr., President and CEO of Global Resource Services, will join us for a discussion on the internal struggles of North Korea and its people.

Emerging Leaders in China and Taiwan
Friday, May 16, 2008
Longworth House Office Building, Room 1116
Dr. Cheng Li, senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center of the Foreign Policy Studies program at Brookings Institution and the William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Hamilton College, and Dr. Shelly Rigger, the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics at Davidson College, will join us for a discussion on the emerging political leaders in China and Taiwan.

Maritime Issues Consultation
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
The Henry L. Stimson Center
In preparation for our upcoming meeting in Dubai we gathered a group of experts to discuss the following issues: economic ramifications of maritime activity, environmental trends and consequences, the key actors affected by maritime security, the interrelatedness of these three elements.

Climate Change and Water Consultation
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The Henry L. Stimson Center
In preparation for our meeting in Delhi on global climate change, with a particular focus on transnational water resources, we gathered US-based experts to discuss how global climate change and related water issues are viewed from local, national, and regional perspectives within our regions of interest.

Natural Resources Consultation
Monday, May 5, 2008
The Henry L. Stimson Center
In preparation for our meeting in Jakarta on natural resources and the development-environment dilemma we gathered a group of US-based experts to examine the political economy of natural resources exploitation and the related transboundary and NTS impacts of three sectors: forestry, extractive industries, and water.

Iraqi Insurgency & the Sadrist Movement
Monday, April 28, 2008
Longworth House Office Building, Room 1116
Mr. Peter Harling, Damascus-based Project Director for the Middle East Program at the International Crisis Group, joined us for a discussion on the Iraqi insurgency and the Sadrist movement.

Fixing Failed States
Friday, April 25, 2008
Longworth House Office Building, Room 1116
Dr. Ashraf Ghani, chair of the Institute of State Effectiveness and former finance minister of post-Taliban Afghanistan, and Ms. Clare Lockhart, director of the Institute of State Effectiveness, joined us for a discussion of their recent book, Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World.

Islam and Politics Consultation
Thursday, April 24, 2008
The Henry L. Stimson Center
In preparation for our meeting in Islamabad we gathered US-based experts to discuss the issue of Islam and Politics in particular, religious perspectives on the state, secular political perspectives on religion and state, Islamism and political parties, the role of Muslim identity in economic and social mobilization, the relationship of Islam and national identity and attitudes to violence.

Syria: From Isolation to Acceptance?
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The Henry L. Stimson Center
On April 23, 2008, the Henry L. Stimson Center's Southwest Asia/Gulf project and the Stanley Foundation co-hosted an event titled Syria: From Isolation to Acceptance? Speakers included Andrew Tabler, editor of Syria Today and former Fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs; Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation; and Emile El-Hokayem of the Stimson Center.

Iran and its Neighborhood: Syria and Lebanon
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
U.S. Capitol Building, Room HC-7
Emile El-Hokayem, research fellow from the Southwest Asia/Gulf program at The Henry L. Stimson Center, and Andrew Tabler, fellow from the Institute of Current World Affairs and editor-in-chief of Syria Today magazine, joined us for a discussion on Iran’s economic and political relationship with two key countries in the region.

Misha Glenny on Global Crime
Friday, April 18, 2008
The Henry L. Stimson Center
Mr. Misha Glenny will discuss his latest book, McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld, which makes clear how organized crime feeds off the poverty of the developing world, how it exploits new technology in the forms of cybercrime and identity theft, and how both global crime and terror are fueled by an identical source: the triumphant material affluence of the West.

US Nuclear Weapons Policy and Posture
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 562
Richard Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and Lisbeth Gronlund, senior scientist and co-director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, joined us for a discussion of US nuclear weapons policy and posture issues.

Iran and the West
Friday, April 11, 2008
U.S. Capitol Building, Room SC-4
Ambassador John W. Limbert (ret.), distinguished professor of international affairs at the U.S. Naval Academy, joined us for a discussion on the history and context of the relationship between Iran and the West.

The Political Crisis in Zimbabwe
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Senate Capitol Building, Room 120
Sydney Masamvu, a Pretoria-based analyst with the Southern Africa project for the International Crisis Group, joined us for a discussion on the political crisis in Zimbabwe and the fate of Robert Mugabe.

Geopolitics in the Andean Region
Monday, April 7, 2008
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 188
Mr. Michael Shifter, vice-president of Policy and Director of the Andean Program at Inter-American Dialogue, joined us for a discussion on geopolitics in the Andean region.

The Rise of Dubai
Friday, April 4, 2008
The Henry L. Stimson Center
On April 4, 2008 the Stimson Center hosted Yasar Jarrar, Executive Dean of the Dubai School of Government, for a discussion entitled The Rise of Dubai. Ellen Laipson, President and CEO of the Stimson Center, moderated a discussion following Mr. Jarrar’s presentation.

Security and Politics in Southeast Asia
Monday, March 31, 2008
U.S. Capitol Building, Senate-side Room SC-6
Mr. John Virgoe, Southeast Asia Project Director for the International Crisis Group, joined us for a discussion on the current security and political atmosphere in Southeast Asia.

Counterinsurgency and Changing Islamic Politics in Pakistan's Frontier
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 188
Joshua T. White, a Research Fellow with the Council on Faith & International Affairs and former field researcher in Peshawar, joined us for a discussion on the ongoing insurgency in Pakistan's troubled Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP).

The Dynamics of Politics and Partnerships: The Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1800 K St NW, Washington, DC
The Stimson Center co-hosted the launch of the third edition of the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2008. This book is a comprehensive collection of statistical and analytical material on UN and non-UN peace operations published by the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.

The United States and Japan: Working Together on Global Challenges
Friday, March 14, 2008
The Henry L. Stimson Center
With generous support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan, Stimson hosted a symposium entitled "The United States and Japan: Working Together on Global Challenges" on March 14, 2008.

The UN's Expanding Role in Iraq
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Conference Room
This panel discussion examined the current and prospective role of the United Nations in supporting stabilization and reconstruction in Iraq. This event was co-sponsored with the Council of Organizations of the United Nations Association.

Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable to Attack
Monday, March 10, 2008
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2105
Clark Kent Ervin, director of the Homeland Security Initiative at the Aspen Institute, and former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, joined us for a discussion on the current state of homeland security.

Satellite Shoot-down
Thursday, March 6, 2008
U.S. Capitol Building, Room SC-6
David Mosher, senior policy analyst in Missile Defense and Space Security at Rand Corporation, and Theresa Hitchens, director of the Space Security Project at the Center for Defense Information, joined us for a discussion on the U.S. mission to destroy the errant National Reconnaissance Satellite US-193.

Results of the Russian Presidential Elections
Monday, March 3, 2008
U.S. Capitol Building, Room HC-7
Dr. Angela Stent, professor of Government and Foreign Service and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service joined us for a discussion on the results of the Russian presidential election.

Crisis in Kenya
Friday, February 29, 2008
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2105
An International Crisis Group analyst based in Kenya joined us for a discussion on the rigging of the Presidential elections and the post-election violence in Kenya.

The Next 100 Project: UNSCR 1540 in the Caribbean
Friday, February 29, 2008
Hilton Santo Domingo
The Stimson Center, in collaboration with the Office of the Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States, the Stanley Foundation, and the Government of Canada, hosted an experts meeting on implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 in the Dominican Republic.

A New Paradigm for War
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Senate Dirksen Building, Room 628
General Sir Rupert Smith, former Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Powers Europe, and Dr. William Durch, Senior Associate, Henry L Stimson Center, joined us for a discussion on civil- military relations and the conduct of modern war.

The Rising Cost of Defense
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Senate Capitol Building, Room S115
Professor of Politics Daniel Wirls, at the University of California Santa Cruz, joined us for a discussion on escalating defense costs

Iraq: The Sadrists and the Surge
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Senate Capitol Building, Room S115
Joost Hilterman, deputy program director for Middle East/North Africa for the International Crisis Group, joined us for a discussion on the war in Iraq and the political situation on the ground in the wake of the surge.

The Serbian Presidential Election
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Senate Capitol Building, Room SC-6
Dr. James Lyon, Belgrade-based Senior Balkans Advisor for the International Crisis Group, joined us for a discussion on the implications of the Serbian presidential elections.

Navigating Law of the Sea
Monday, February 4, 2008
Cannon House Office Building, Room 121
Captain Patrick J. Neher, director of International and Operational Law for the Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the U.S. Navy, joined us for a discussion of the UN Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Central Asian Energy Reserves
Friday, February 1, 2008
Cannon House Office Building, Room 122
Martha Brill Olcott, senior associate with the Russian & Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joined us for a discussion about energy reserves in Central Asia.

Friday, February 1, 2008

US Military Relations with Pakistan
Friday, January 25, 2008
Longworth House Office Building, Room 1116
Colonel David Smith, US Army (ret), former US Defense Attaché in Islamabad, joined us for a discussion on the Pakistani Army and the ongoing insurgency in Pakistan.

The UN Mission in Darfur
Monday, January 14, 2008
Senate Dirksen, Room G11
David Mozersky, Horn of Africa director for International Crisis Group, and Laura Sitea, political affairs officer, Office of Operations, United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), joined us for a discussion of the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur.

The Nuclear Posture Review
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Senate Russell, Room 385
Dr. Janne Nolan, professor of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, New America Foundation, will join us for a discussion on the Nuclear Posture Review.

The Outlook for Pakistan’s Elections
Monday, December 17, 2007
Senate Dirksen, Room G 11
Samina Ahmed, International Crisis Group’s South Asia Director based in Islamabad, will join us for a discussion on the political outlook in Pakistan.

The Saffron Revolution Revisited
Friday, December 14, 2007
House Cannon, Room 121
Professor David Steinberg, author of Turmoil in Burma: Contested Legitimacies in Myanmar, and senior Distinguished Professor and Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, will join us for a discussion on the current state of affairs in Burma.

Deciphering Iran and the National Intelligence Estimate
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 6
Dr. David Kay, senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, former head of the Iraq Survey Group, and former IAEA chief nuclear weapons inspector, and Sharon Squassoni, senior associate in the Nonproliferation Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will join us for a discussion on Iran and the recent National Intelligence Estimate.

Towards a More Secure and Stable Lebanon: Prospects for Security Sector Reform
Thursday, December 13, 2007
The Henry L. Stimson Center
Lebanon is going through a critical period of its history. The security vacuum left by the withdrawal of the Syrian forces in 2005, the campaign of political violence and assassinations of leading public figures, the continued presence of armed militias operating from Lebanon outside the authority of the state and supported by external actors, and the recent war between Lebanon and Israel emphasize the necessity and importance of rebuilding Lebanon’s security sector to address challenges that could fatally threaten stability in Lebanon and its neighborhood.

Ungoverned Territories: Understanding and Reducing Risks of Terrorism
Friday, December 7, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room S120
Dr. Angel M. Rabasa, Senior Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation, will join us for a discussion of ungoverned spaces—failed or failing states, and what risks they pose for international peace and U.S. national security.

Reducing the Psychological Price of War
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Senate Dirksen, Room G11
Dr. Jonathan Shay, Congressional Research Service and author of “Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming” will join us for a discussion on preventing psychological and moral injury in military service.

The Future Status of Kosovo
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 6
Soren Jessen-Petersen, Guest Scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace and former special representative of the UN Secretary General and head of the UN Mission in Kosovo, will join us for a discussion on the future status of the UN-administered province of Kosovo.

U.S. Military Operations and the Evolution of War
Monday, December 3, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 6
Colonel Thomas X. Hammes (USMC ret.), author of The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century and frequent commentator on counterinsurgency operations, will join us for a discussion on the evolution of warfare and what the U.S. can do to overcome new and developing military challenges.

An Oil-Free Foreign Policy?
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Senate Dirksen, Room G11
David Sandalow, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of Freedom from Oil: How the Next President of the United States Can End the United States’ Oil Addiction, and Vijay Vaitheeswaran, correspondent for The Economist and author of ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future, will join us for a discussion on US energy consumption and US dependence on imported oil.

Tracking the Trade in Illicit Nuclear Weapons
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room S120
David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, physicist, and former UN weapons inspector, will join us for a discussion on the illicit trade in nuclear weapons.

Private Military Contractors and U.S. Policy
Monday, November 19, 2007
Senate Dirksen, Room G 11
Dr. Peter Singer, director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution and author of Corporate Warriors, will join us for a discussion on the current state of affairs and future policy options for the U.S. regarding private military contractors.

Back from the Brink: Evaluating Progress in Colombia
Friday, November 16, 2007
Senate Dirksen, Room G 11
Dr. Peter DeShazo, director of the CSIS Americas Program, and former deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, will join us for a discussion on Colombia’s record in reversing instability and economic distress.

The U.S. - Saudi Relationship: Looking Ahead
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Senate Captiol, Room S 211
Ambassador Walter Cutler, former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and former president of Meridian International Center, and Allen Keiswetter, adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute and former deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, will join us to discuss the current state and prospects for US-Saudi relations. What reforms may be necessary to ensure the future stability of this strategic relationship?

Revisiting China's Anti-Satellite Test
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Senate Dirksen, Room G 11
Dr. Gregory Kulacki, senior analyst, Union of Concerned Scientists, will join us to discuss the decisions that led to China's January 2007 test of an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) against one of its own satellites.

The J Curve: Regime Transitions and U.S. Foreign Policy
Friday, November 9, 2007
Senate Russell, Room 188
Dr. Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, will join us for a discussion of the J curve, a model for describing how countries transition from stable, closed autocracies to equally stable, open democracies.

The State of Emergency in Pakistan
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 4
Ambassador Teresita Schaffer, director of the South Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, will join us for a discussion on the current state of emergency in Pakistan.

Meeting the Intelligence Workforce Gap
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 4
Mr. Tom Fox, director of the Annenberg Leadership Institute at the Partnership for Public Service, and Dr. Ronald Sanders, chief human capital officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, will join us for a discussion of the state of the intelligence workforce.

Managing International Bio-Risk
Friday, October 26, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 6
Dr. Julie Fischer, director of the Global Health Security Program at the Henry L. Stimson Center, will join us for a discussion on the risks and regulation of the rapidly expanding global biodefense enterprise.

Protecting Civilians from Mass Atrocities: Strategies, Safe Areas, and Lessons from the Field
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Conference Room, Henry L. Stimson Center
This roundtable explored specific missions and strategies aimed at protecting civilians from physical harm, including lessons from “humanitarian interventions” in the 1990s; the use of “safe areas” such as in Northern Iraq and the Balkans; and recent experiences in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the UN mission (MONUC) has developed unique and innovative strategies to prevent and respond to widespread attacks against civilians.

Merchant of Death
Friday, October 19, 2007
Capitol Building, Room SC-6
Douglas Farah, former West African bureau chief of the Washington Post, and Stephen Braun, Pulitzer-prize winning national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, will join us for a discussion about Victor Bout, the focus of their new book Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes War Possible.

Intelligence Reform
Friday, September 28, 2007
Senate Dirksen, 406
Dr. Amy Zegart, Associate Professor at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, will join us for a discussion on the work of intelligence agencies after the Cold War.

Iraq: After the Surge
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 4
Shawn Brimley, Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and Colin Kahl, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service will join us for a discussion of their report Phased Transition: A Responsible Way Forward and Out of Iraq.

Senior Associate William Durch Addresses the International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centers
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Folke Bernadotte Academy, Stockholm, Sweden
Stimson Senior Associate and Future of Peace Operations Program co-director William Durch gave the keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centers on September 25, 2007, hosted by the Folke Bernadotte Academy in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Future of US Japan Relations
Friday, September 21, 2007
Senate Captiol, Room S-115
Yuki Tatsumi, Research Fellow in the East Asia Program at the Henry L. Stimson Center, and Dr. Mark Manyin, Congressional Research Service, will join us for a discussion on Japanese politics and the outlook for US Japan relations

UN Sanctions and Africa
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Senate Russell, Room 188
Alex Vines, head of the Africa Program at Chatham House, London, will join us for a discussion on the use of sanctions in Africa.

US Russia Relations
Monday, September 17, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 6
Dr. Andrei Kortunov, President of the New Eurasia Foundation, will join us for a discussion on U.S.-Russia relations.

Iraq, Reconciliation and the Wider Middle East
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 6
Ambassador Mokhtar Lamani, formerly the Baghdad-based Arab League’s Special Permanent Representative for Iraq, will join us for a discussion of the impact of the Iraqcrisis on the Middle East.

The Financial War on Terror
Monday, September 10, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room S120
Dr. Ibrahim Warde, Fletcher School, Tufts University, will join us to discuss the US government’s efforts to tackle terrorist finances.

Military Education, Training and Current Conflicts
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room S120
Andrew Exum, Fellow at the Washington Institute, and Colonel Allen Irish, US Army Reserve, will join us for a discussion on training and educating officers for current and future conflicts.

Facing Post-Transition Challenges in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Stimson Center Conference Room
The Future of Peace Operations Program hosts a roundtable on the challenges facing the DRC one year after landmark elections.

Afghanistan: An NGO View from the Ground
Friday, August 3, 2007
Senate Russel, Room 188
Ciaran Donnelly, Country Director for the International Rescue Committee based in Kabul, will join us for a discussion of humanitarian operations in Afghanistan.

Pew Research Center: Attitudes and Values of Muslim Americans
Friday, July 27, 2007
Senate Dirksen, Room 406
Luis Lugo, Director, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research, Pew Research Center, and Farid Senzai, Project Adviser, Director of Research, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, will discuss results and implications from the first-ever, nationwide, random sample survey of Muslim Americans conducted by the Pew Research Center.

The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program and the Future of the US Nuclear Arsenal
Monday, July 23, 2007
Senate Russel, Room 188
Dr. Robert Nelson, Senior Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, Global Security Program, will join us to discuss the Department of Energy's plans to design and build a new family of nuclear warheads under the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program.

Iraq, Refugees and Regional Stability
Friday, July 20, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room S-120
Dana Graber Ladek, from the International Organization on Migration, and Kristele Younes, from Refugees International, will discuss the refugee crisis unfolding in Iraq and neighboring countries.

Pakistan's Tribal Areas and Islamic Extremism
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 6
Samina Ahmed, South Asia Project Director, International Crisis Group, will join us for a discussion on the struggle between Islamic extremism, democratic forces, and the Musharraf regime.

London Bombings
Friday, July 13, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room S 115
Dr. Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University, will join us to discuss the recent terrorist attacks in Britain.

Greater than the Sum of Its Parts?
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Event for the Launch of Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? Assessing "Whole of Government" Approaches to Fragile States.

The Next 100 Project: Addressing the Nexus of Security and Development
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Hotel Silken Berlaymont, Brussels
In June 2007, the Cooperative Nonproliferation Program held a workshop in Brussels on facilitating implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540.

Okinawa in the US-Japan Alliance in the 21st Century
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
The Henry L. Stimson Center
The Stimson Center, in partnership with the Okinawa Peace Assistance Center, hosted a group of Asian security policy experts in a day-long conference on the role Okinawa in the US-Japan security alliance. Keynote address by Dr. Kurt M. Campbell, Co-founder and CEO of Center for New American Security.

A Decade of One Country, Two Systems: Current and Future Developments in Hong Kong
Monday, June 25, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 6
Bates Gill, CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, Derek Mitchell, CSIS Senior Fellow, James Tang, Distinguished Professor, Hong Kong University will join us for a discussion of China and the future of Hong Kong.

Roundtable on Iraq
Friday, June 22, 2007
The Henry L. Stimson Center
With Ellen Laipson and Professor Paolo Cotta-Ramusino

China's Quest for Oil
Friday, June 8, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 4
Erica Downs, China Energy Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Jill Shankelman, from the World Bank, will join us for a discussion of China's rising search for energy.

Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Cannon Office Building Room 121
Joshua Kurlantzick, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will join us to discuss China's soft power as a tool to grow its global influence.

The Coalition for Security and Competitiveness
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Stimson Center Conference Room A
The Henry L. Stimson Center's Cooperative Nonproliferation Program hosted a briefing on export control reform by the Coalition for Security and Competitiveness.

Deciphering Iran
Friday, June 1, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 4
Dr. Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at Council on Foreign Relations, will join us to discuss regime dynamics and political developments in Iran.

Mekong River System at Risk: Hydropower and the Development versus Environment Debate
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Henry L. Stimson Center
Richard Cronin discussed the conflict between development and the environment arising out of the rush to exploit the huge hydroelectric power potential of the Mekong River and its tributaries. The presentation drew upon the findings from his recent three-week research visit to Southeast Asia. The trip included meetings at the Asian Development Bank’s headquarters in Manila; the ADB Environmental Operations Center in Bangkok; the Mekong River Commission in Vientiane, Laos, and at Yunnan University in Kunming—the capital of China’s Yunnan Province.

Syria: Dilemmas of Engagement
Monday, May 21, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 115
Mona Yacoubian, Special Adviser on the Muslim World Initiative at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), and Murhaf Jouejati, a Syrian-born Professor of Middle East Studies at the National Defense University’s (NDU) Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, will join us for a discussion on the complexities of U.S. engagement with Syria, both positive and negative.

Nonproliferation Landscape: An EU Perspective
Thursday, May 17, 2007
House Capitol, Room HC 7
German Ambassador Friedrich Gröning, Commissioner of the Federal Government for Disarmament and Arms Control, will join us for a broad discussion of nonproliferation and how it is perceived by the European Union Presidency.

Radicalization of European Jihadi Networks
Monday, May 14, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room S-120
Dr. Marc Sageman will join us for a discussion about the evolution of Al Qaeda, and the causes of the radicalization of European Jihadi networks.

Climate Change, Conflict, and Foreign Assistance
Friday, May 11, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 4
Dr. Edward Miguel, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, will join us for a discussion on climate change and conflict.

Nigeria's Elections and Its Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
Thursday, May 10, 2007
House Capitol, Room HC 8
Dr. Robert A. Pastor, Director, Center for Democracy and Election Management at American University, will join us for a discussion on the outcome and the implications of the 2007 Nigerian Elections.

Nuclear Black Markets: Pakistan, A.Q. Khan and the Rise of Proliferation Networks
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 4
Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, will join us for a discussion on Pakistan's nuclear program, the A.Q. Khan network, and the illicit trade in fissile materials.

Follow the Money: A Balanced National Security Toolbox?
Monday, May 7, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 115
Gordon Adams, Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, will join us for a discussion on rebalancing the national security tool box.

The Crisis In Zimbabwe
Friday, May 4, 2007
Senate Russel, Room 188
Ambassador Anderbrhan Giorgis, Africa Director for the International Crisis Group, discusses political developments in Zimbabwe.

Reliable Replacement Warhead and the Future U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex
Friday, April 20, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 4
John Harvey, Director, Policy Planning Staff of the National Nuclear Security Administration, discusses plans for the future of the U.S. nuclear weapons program.

Nuclear Rollback
Monday, April 16, 2007
U.S. Capitol, Room HC-7
Rebecca Hersman, Senior Research Fellow at the National Defense University, presents an overview of conclusions stemming from the WMD Center's Nuclear Rollback Study.

The Latest Trends & Challenges: The Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
The Stimson Center hosted a launch of the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, 2007, a publication of New York University's Center on International Cooperation.

The Rise of Modern India
Monday, April 2, 2007
Senate Dirksen, Room 406
Edward Luce, of the Financial Times and author of “In Spite of Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India”, discusses the economic and social challenges facing the subcontinent.

A Look from the Inside and Dismantling Iraq's Militias
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
The Henry L. Stimson Center
Two presentations made by analysts from the Baghdad Institute for Public Policy Research

China's Military Modernization
Friday, March 23, 2007
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 562
Dr. David M. Finkelstein, Director of the China Studies Center at the Center for Naval Analysis Corporation, provides an overview of Chinese military modernization.

China's Emerging Role in the Middle East
Friday, March 23, 2007
House Capitol Room, HC-8
Dr. Jon Alterman, Director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Middle East Program, discusses China's emerging role in the Middle East.

North Korea: Nuclear Agreement and Beyond
Thursday, March 22, 2007
House Longworth, Room 1116
Selig Harrison, Asia Program Director at Center for International Policy, discusses the recent North Korean nuclear agreement.

The Challenges of Inter-Agency Cooperation
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
House Capitol Room, HC-8
Larry Wilkerson, U.S. Army Colonel (retired) and former Chief of Staff of the State Department, leads part two of the SNC series on National Security Reform where he discusses his experiences in conducting inter-agency operations within the national security framework.

Turkey and the West
Monday, March 19, 2007
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430
Ambassador Mark Parris, former US Ambassador to Ankara and current Brookings visiting fellow, discusses Turkey’s relations with the West.

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Senate Dirksen, Room G11
Lester Brown, president and founder of the Earth Policy Institute, discusses how consumer consumption affects the global economy and the potentially catastrophic environmental trends that could result from unlimited consumption.

Talk by Sheikha Lubna Al Qassimi
Monday, March 12, 2007
Talk by Sheikha Lubna Al Qassimi at the Stimson Center.

Organizing for Nation Building
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room S-211
Ambassador James Dobbins, Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at RAND, discusses how the United States can best structure its efforts to stabilize and reconstruct post-war societies.

The Revival of the Taliban
Friday, February 23, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 4
Steve Coll, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the book Ghost Wars : The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, discusses the revival of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Twenty-First-Century Peace Operations
Friday, February 23, 2007
United States Institute of Peace
Twenty-First-Century Peace Operations, edited by William J. Durch, book launch at United States Institute of Peace, co-sponsored by the Henry L. Stimson Center.

United Nations-African Union Coordination on Peace and Security in Africa
Friday, February 23, 2007
Mission of Canada to the United Nations
The Stimson Center and Center on International Cooperation at NYU co-sponsored a workshop on UN-AU coordination.

Halting Widespread and Systematic Attacks on Civilians: Military Strategies and Operational Concepts
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
A high-level workshop in Accra, Ghana, hosted by the Stimson Center and the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center to address options for protecting civilians at risk of violence and operationalizing the Responsibility to Protect.

Lessons from the First 50 Years of Space
Friday, February 9, 2007
Security for a New Century
Clay Moltz, Deputy Director, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and David Wright, Co-Director and Senior Scientist for the Global Security program, Union of Concerned Scientists, discuss space weapons and the recent Chinese test.

International Nuclear Forensics Regime
Friday, February 2, 2007
Security for a New Century
Daniel H. Chivers and Jonathan S. Snider from the University of California discuss options for accelerated national and international efforts to develop nuclear forensic capabilities to attribute interdicted and post-detonation nuclear material samples to their source.

The Future of US Nonproliferation Programs in the 110th Congress
Thursday, February 1, 2007
The Henry L. Stimson Center Conference Room
The Cooperative Nonproliferation Program released two new publications that detail politically feasible ways the US Government can improve its threat reduction and nonproliferation programs.

The Future of Bosnia and The Balkans
Monday, January 29, 2007
Security for a New Century
Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling, High Representative and European Union Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, joined us for a discussion about the future of Bosnia and the region.

When War and Children Collide: How to Protect Children from Conflict
Friday, January 26, 2007
Zlata Filipovic, author of “Zlata's Diary” (1994), which recounts her teenage years in wartime Sarajevo, and Ambassador (ret.) Donald Steinberg, Vice President, International Crisis Group, joined us for a discussion on the impact of violence on children.

The End of the War as We Know It?
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Senate Dirksen, Room 406
General Sir Rupert Smith discusses whether we are facing a new age of warfare.

Iraq: Beyond the Surge
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Senate Capitol, Room SC 4
Anthony Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Paul Hughes, Senior Program Officer, US Institute of Peace, discuss the current security situation in Iraq.

Does a Demographic Transition Promote a Democratic Transition?
Thursday, January 25, 2007
The Henry L. Stimson Center
Richard Cincotta's presentation on demographics and democratic reform

Chinese Activities in Africa: Implications for US National Security
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Cannon House Office Building, Room 121
Bates Gill and Jennifer Cooke of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discuss the implications of China's activities in Africa.

Consequences of Nuclear Terrorism in Pakistan
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Stimson Conference Center
Visiting Fellow Abdul Mannan presented his research on securing civilian nuclear materials during transport inside Pakistan.

The Next 100 Project: Building a Global Toolkit to Support 1540 Implementation
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
United Nations Headquarters, New York City
The Cooperative Nonproliferation Program convened representatives from over fifty countries at UN Headquarters in New York to discuss ways to enhance the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540.

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Monday, January 1, 2007

Military Power & Diplomacy
Thursday, December 21, 2006
House Capitol, Room HC 5
A discussion on the role of the US military as a strategic element of national power and international diplomacy lead by General (ret.) Anthony Zinni, former Commander of the US Central Command, and Admiral (ret.) Dennis Blair, former Commander of the US Pacific Command.

The Dragon’s Shadow: The Rise of China and Japan’s New Nationalism
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The Henry L. Stimson Center
Benjamin Self and Richard Cronin present upon the launch of a new Stimson Center publication on the Sino-Japanese standoff.

African Priorities, US Interests: A Discussion of Current Approaches to Peace and Security in Africa
Friday, December 15, 2006
Hosted by FOPO co-director Victoria Holt and moderated by Clifford Bernath, Senior Fellow at the National Defense University’s Africa Center for Strategic Studies, the event featured four distinguished African defense attachés from the embassies of Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and Rwanda.

U.S. National Security Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region
Friday, December 15, 2006
House Capitol, Room HC 8
Kurt M. Campbell, senior vice president, Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security, and director of the International Security Program at CSIS, discuss policy options to address U.S. national security challenges in the Asia-Pacific region.

Israel's Security Environmnent Post-Lebanon War
Friday, December 15, 2006
The Henry L. Stimson Center
With Yossi Alpher, Co-editor, Bitterlemons and Bitterlemons International

The Bioweapons Threat and Policy Options: A Survey of Senior U.S. Policy Makers
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
House Capitol, Room HC 6
Dr. Amy Smithson, Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses the threat of biological weapons and the policy options to address them.

US Foreign Assistance and America's Image Abroad
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Senate Dirksen, Room 406
Dr. Lael Brainard, Vice President, The Brookings Institution, and Director of the Global Economy and Development Program, joined Ken Ballen, President of Terror Free Tomorrow, for a discussion on resolving international security challenges and advancing US national interest through effective foreign aid.

A Nuclear Fuel Bank: Risk and Response in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Senate Capitol, Room SC 4
Lawrence Scheinman, Distinguished Professor of the Monterey Institute Center for Non Proliferation Studies, and Laura Holgate, Vice President for Russia/New Independent States Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative, discuss the concept of a nuclear fuel bank to assure the international supply of nuclear fuel.

Energy and Russia's Foreign Policy
Monday, December 4, 2006
Senate Russell, RM 328A
Dr. Anatol Lieven, Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation, discusses Russian foreign policy, energy supplies and Russia's relations with its neighbors.

NSPD 44 and Directive 3000.05: Military Support for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations
Friday, November 17, 2006
Senate Dirksen, Room 628
Ambassador John Herbst, Coordinator, Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization, and Dr. Jeb Nadaner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations, discuss military support for stability operations and the implementation of National Security Presidential Directive 44.

Disintegrating Iraq: Implications for Saudi National Security
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Senate Capitol, Room SC 6
Nawaf Obaid, Managing Director of the Saudi National Security Assessment Project, discusses the war in Iraq, regional politics and the impact on Saudi Arabia.

Japan's Defense Against Ballistic Weapons: Is Enemy Attack Capability Necessary?
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Stimson Center
Col. Kota Tanaka presented his research concerning the feasibility of enemy strike capability for Japan, given recent security concerns, in a discussion on November 16, 2006.

The Next One Hundred Project Launch
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Stimson Center Conference Room
The Cooperative Nonproliferation program launched its Next One Hundred Project on implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540.

New Stimson Publication Launch--The Responsibility to Protect Civilians in Conflict
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
The Future of Peace Operations program hosted a book launch for The Impossible Mandate?, by Victoria K. Holt and Tobias C. Berkman. The event featured a panel discussion, moderated by Anne C. Richard of the International Rescue Committee, and was followed by a reception.

Track-Two Diplomacy and the Middle East
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Senate Dirksen, Room 430
Dr. Steven Spiegel from the University of California discusses the most recent meetings of the Conference on Regional Security in the Middle East which took place in Athens.

Conducting Policy-Revelant Social Science Research in Iraq
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Beirut, Lebanon
Workshop

Roundtable discussion on Saudi views of Iraq and Iran
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
The Henry L. Stimson Center
with Nawaf Obaid, managing director of the Saudi National Security Assessment Projec

The Elections in Congo
Monday, October 30, 2006
Senate Dirksen, Room 628
Caty Clément, Central Africa Project Director, International Crisis Group, discusses the results of Sunday's election in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Responsibility to Protect in Africa
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Accra, Ghana
In October 2006, the Future of Peace Operations program participated in a workshop analyzing the growing norm of a "responsibility to protect" civilian populations from mass killing, genocide and ethnic cleansing. The event was held at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center in Accra, Ghana.

Counterinsurgency and Information Operations
Friday, October 20, 2006
Senate Dirksen Building, Room 430
Ed O'Connell, Senior Analyst, RAND Corporation, discusses counterinsurgency and information operations.

US Policy Toward Korean Peninsula (invitation-only)
Friday, October 20, 2006
Stimson Center Conference Room
Don Oberdorfer (Director, US-Korea Institute at SAIS) will discuss the issues salient to US policy toward the Korean Peninsula.

Roundtable discussion on Iraq and Arab diplomacy
Friday, October 13, 2006
The Henry L. Stimson Center
with Ambassador Mokhtar Lamani, Arab League Representative in Iraq

Inside Afghanistan
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Sarah Chayes, Former Correspondent with National Public Radio, discusses the current political and security challenges in Afghanistan.

Iraq and America: Addressing the Challenges
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Capitol Hill
featuring Gordon Adams, Avis Bohlen, Kenneth Katzman, Laith Kubba, Dov Zakheim, and Ellen Laipson

Cuba- After Castro?
Friday, September 29, 2006
Dr. Julia Sweig, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, discusses the current situation in Cuba and the prospects for the country post Castro.

Maritime Dimensions of the Asia-Pacific Security (invitation-only)
Monday, September 25, 2006
Stimson Center Conference Room
Gary Roughead (Commander, US Pacific Fleet) shared the efforts by the US Navy to maintain the stability in the Asia-Pacific region.

Russian Views on Space Security
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Stimson Conference Center
Alexei Arbatov and Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin of the Carnegie Moscow Center gave a presentation and answered questions on the current state of Russian civilian and military space programs.

Prospects for Peace: UN Peacekeeping Missions in the Middle East and Sudan
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Jane Holl Lute, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, discusses the challenges of peacekeeping in Lebanon and Darfur.

Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: Transforming the U.S.-Russian Equation
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Alexei Arbatov, Carnegie Moscow Center and Major General Vladimir Dvorkin discuss U.S. Russian relations and nuclear deterrence.

Iraq and America: Addressing the Challenges
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Center for National Policy
featuring Senator Jack Reed, Representative Chris Van Hollen, former Iraqi speaker Hajim al-Hasani, Peter Galbraith, Paul Pillar, Robin Raphel and Ellen Laipson

From Rocks to Juice: An Overview of Nuclear Power
Monday, September 18, 2006
Benn Tannenbaum of the American Association for the Advancement of Science discusses civilian nuclear power.

Hezbollah After the War in Lebanon
Friday, September 15, 2006
Ammar Abdulhamid, Visiting Scholar, Brookings Institution and Emile El Hokayem, Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center,discuss Lebanon, Hezbollah and its two regional allies, Syria and Iran.

China and Japan National Security: A Japanese Perspective
Friday, September 15, 2006
Dr. Yasuhiro Matsuda, Joji Konoshima Distinguished Scholar at the U.S.-Asia Institute, discusses the rise of China as perceived through a Japanese lens.

Dealing with Iran's Nuclear Aspirations
Monday, September 11, 2006
House Capitol, Room HC 6
George Perkovich, Vice President for Global Security and Economic Development and Director of the Nonproliferation program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Karim Sadjadpour, Iran Analyst for the International Crisis Group discusses Iran's nuclear calculus and U.S. policy options.

Understanding the GCC Perceptions of Iran's Nuclear Program
Friday, September 8, 2006
The Henry L. Stimson Center
featuring Afshin Molavi, Frederic Wehrey and Emile El-Hokayem

Richard Cronin lectures to more than 600 Cambodian university students about U.S. Foreign Policy toward Southeast Asia
Monday, August 14, 2006
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
s part of its American Speaker Series, the U.S. Embassy's Public Affairs Section hosted Dr. Richard Cronin for a series of lectures with university audiences in Phnom Penh.

From Timor-Leste to Darfur: New Initiatives for Enhancing UN Policing Capacity
Thursday, August 10, 2006
UN Police Advisor Mr. Mark Kroeker provided a briefing of some of the recent reform initiatives aimed at enhancing UN policing capacity. Workshop participants discussed these efforts and proposed new ideas for further improving the effectiveness of police officers in UN peace operations.

PNTR and Deepening Vietnam-U.S. Ties: Historical Breakthrough or Geopolitical Continuity?
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Conference Room
Dr. Brantly Womack from University of Virginia, Frances Zwenig from U.S.-ASEAN Business Council and Alexander Vuving from Harvard University will discuss the issue.

Regional Implications of the US-India Nuclear Deal
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Stimson Conference Center
Stimson Center Visiting Fellow Wing Commander Adil Sultan presented his research on the Regional Implications of the US-India Nuclear Deal.

Stimson Center hosts a Roundtable Discussion on PNTR and Vietnam's Accession to the WTO
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Saddam's Delusions: Inside the Regime
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Senate Dirksen, Room SD 628
Kevin Woods, Institute for Defense Analysis.

Islam and the West: A Great Divide?
Monday, July 10, 2006
House Capitol, Room HC 8
Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center and director of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, will discuss the findings from the 2006 Pew Global Attitudes survey.

The Future of International Justice
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Senate Russell, 328 A.
Mark Vlasic, previously a prosecution attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and a trainer for the Iraqi judges in the Saddam Hussein trial, and Jerry Fowler, the staff director of the Committee on Conscience, spoke on the future of international justice.

North Korea: An NGO's Perspective
Friday, June 23, 2006
Longworth House Building 1116
Steve Linton, head of the Eugene Bell Foundation, discussed the foundation’s recent work in the DPRK.

Israel-Palestine: Disengagement and the Prospects for Peace
Friday, June 23, 2006
Senate Capitol, Room SC 6
Ami Ayalon, Israeli Labor Party Knesset member joined us for a discussion on the current political situation in Israel and the Middle East and prospects for the future.

Haiti: After the Elections
Monday, June 19, 2006
United States Capitol Building (SC4)
Tim Carney, former US Ambassador to Haiti and Mark Schneider, Senior Vice President of the International Crisis Group.

US-India Nuclear Cooperation
Monday, June 12, 2006
Cannon Building, Room 121
Michael A. Levi and Charles D. Ferguson from the Council on Foreign Relations discuss the recent nuclear deal concluded between the Bush administration and the government of India.

The Peace Process in Mindanao and Political Islam in the Southern Philippines
Friday, June 9, 2006
Dirksen Senate Building, Room 419
With Eugene Martin, Director, and Astrid Tuminez, Senior Research Associate of the U.S Institute of Peace Philippine Facilitation Project.

Tracking Bad Guys & Illicit Networks: A Talk with a Member of UN Expert Panels on Targeted Sanctions in Africa
Thursday, June 8, 2006
Alex Vines, Director of Chatham House and current Chair, UN Panel of Experts for Côte d’Ivoire, discussed his work with Stephen Morrison, Director of the Africa Program at CSIS.

Fourth Generation Warfare
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Senate Dirksen, Room 628
William Lind, Free Congress Foundation and Chet Richards author of "Neither Shall the Sword."

German-Iran Relations
Monday, May 22, 2006
Senate Dirksen, Room 628
Baron Paul von Maltzahn, German Ambassador in Tehran will join us for a discussion of German policy towards Iran.

Implementing the Chemical Weapons Ban: A Status Report
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Senate Capitol, Room SC6
Dr. Jonathan B. Tucker, a senior fellow specializing in chemical and biological weapons at the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies will discuss the current challenges facing the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

First Responders, Surge Capacity, and Informed Health Care Staff: Are We Ready to Respond to a Public Health Emergency?
Friday, May 5, 2006
Senate Dirksen, Room SD 628
Philip Coyle, Senior Advisor to the President of the Center for Defense Information, and Dr. J. Eric Dietz, from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security.

Iran's Nuclear Ambitions: US and Russian Perspectives
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
The Henry L. Stimson Center Conference Room
With Dr. Victor Mizin, Visiting Fellow at the Stimson Center and Vice-President of the independent Institute for Strategic Assessments in Russia

Pakistan and the Fear of Islamic Extremism
Friday, April 21, 2006
Seante Dirksen, Room 419
With Dr. Nasim Zehra, Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Asia Center, and Dr. Frederic Grare, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Terrorism and the Internet
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Seante Capitol, Room SC6
With Gabriel Weimann, Professor of Communication at the University of Haifa.

Public Health Countermeasures: What is the Impact of Pathogen Resistance on our Vaccine and Drug Supply?
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Senate Dirksen, Room 419
Dr. Gigi Kwik Grönvall from the Center for Biosecurity discusses the impact of pathogen resistance on our vaccine and drug supply.

Transitional Justice and State Building in Afghanistan
Monday, April 10, 2006
Senate Capitol, Room SC6
With Larry Sampler, Institute for Defense Analysis and Alex Thier, Senior Rule of Law Advisor, US Institute of Peace.

Stimson Center and US State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) co-hosts a Workshop on Japan and East Asian Integration with Kenneth Pyle and Richard Cronin
Thursday, April 6, 2006

Early Detection and Reporting of Public Health Threats: How Can We Catch a Threat Before it Becomes an Epidemic?
Monday, April 3, 2006
Senate Dirksen, Room 430
Dr. Diane Matuszak, from the Maryland Department of Health and Dr. Mark Smolinski, from the Nuclear Threat Initiative, will join us to discuss early detection and reporting of health threats.

US Training for International Peacekeeping: The Global Peace Operations Initiative
Friday, March 31, 2006
A discussion with two Administration experts leading the work on this program, Michael Smith of the State Department and Quentin Hodgson of Department of Defense.

Roundtable discussion on Iraq with Sheikh Fatih al-Ghitaa, director of the Thagalayn Center for Strategic Center
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
The Henry L. Stimson Center

High Anxiety, Low Understanding, Real Interests: US Military Concerns about the International Criminal Court and Assessing a Way Forward
Monday, March 27, 2006
The Future of Peace Operations hosted a Roundtable to introduce the findings from its new report, "On Trial: The US Military and the International Criminal Court"

Briefing on US-ASEAN Relations and the Political Situation in Thailand
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Biosecurity: Identifying the Threat
Monday, March 13, 2006
Senate Dirksen, Room 628
With Lonnie D. King, Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University.

Dirty Money: Crime, Corruption and Illicit International Cash Flows
Monday, March 6, 2006
Senate Capitol, Room SC6
Raymond Baker, Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy, discusses the challenge posed by illicit cash flows.

Defense and State: Mandate for Partnership (Congressional Staff and Federal Employees Only)
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Longworth House Office Building, Room 1539
odd Harvey-from the Defense Department's Office of Stability Operations and Chris Hoh from State's new Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization discuss Directive 3000.05: "Military Support for Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction Operations" and National Security Presidential Directive 44.

Chile: The Search for Justice and Accountability
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Senate Dirksen, Room 628
With Michael Shifter, Vice President for Policy at the Inter-American Dialogue, discusses ending impunity and the search for truth and reconciliation in Chile.

Security Sector Reform in the Gulf
Thursday, February 23, 2006
The Henry L. Stimson Center
Workshop

The Global Challenge of Human Trafficking
Friday, February 17, 2006
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 406
Simone Monasebian, of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime(UNODC) discusses the challenge posed by human trafficking.

Economic and Social Development in Palestine
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419
With Ross Anthony, Associate Director, RAND Corporation and Jim Prince, President of the Democracy Council, discuss economic and social development in Palestine.

Security in Israel and Palestine: After the Rise of Hamas
Friday, February 10, 2006
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419
Ambassador Robert Hunter, Senior Advisor, and Seth Jones, Political Scientist, both with the RAND Corporation and Rob Malley from the International Crisis Group, discuss the current security challenges in Israel and Palestine.

Introduction to the People's Liberaltion Army: PLA 101 (invitation-only)
Thursday, February 9, 2006
Large conference room
Ken Allen's briefing on the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

Dr. Cronin publishes recommendation on TIFA in The Wall Street Journal Asia
Thursday, February 9, 2006

Defense Policy Review Initatives: View from Tokyo (invitation-only)
Monday, February 6, 2006
The Henry L. Stimson Center
An off-the-record roundtable discussion with Dr. Takashi Kawakami (Takushoku University)

Iraq in the Wake of the Elections
Monday, January 30, 2006
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430
With Dr. Amatzia Baram, Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern history at the University of Haifa and Michael Eisenstadt, Director, Military & Security Studies Program, Washington Near East Institute, discuss the political and security challenges for Iraq after the official election results.

IIE Presentation
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Chechnya and the North Caucasus: Radical Islam, Insurgency and Human Rights
Monday, January 23, 2006
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430
Dr. Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and Dr. Anatol Lieven, Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation, discuss the political and security outlook for Chechnya and the North Caucasus in the wake of the recent elections.

Supporting Iraq's Emerging Policy Community
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Beirut, Lebanon
Workshop

China and Internet Security
Friday, January 13, 2006
Andrew McLaughlin, Senior Policy Counsel for Google, discusses China's efforts to control the internet.

Syria: The UN Investigation and the Challenge to Asad
Thursday, January 12, 2006
With Dr. Steven Heydemann, Director, Center for Democracy and the Third Sector at Georgetown University, discusses Syria and regional politics as the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri poses serious challenges for the Asad regime.

Roundtable discussion on Iraq with Kamal Field el-Basri, Iraqi Deputy Minister of Finance
Friday, January 6, 2006
The Henry L. Stimson Center

The US Military and the International Criminal Court: Issues and Implications
Thursday, January 5, 2006
On January 5th and 6th, 2006, the Stimson Center hosted a two-day workshop with experts from the military, academic and legal communities to explore current issues involving the International Criminal Court and its potential impact on US armed forces.

The Challenge of Dealing with Syria
Monday, December 19, 2005
The Henry L. Stimson Center
featuring David Ignatius and Joshua Landis

Elections and Political Stabilization in Afghanistan
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419
With Dr. Deborah Alexander, Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan.

India after the US-India Nuclear Initiative
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Stimson Conference Center
The Stimson Center hosted Amb. T.P. Sreenivasan and Dr. M.R. Srinivasan at a joint Stimson - Brookings - Carnegie event on the India-US nuclear initiative.

Global Pandemics: Threats and Challenges to Biosecurity
Friday, December 2, 2005
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 328A
With Dr. Julie Fischer, Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center.

Breakfast with Nikolai Ponomarev-Stepnoi
Thursday, December 1, 2005
The Henry L. Stimson Center Conference Room
With Nikolai Nikolaevich Ponomarev-Stepnoi, Vice President of the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow

Southeast Asia and 'Rising' China: A Political Economy Perspective on US Interests and Policies
Monday, November 21, 2005

Victoria Holt Testifies before Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Dirksen Room 419
Victoria Holt testifies before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations regarding African Organizations and Institutions.

Denying Armageddon: Preventing Terrorist Use of Nuclear Weapons
Monday, November 14, 2005
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 188
With Dr. Michael Hynes, Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation.

"Jointness" of the Japan Self-Defense Forces: Lessons from American Experience
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Board Room
Off-the-record discussion with Col. Koki Kaida (Visiting Fellow, The Henry L. Stimson Center)

Assessing China's Military Space Capabilities
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Senate Capitol, SC6
Dr. Gregory Kulacki, Senior Analyst and China Project Manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists, will join us for a discussion on China's Military Space Capabilities.

Civil-Military Relations in Humanitarian Operations
Friday, November 4, 2005
Dirksen Senate Room 406
With Mike Hess, Assistant Administrator, US Agency for International Development; and Roy Williams, President, Center for Humanitarian Cooperation.

Sudan, What's Really Going On?
Monday, October 24, 2005
House Rayburn, Room 2105
With Sally Chin, Refugees International advocate; Jonathan Morgenstein, consultant; and field staff from the International Rescue Committee.

Screening and Discussion of "Last Best Chance"
Saturday, October 22, 2005
St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM

Vietnam-China-United States Trilateral Dialogue in Nha Trang, Vietnam
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Nha Trang, Vietnam

Nationalism or realism?: Japan's new leaders' view toward China (invitation only)
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Board Room
Off-the-record discussion led by Tsuneo "Nabe" Watanabe (Senior Fellow, Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute.

Whither Oil?: Does 2005 Mark a Turning Point?
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
House Longworth Room 1116
With Chris Flavin, President of Worldwatch Institute; and Kjell Aleklett from Uppsala University in Sweden.

Conference in Vietnam on the Role of Legislatures in Oversight of Public Finance
Friday, October 14, 2005

Assessing China's Military Space Capabilities
Sunday, October 9, 2005
Stimson Conference Center
Gregory Kulacki, Senior Analyst and China Project Manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists, discussed problems with current U.S. assessments of China's military space capabilities.

The 2005 Commitment to Development Index
Friday, October 7, 2005
Senate Capitol, Room SC 4
With David Roodman, Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development.

Pakistan: A Status Report
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Stimson Conference Center
The Stimson Center hosted Najam Sethi and Jugnu Mohsin, of the Daily Times and Friday Times of Pakistan.

The Iraqi Constitutional Process
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Senate Dirksen, Room 419
Barbara Bodine, former US Ambassador to Yemen; and Robert Looney, Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey.

The Challenge of Weak and Failing States
Monday, October 3, 2005
Senate Dirksen, Room 430
With Dr. Jack Goldstone, Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, and Dr. Stewart Patrick, Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development.

Rethinking Modern War: The Realities of Stabilization and Reconstruction in Iraq
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Senate Dirksen Room 419
With A. Heather Coyne, Chief of Party at the US Institute of Peace, Baghdad; and Major Ike Wilson, US Military Academy, West Point.

From Threat to Opportunity: Exploiting Environmental Pathways to Peace
Monday, September 26, 2005
Senate Dirksen Room 419
With Geoffrey Dabelko, Director of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Suicide Bombing
Friday, September 23, 2005
Senate Russell, Room 328-A
With Dr. Scott Atran from the University of Michigan, and Dr. Bruce Hoffman from the RAND Corporation.

Southeast Asia and 'Rising' China: A Political Economy Perspective on US Interests and Policies
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Dupont Circle Conference Room
With H.E. Chang Heng Chee, Ambassador of Singapore; Dr. Catharin Dalpino, Visiting Associate Professor, Georgetown University; Mr. William Zarit, Foreign Commercial Service, US Department of Commerce; Ms. Ellen Laipson, President and CEO, The Henry L. Stimson Center; and Dr. Richard Cronin, Director, Southeast Asia Program, The Henry L. Stimson Center

The African Union’s Mission and the Prospects for Peace in Sudan
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Senate Russell, Room 188
With Ron Capps, Desk Officer for Sudan, US State Department.

US Foreign Assistance and the National Interest
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Senate Capitol, SC-6
With Ambassador Princeton Lyman, former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.

Confidence and Cooperation in South Asian Waters
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Stimson Conference Center
The Stimson Center hosted members of the Symposium on Confidence and Cooperation in South Asian Waters along to receive an update on their progress in discussing positive maritime measures to be taken in and around the waters of South Asia.

Demilitarization of the Siachen Glacier
Thursday, September 8, 2005
Stimson Conference Center
The Stimson Center hosted Brigadier Asad Hakeem and Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal. Brigadier Hakeem retired from the Pakistan Army in 2005 after thirty-two years of service, including command of a light infantry battalion in Siachen. Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal retired in 2003 as the Deputy Assistant Chief of Integrated Defence Staff.

Network-Centric Warfare: its implications for Japan's defense posture
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Board Room
Presentation by the Stimson VF Col. Yukiya Yamakura.

Future of the US-Japan naval cooperation in East Asia: its prospects and challenges (invitation only)
Friday, July 29, 2005
Board Room
CAPT. Gojiro Watanabe (Visiting Fellow, Stimson Center) will present the result of his research.

The Use Force: War Powers in a System of Checks and Balances
Friday, July 29, 2005
Senate Russell, Room 385
With former Congressmen Mickey Edwards (R-OK), and David Skaggs (D-CO).

Inaugural Event of the New Southeast Asia Project -- Roundtable on the July 23-29 ASEAN Meetings in Vientiane
Friday, July 29, 2005

Israeli Policy Towards the UN (For Congressional Staff Only)
Monday, July 18, 2005
Dirksen Senate Building, Room 419
With Mr. Leshno Yaar, Deputy Director General for International Organizations and UN at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Iran’s Presidential Election
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Senate Russell, Room 328 A
With Karim Sadjapour, an Analyst with International Crisis Group, and Dr. Shaul Bakhash, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University.

The Rise of India as an Economic Power
Monday, July 11, 2005
Senate Russell, Room 188
With Ron Somers, Chairman of the US-India Business Council.

A Central Asia Partnership: Afghanistan and its Neighbors
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Russell Senate Building Room 188
With Professor S. Frederick Starr, Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute.

The Politics of Yasukuni (invitation only)
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Board Room
Tsuneo Watanabe (formerly senior fellow, CSIS) will discuss developments within Japan surrounding Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine.

Evidence of Global Environmental Change - Risks to US and global security
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Longworth 1537
With Dr. Steve Lonergan, former Director of UNEP's Division of Early Warning and Assesment, and Special Advisor on Environmental Assessment to the Executive Director of UNEP.

Prospects for UN Reform
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Dirksen Room 430
With Ambassador Jan Eliasson, recently elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Post-Conflict Stability Operations and Rule of Law: Lessons Learned in Afghanistan and Iraq
Friday, June 17, 2005
Dirksen Room 419
With Colonel David S. Gordon, former senior legal advisor and Rule of Law Officer for the U.S. Office of Military Cooperation in Afghanistan.

US Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula: The Way Forward (invitation only)
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Board Room
Victor Cha will discuss recent developments in US policy toward the Korean Peninsula.

Afghanistan's Reconstruction: A Status Report
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Longworth 1539
With Carla Koppell, Director of Policy Initiatives, Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace; and Farida Azizi, a leading Afghan advocate for peace and reconstruction.

UN Peacekeeping: Recommendations for Halting Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
US Capitol SC-6
With H.R.H. Prince Zeid Al-Hussein, Jordan's Ambassador to the United Nations.

A Discussion with H.R.H. Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
The Future of Peace Operations program hosted the Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein.

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Article IV and Iran
Monday, June 6, 2005
Russell Senate Building, Room 188
With Larry Scheinman, Advisor to the Expert Group on nuclear fuel cycles, and Dan Poneman, former Senior Director of the NSC for nonproliferation issues.

Screening and Discussion of Last Best Chance
Friday, June 3, 2005
National Atomic Museum, NM
With Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-NM); Dr. Paul Stokes, Former Chief of the Methodology Section for on-site inspections at the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna; and Dr. Gloria E. Chavez, from the Sandia National Laboratories.

Intervention and Conflict Transformation
Friday, June 3, 2005
Dirksen Senate Building, Room 419
With Stephanie Blair, first head of field office at the OSCE Mission in Kosovo; Dana Eyre, U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Iraq Reconstruction; Jim Wasserstrom, founder of UNMIK's Office Overseeing Publicly Owned Enterprises; and Mike Dziedzic, Program Officer at the US Institute of Peace.

NATO's Evolving Role in the Middle East: The Gulf Dimension
Friday, June 3, 2005
The Henry L. Stimson Center
NATO's Evolving Role in the Middle East: The Gulf Dimension

The Future of the Russia’s Nuclear Industry: Next Steps for Engagement
Thursday, June 2, 2005
Dirksen 419
With Igor Kudrik, editor-in-chief of Bellona Web of The Bellona Foundation in Norway.

2005 Trafficking in Persons Report (For Congressional Staff Only)
Thursday, June 2, 2005
Cannon Room 345
With Ambassador John R. Miller.

Debt Cancellation for Impoverished Countries (for Congressional Staff Only)
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
Rayburn House Building, Room 2220

Countering Anti-Americanism: A Long-Term Strategy
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Student Union Bldg, Wisconsin Room
With Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), and Dr. Julia Sweig from the Council on Foreign Relations.

Armed Groups, Terrorism and Peace Processes: Implications for US Security Policy
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Longworth 1537
With Charles Snyder, the Department of State's Senior Representative on Sudan; Rob Ricigliano, Director of the Institute of World Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and Elisabeth Reusse-Decrey, President of the international humanitarian organization Geneva Call.

The Global War on Terror: Over-militarized? Under-resourced? Both?
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Longworth 1116
With Andrew Bacevich, Retired Army Officer, Vietnam Vet, author and professor at Boston University.

Assessing Stability in Afghanistan: The Impact of the Illicit Drug Trade
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Dirksen 430
With Dr. Barnett Rubin, Chair of the U.S. Institute of Peace’s (USIP) Afghanistan Working Group.

Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Role of Illegal Arms and Illicit Trade
Monday, May 23, 2005
Kathi Austin has just returned from recent field investigations with the UN Panel of Experts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). She will share with us her findings and views of the Panel�s work to monitor the UN embargo prohibiting weapons flowing to militias in the DRC and within the region.

Inclusive Security: Women Peacebuilders in Sudan
Monday, May 23, 2005
Dirksen 419
With Dr. Sidiga Washi, a consultant for United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Population Fund, and Lona LoWilla, peace building coordinator in the Nairobi office of OXFAM.

Environment and Conflict: The Great Lakes Region
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Russel 236
With Mr. Pekka Haavisto, Chairman of UN Environmental Program’s (UNEP) Post Conflict Assessment Unit.

The Global Partnership Against WMD Proliferation
Monday, May 16, 2005
Senate Dirksen, Room 106
With Chris Shapardanov, Director, Global Partnership Bureau, Foreign Affairs Canada; and Laura Holgate, Vice President for Russia/Newly Independent States at the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

Prospects for Peace in South Asia
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Stimson Conference Center
The Stimson Center hosted Rafiq Dossani, senior research scholar and director of the South Asia Initiative at Stanford University's Asia-Pacific Research Center. Mr. Dossani is the co-editor of Prospects for Peace in South Asia published by Stanford University Press.

A World of Nuclear Crisis
Thursday, May 5, 2005
Rayburn 2456
With Joseph Cirincione.

Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Dirksen 419
With General William Burns (USA, retired) and Steve Fetter, Professor at the University of Maryland.

Engineering Peace: The Military Role in Postconflict
Monday, May 2, 2005
Russell Senate Building, Room 188
With Colonel Garland H. Williams, former military assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works.

North Korea: From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand?
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 608
With Peter Beck, Director of the International Crisis Group's North East Asia Project.

Wars, Disasters, Governance: The Need for Civil-Military Collaboration in the Post-9/11 World
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
PSU
With Retired Colonel James F. Powers, Jr. from the Joint Special Operations University, and Ms. Lynn Renken from Mercy Corps.

Militant Recruitment in Pakistan
Monday, April 25, 2005
Dirksen 419
With Dr. Christine Fair, Program Officer for South Asia Studies at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

The Economic Impact of Peace and Stability Operations
Friday, April 22, 2005
Dr. Michael Carnahan presented the results of the first phase of the Economic Impact of Peacekeeping project.

Wars, Disasters, Governance: The Need for Civil-Military Collaboration in the Post-9/11 World
Thursday, April 21, 2005
University of Washington
With Retired Colonel James F. Powers, Jr. from the Joint Special Operations University; Ms. Kathy Ward from the International Crisis Group; and Lieutenant Colonel Charles Westover from the 364th Civil Affairs Brigade.

THE MILLENNIUM ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT: Risks to US Interests and National Security
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Russell 328A
With Dr. Walter Reid, Director of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and former Vice President of the World Resources Institute, and Jacob Scherr, Director of International Programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The Anti-Secession Law After One Month: Implications for cross-Strait Relations
Friday, April 15, 2005
Board Room
A roundtable discussion with Alan D. Romberg on the anti-secession law and its implications for cross-Strait relations.

The First 3 Hours: Incident Response Capacity
Friday, April 8, 2005
Capitol Building, SC-4
With Dr. John Powers, founder of FirTH Alliance, LLC and former Executive Director of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP); Dr. Jon Peha, professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University; and Charles W. Cross, former commander of the San Diego Sheriffs Department.

Spoiler Networks and Illicit Trade
Thursday, April 7, 2005
The Future of Peace Operations program invited Alex Yearsley, of Global Witness, and Douglas Farah, freelance writer and former Washington Post journalist, to discuss conflict fueled by illicit trade and illegal resource exploitation in West Africa.

Homeland Security Reorganization: The Next Steps
Friday, April 1, 2005
Dirksen Room 430
With David Heyman from the Center Strategic and International Studies, and James Jay Carafano from The Heritage Foundation.

Human Rights: Commitment and Progress
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2325
With representatives from Southern Command.

Report from Tehran: Iran's Strategy to Isolate the U.S.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Longworth 1116
George Perkovich, a nuclear non-proliferation specialist with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Strategic Communications
Friday, March 18, 2005
Senate Dirksen, Room 419
With Vince Vitto, member of the Defense Science Board.

Financial War on Terror
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 188
With Dr. Ibrahim Warde, author of "The Financial War on Terror."

The Global Threat Reduction Initiative
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 628
With Assistant Secretary Paul Longsworth, Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation.

Middle East Partnership Initiative (Staff Only)
Monday, March 14, 2005
Longworth 1116
With Thomas Carothers, Senior Associate and Director of the Rule of Law and Democracy program for the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace.

Lessons of Iraq and the Future of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (invitation only)
Friday, March 11, 2005
Board Room
Col. Koichiro Bansho will discuss his experience in Iraq and the future of JSDF off-the-record.

Kashmir: A Status Report
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Stimson Conference Center
The Stimson Center hosted Mirwaiz Umar Farooq who shared his thoughts on tripartite and intra-Kashmir dialogue.

US-Japan Alliance: the way forward (invitation only)
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Board Room
Minister Kanehara will speak off-the-record about the future of US-Japan alliance.

Politics, Democracy and Islam
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2318
With Dr. Douglas Ramage of the Asia Foundation.

China's Military Space Doctrine
Thursday, March 3, 2005
Stimson Conference Center
Dean Cheng, a senior analyst at the Center for Naval Analysis Corporation, presented his research on Chinese military space doctrine.

Fighting HIV/AIDS: Drug Delivery in the Developing World
Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Russel Building Room 328A
With Dr. Eric Goemaere, Head of Mission for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in South Africa.

Tsunami Aftermath (invitation only)
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Board Room

The Pentagon's New Map
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 385
With Dr. Thomas Barnett, former professor at the Naval War College, and author of "The Pentagon's New Map."

A "New Wave" of Reform for Ukraine
Friday, February 11, 2005
Longworth House Office Building, Room 1116
With Kalman Mizsei, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Assistant Administrator of UNDP, and Anders Aslund, Director of the Russian and Eurasian Program and Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment.

The Changing Nuclear Threat
Friday, February 4, 2005
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 406
With Dr. Sig Hecker, former Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Russian Military Space Program
Thursday, February 3, 2005
Capitol Building, Room SC-6
With Dr. Pavel Podvig of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and editor of the book "Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces."

Russia's Space Forces
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Stimson Conference Center
Pavel Podvig, Research Associate at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), presented his research on Russia's space forces.

Palestine Post-Elections
Monday, January 31, 2005
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430
With David Makovsky, Director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Ziad Asali, President of the American Task Force on Palestine.

Looking Long-Term in a Post-9/11 World
Thursday, January 27, 2005
University of Colorado - Boulder (Math 100)
With Professor Colin Dueck (University of Colorado at Boulder), Professor Martin Cook (United States Air Force Academy), and Professor John Paul Lederach (University of Notre Dame).

Nation Building: Transition to and from hostilities
Monday, January 24, 2005
Russel Senate Office Building, Room 385
With Dr. Craig Fields of the Defense Science Board.

The UN in SE Asia: Coordinating the World's Largest Relief Effort
Friday, January 14, 2005
With Mr. Kevin Kennedy, Chief of the Humanitarian Emergency Branch, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Children at War
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Rayburn House Office Building
With Dr. P.W. Singer from the Brookings Institution.

Space and Defense: A look at the pros and cons
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Longworth House Office Building, Room 1539
With Peter Huessey, Senior Defense Associate at the National Defense University Foundation, and Michael Krepon, Director of the Space Security Project at the Henry L. Stimson Center.

Bioterrorism
Monday, January 10, 2005
Dirksen Senate Office Building
With Jeanne Guillemin, Senior Advisor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Security Studies Program (SSP), and author of "Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State- Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism."

Test
Monday, January 10, 2005
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Future of the US-Japan alliance: how Japan’s defense posture should change for a sustainable alliance
Monday, December 20, 2004
Board Room
Col. Katsuki Takata, Visiting Fellow, makes an exit presentation on the future of the US-Japan alliance.

Syria: The Time for Dialogue and Change is Now
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430
With Mr. Ammar Abdulhamid, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

The US and the UN in Iraq: A Vital Partnership
Friday, December 10, 2004
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419 (Foreign Relations Committee Room)
With Dr. Jehangir Khan, Head of the Iraq Team in the UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA).

Roundtable on Building African Capacity for Peace Operations: A Hands-On Approach with Mark Malan
Thursday, December 9, 2004
Mark Malan of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center (KAIPTC) in Accra, Ghana discussed the development and current work of the KAIPTC. Mr. Malan also drew from his years of experience in African peace support operations to discuss the continent's capacity for peacekeeping.

Hill Screening of "Seeds of Peace"
Monday, December 6, 2004
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2261

The Future of Israeli-Palestinian Relations Post-Arafat
Friday, December 3, 2004
Longworth House Office Building, Room 1116
With Dr. Scott Lasensky, Program Officer, Research and Studies Program, US Institute of Peace.

Allies or Blowback? Central Europe and the US in the Years Ahead
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Longworth House Office Building, Room 1116
With Tomas Valasek, Director of Center for Defense Information in Brussels, Belgium.

Fourth Generation Warfare: Do We Have the Right Tools for Today's Wars?
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Longworth House Office Building, Room 1116
With Colonel TX Hammes (author of "The Sling and the Stone"), US Marine Corps.

Escalation Control in a Nuclear Environment
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
New Delhi, India
The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies and the Henry L. Stimson Center co-sponsored an event on "Escalation Control in a Nuclear Environment" in New Delhi.

Filling the Ranks: Transforming the US Military Personnel System
Monday, November 8, 2004
2318 Rayburn House Office Building
With Cindy Williams, Senior Fellow, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A Realistic National Security Structure for the Reserve Component
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
2212 Rayburn House Office Building
With Michele Flournoy, Senior Adviser for the International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Proliferation Security Initiative-a case study of US-Japan alliance cooperation within the coalition of willing
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Board Room
CDR Daisuke Kajimoto, Visiting Fellow, Stimson Center will discuss US-Japan cooperation in the Proliferation Security Initiative.

The US and the UN in Iraq: a Vital Partnership
Friday, October 15, 2004
Capitol Building, HC-6
Event postponed.

Crafting Peace in Kashmir: Through a Realist Lens
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Stimson Conference Center
Vice Admiral Verghese Koithara presented his latest book, "Crafting Peace in Kashmir: Through a Realist Lens," at a joint CSIS-Stimson Center event.

Russia, Chechnya, and US policy post-Beslan Crisis
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
2105 Rayburn House Office Building
With Katya Sokirianskaya, from Russian human rights organization Memorial, and Sarah Mendelson, a Russia specialist at CSIS.

Exporting Capability: The National Guard's Partnership Program
Friday, October 8, 2004
Russell Senate Office Building, Room 332
With Colonel Mark Kalber, Office of International Affairs, National Guard Bureau.

Israeli Disengagement and Prospects for Palestine
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Senate Russell, Room 189
With Nigel Robert, Country Director for the West Bank and Gaza, World Bank.

Addressing the Dangers of Weak States
Monday, October 4, 2004
This event has been cancelled.

Iraq Reconstruction: Progress or Peril?
Friday, October 1, 2004
Senate Dirksen, Room 419
With Bathsheba Crocker, Co-Director, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, CSIS and Frederick Barton, Senior Advisor, International Security Program, CSIS.

Promoting People-to-People Contact Across the Kashmir Divide
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Stimson Conference Center
Shah Ghulam Qadir gave a presentation on confidence building measures along the Kashmir divide.

Reversing Weak and Failing States
Monday, September 27, 2004
1539 Longworth House Office Building
With Patrick Cronin, Vice President for Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies and Ellen Laipson, President, Henry L. Stimson Center.

Exploiting IT for Homeland Security
Friday, September 17, 2004
Russell 328A
With Zoe Baird, President, Markle Foundation and Jim Barksdale, Co-Founder, The Barksdale Group, both co-chairs of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.

Changing Culture and Strategy: Transforming Education and the Cost of National Security
Monday, September 13, 2004
With Vice Admiral Arthur Cebrowski, Director, Office of Force Transformation, Department of Defense.

Protecting the Troops: The Dangers of Small Arms Proliferation
Friday, September 10, 2004
2318 Rayburn
With David Diaz, Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Steph Pico, Department of State.

Transatlantic Cooperation in the War on Terror: Reversing the Spread of Radical Islamism
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
2318 Rayburn
With Robin Niblett, Executive Vice President and Director, Europe Program, CSIS and Julianne Smith, Deputy Director, International Security Program, CSIS.

Protecting Against Nuclear Terrorist Attacks
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
With Dr. Charles Ferguson, Scientist-in-Residence, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Vulnerabilities and Challenges in Asia: Critical issues in U.S.-Japan Cooperation for Homeland Security and Nonproliferation
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Board Room
Mr. Katsuhisa Furukawa (Senior Research Associate, Monterey Institute of International Studies), discussed his ideas on critical issues for U.S.-Japan cooperation in homeland security and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Reconsideration of the US-Japan alliance
Thursday, August 19, 2004
Board Room
Col. Yasuo Kishimoto, Visiting Fellow, Stimson Center discussed challenges for US-Japan alliance in post-9/11 security environment.

Venezuela's Political-Military Environment: Now and After the August 15 Referendum
Thursday, July 29, 2004
With Dr. Norman Bailey, Senior Fellow at the Potomac Foundation, and Col. Kenneth LePlante, Executive Liaison Officer and Operations Coordinator for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.

Adapting the Threat Reduction Model: Redirecting WMD Expertise in Iraq
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
With Anne M. Harrington, Deputy Director, Bureau of Nonproliferation's Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction at the State Department, as well as Rich Jarvis and Alex Dehgan.

Roundtable on The Role of the UN in Counter-Terrorism: Building Capacity to Combat International Terrorism
Monday, July 26, 2004
A The Role of the UN in Counter-Terrorism: Building Capacity to Combat International Terrorism with Ambassador Curtis A. Ward, Expert Advisor on Technical Assistance and Liaison with Regional and International Organizations, United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee

Update on the Millennium Challenge Account
Friday, July 23, 2004
With Charles Applegarth, Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Intelligence Reform: Lessons from Goldwater-Nichols
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
With Dr. Flynt Leverett, Visiting Fellow at Brookings and former Senior Director for the Middle East Initiative at the National Security Council.

Follow the Money: Financial Networks for Terror
Monday, July 19, 2004
With Douglas Farah, foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and author of Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror.

Crisis in Sudan: The Other Darfur
Monday, July 19, 2004
With John Prendergast, the International Crisis Group's Special Advisor on Africa.

Assessing the Upper House Elections in Japan: Is the political tide in Tokyo shifting?
Friday, July 16, 2004
Henry L. Stimson Center invited Mr. Tsutomu Watanabe (Correspondent, Asahi Shimbun) and Dr. Andrew L. Oros (Assistant Professor, Washington College) to share their perspectives on the July 11 Upper House election in Japan at a roundtable discussion.

Adapting the Threat Reduction Model: Redirecting WMD Expertise in Iraq
Friday, July 16, 2004
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED.

Colombia: Counter-Narcotics, Counter-Insurgency, Counter-Terrorism?
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
2318 Rayburn House Office Building
With Adam Isacson, Director of Programs, Center for International Policy, David Spencer, specialist on combating terrorism, Science Applications International Corp, and Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project, Institute for Policy Studies.

Follow the Money: Financial Networks for Terror
Friday, June 25, 2004
With Douglas Farah, foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and author of Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror.

Bio/Chem Redirect: US "Dual-Use" Security Investment
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
With Laura Schmidt Williams, Bio/Chem Redirection program, Dr. Jason Rao, Bio Industry Initiative, and Dr. Mike Balady, Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Hearts and Minds: An Arab Reformist's Perspective
Friday, May 21, 2004
Senate Dirksen, Room 106
With Dr. Hossam Badrawi, Member of the Egyptian Parliament, Chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee and leader within the reformist wing of the National Democratic Party.

Stimson Center Initiative Proposes Code of Conduct to Help Prevent Dangerous Military Activities in Space
Thursday, May 20, 2004
A new study by the Space Security Project of The Henry L. Stimson Center proposes a Code of Conduct for responsible space-faring nations.

US-Russia Corporate Partnerships: Advancing Nonproliferation and National Security
Monday, May 17, 2004
With Dr. Vic Alessi, President, US Industry Coalition and David Trudil, New Horizons Diagnostics Corporation.

Roundtable with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations, Dr. Joseph Collins
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
This Future of Peace Operations event featured a presentation and discussion with DASD for Stability Operations, Dr. Joseph Collins. Dr. Collins addressed US options for increasing effective international capacities for peace operations including the Global Peace Operations Initiative.

Iraq: A Strategy for Progress
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
With Gayle Smith and Michael Pan, both of the Center for American Progress and co-authors of the recently released "Iraq: A Strategy for Progress."

Threats, Challenges and Change: The UN at a Crossroads
Friday, May 7, 2004
With Stephen Stedman, Research Director, United Nations High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.

Osama
Thursday, May 6, 2004
A private screening of the Golden Globe-winning tale of life under and after Taliban rule in Afghanistan, with remarks by His Excellency Said Tayeb Jawab, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United States.

Osama
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
A private screening of the Golden Globe-winning tale of life under and after Taliban rule in Afghanistan, with remarks by His Excellency Said Tayeb Jawab, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United States.

Transatlantic Cooperation: A Strategy for the Greater Middle East
Monday, May 3, 2004
With Dr. Ronald D. Asmus, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund.

Participation and Conflict Prevention in East Africa's Largest Slum
Friday, April 30, 2004
With Rye Barcott, active-duty Marine and founder, Carolina for Kibera, Inc., an international humanitarian organization.

Biosecurity and Safety: The Role of Private Industry
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Russell Senate Office Building, room 236
With Terence Taylor, President and Executive Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies and Michael Moodie, President, Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute.

Roundtable on Preparing for Peace Operations: Sweden and the EU, Balancing Civil and Military Response
Friday, April 16, 2004
Ambassador Michael Sahlin, Director General of the Folke Bernadotte Academy in Sweden discussed the growing need for more effective civilian contributions to planning and conducting complex and post-conflict peace operations.

US Space Policy: Dominance or Assurance?
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
With Brigadier General Simon "Pete" Worden, former Director for Transformation, Space Missile Systems Center and Michael Krepon, Founding President, Henry L. Stimson Center, author of Space Assurance or Space Dominance?: The Case Against Weaponizing Space.

The Changing Role of Japan's Self Defense Force in International Security and its Impact on Civil-Military Relations
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Henry L. Stimson Center
Presentations by Major General Noboru Yamaguchi and Professor Takako Hikotani about the evolving role of Japan's Self Defense Forces followed by a roundtable discussion at the Henry L. Stimson Center.

The Future Security Environment in the Middle East
Monday, March 29, 2004
With Dr. Nora Bensahel, Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation and Dr. Jon Alterman, Director, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Terror.net
Monday, March 22, 2004
With Gabriel Weimann, Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace and Professor of Communications, Haifa University, Israel.

The Demographics of Discord: Global Demographic Transition and the Risk of Conflict
Monday, March 22, 2004
With Richard Cincotta and Robert Engelman, Population Action International, co-authors, The Security Demographic: Population and Civil Conflict After the Cold War.

Open Societies and Extremist Threats: International Cooperation as a Strategy of Prevention
Friday, March 19, 2004
With Zeyno Baran, Director, International Security and Energy Programs, Nixon Center.

Mass Graves: Iraq's Legacy of Terror
Thursday, March 18, 2004
A viewing and discussion of Mass Graves, a film funded by USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives about Saddam Hussein's killing fields.

Taiwan Elections Update: A Turning Point with Security Implications?
Monday, March 15, 2004
With Dr. Richard Bush, Director, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, Brookings Institution, formerly Chairman and Managing Director, American Institute in Taiwan.

Haiti: How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
With Dr. Robert Pastor, Vice President of International Affairs and former Senior Advisor to the 1994 Carter-Nunn-Powell mission which restored democracy to Haiti.

Convention on the Law of the Sea
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
With Professor John Moore, Director, Center for Oceans Law, University of Virginia and Paul Kelly, US Commission on Oceans Policy.

UN Peacekeeping Capabilities: Benchmarks in Brahimi Report Implementation
Monday, March 8, 2004
With William Durch and Victoria Holt, both Senior Associates at the Henry L. Stimson Center and co-authors of The Brahimi Report and the Future of Peace Operations.

Corporate Warriors: Understanding the Privatized Military Industry
Friday, March 5, 2004
With Dr. Peter Singer, National Security Fellow, Brookings Institution and author, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry.

Iraq Survey Group
Monday, March 1, 2004
With Dr. David Kay, former Special Advisor to the Iraq Survey Group and Chief US Weapons Inspector in Iraq.

The US Role in Peacekeeping
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
With Jane Holl Lute, Assistant Secretary-General, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

An Overarching Strategy for US Foreign Assistance
Monday, February 23, 2004
With Patrick Cronin, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies, CSIS and Steven Radelet, Senior Fellow, Center for global Development.

Iran's Domestic Dynamic: Parliamentary Elections and the New Reform Movement
Thursday, February 19, 2004
With Daniel Brumberg, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Dr. Ray Takeyh, Director of Studies, Near East South Asia Center, National Defense University.

Reception for The Brahimi Report and the Future of UN Peace Operations
Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Securing Critical Infrastructures: Focus on Energy
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
With Jay Apt, Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center and Paula Scalingi, President, The Scalingi Group.

European Security Strategy: Is it for Real?
Monday, February 9, 2004
With Tomas Valasek, Director, Center for Defense Information (Brussels office).

Towards a New Paradigm in East Asian Security: Exploring Positive-Sum Strategic Relations between the US-Japan Alliance and China
Monday, February 2, 2004
Stein Room, 2nd Floor, Brookings Institution
The next phase of the ongoing project An Alliance for Engagement: Building Cooperation in Security Relations with China

Roundtable on Africa and Peace Operations Capacity
Friday, January 30, 2004
Ambassador Uwechue discussed his current role as Special Representative of the Executive Secretary at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and issues facing ECOWAS as it responds to regional conflicts and conducts peace operations.

The US Army: Transforming to What?
Thursday, January 29, 2004
With Colonel Douglas A. Macgregor, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University.

Iraq: Casualties and Public Opinion
Thursday, January 29, 2004
With Dr. Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Director, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Duke University.

Citizen Diplomacy: A Pivotal Role in U.S. Security
Monday, January 26, 2004
With Ambassador William B. Taylor, Coordinator for Afghanistan, Bureau of South Asian Affairs, State Department and Dan Davidson, President, American Councils for International Education.

Improving Threat Assessments: Lessons Learned from Iraq
Friday, January 23, 2004
With George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and co-author, WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications.

Children at War
Monday, January 12, 2004
Rayburn House Office Building
With Dr. P.W. Singer from the Brookings Institution

North Korea Update: Building on Recent Progress
Monday, December 15, 2003
Longworth House Office Building, room 1539
With Dr. Daniel A. Pinkston, Senior Research Associate, Center for Nonproliferation Studies and Dr. Phillip C. Saunders, East Asia Nonproliferation Program, both of the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Will Japan Go Nuclear?
Friday, December 5, 2003
With Benjamin Self, Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center and Dr. Yoshihide Soeya, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Keio University.

Japan's Nuclear Option: Security Politics, and Policy in the 21st Century
Thursday, December 4, 2003
National Press Club (529 14th Street, Washington DC), First Amendment Lounge, on the 13th Floor
A panel discussion and book release of the Stimson Center US-Japan Task Force examining Japan's nuclear future.

Peacekeeping and the Challenge of Iraq
Thursday, December 4, 2003
TBA
With Col. George Oliver, former Deputy Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance, Coalition Provisional Authority.

Synchronous Failure: The Real Danger of the 21st Century
Monday, December 1, 2003
Dirksen Senate Office Building, room 192
With Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director of the Centre of Peace and Conflict, University of Toronto.

Bioterrorism and Forensics: Criminal Activity and the Courtroom
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Rayburn House Office Building, room 2325
With Dr. Babetta Marrone, Project Leader and Principal Investigator in the Bioscience Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Pandemics and Bioterrorism: Clinical Challenges of Immunization
Friday, November 14, 2003
Rayburn House Office Building, room 2325
With Dr. Renata Engler, Director of the Walter Reed National Vaccine Healthcare Center.

Sudan on the Brink of Peace
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Rayburn House Office Building, room 2168
With John Pendergast, Special Advisor on Africa for the International Crisis Group and former NSC and State Department official.

Infectious Diseases: Domestic and International Response Strategies
Monday, November 3, 2003
With Dr. Jennifer Brower, Science and Technology Policy Analyst, RAND and Dr. Christopher Chyba, Co-Director, Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Bunker Busters: Technical Issues
Friday, October 31, 2003
Dirksen Senate Office Building, room 628
With Dr. Sydney Drell, Stanford University.

Nuclear vs. Conventional Weapons
Thursday, October 30, 2003
Dirksen Senate Office Building, room G-11
With Dr. Stephen Younger, Director, Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

The Role of the JSDF and the US-Japan Security Relationship in the Future
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Board Conference Room, The Henry L. Stimson Center
Col. Nobuki Ito, who will soon be completing a two-month fellowship at the Stimson Center, will discuss his research on the changing role of the Japan Self Defense Forces (JSDF) in and outside of East Asia.

Rein In at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relations
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Board Conference Room
With Alan D. Romberg, Senior Associate and Director of the East Asia Program, Henry L. Stimson Center.

Military Occupations: Lessons Learned, Past and Present
Monday, October 20, 2003
Rayburn House Office Building, room 2105
With Dr. William Durch, Henry L. Stimson Center, Dr. David Edelstein, Georgetown University.

Biodefense: Control vs. Access
Thursday, October 16, 2003
Russell Senate Office Building, room 188
With Dr. Ken Alibek, Executive Director, National Center for Biodefense.

Force Modernization: "New" New or "Old" New Nukes?
Friday, October 10, 2003
Dirksen Senate Office Building, room 632
With Dr. Roger Hagengruber, Director of the Office for Policy, Security and Technology at the University of New Mexico, formerly Senior Vice President at Sandia National Laboratories.

Kenya: Constitutionalism and Rule of Law
Thursday, October 9, 2003
Russell Senate Office Building, room 188
With Dr. Gibson Kamau Kuria, human rights activist, attorney and recipient of both the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and the American Bar Association's Rule of Law Award.

Privatization and the Military: A Critical Overview
Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Rayburn House Office Building, room 2325
With Dr. Peter Singer, National Security Fellow, Brookings Institution, and Dr. Deborah Avant, George Washington University.

Better, Faster, Cheaper: The Role of Technology in Fighting Terrorism
Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Dirksen Senate Office Building, room 138
With Dr. Gerry Yonas, Principal Scientist, Vice President and Initiator of Sandia National Laboratories' Advanced Concepts Group.

A New Direction in US Strategic Policy
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Russell Senate Office Building, room 189
With Dr. Keith Payne, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy, currently President and CEO, National Institute for Public Policy.

Japanese Security Policy: Continuity or Change?
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Board Conference Room, Henry L. Stimson Center
Public roundtable discussion of Japan's security policy in the context of an uncertain Northeast Asian security environment.

Iran and the Bomb 101
Saturday, August 16, 2003
With Dr. George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Dr. David Albright, Institute for Science and International Studies.

Preemptive Peace: Addressing Terrorism, Avoiding War
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Senate
With Cesar H. Villanueva of the Philippine Coalition for Peace and the Philippines Action Network on Small Arms, and Dr. Mary AnnCejka, coauthor of Artisans for Peace.

Intelligence Reform: The Challenge of Sub-State Armed Groups
Friday, July 25, 2003
Senate
With Dr. Richard Shultz, Research Director of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence.

From Museums to Madrassas: Why Does "Soft" Security Matter?
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
House
With Dr. Mounir Bouchenaki, archaeologist and Dr. Attiya Inayatullah, specialist on literacy and secular education, UNESCO Executive Board, also member of the National Security Council of Pakistan and a Member of the Pakistan Parliament.

Peacekeepers O, Criminals 5: Lessons Still Not Learned in Nation-Building
Monday, July 21, 2003
With R. Jeffrey Smith, The Washington Post's national investigative correspondent and former bureau chief for the newspaper in southern Europe (1997-2001).

SARS: Impact and Lessons Learned
Friday, July 18, 2003
Capitol
With Dr. Carole A. Heilman, Director of the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID).

Whither NATO? Afghanistan, Iraq?
Tuesday, July 15, 2003
With Ambassador Robert Hunter, former US Ambassador to NATO.

Liberia Update
Tuesday, July 15, 2003
House
With Colonel Tom Dempsey, Foreign Area Officer and Director of Africa Studies, US Army War College, formerly Defense Attache in Liberia (1998-99), and Colonel Vic Nelson, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense, US Department of Defense.

Current Challenges to Stockpile Stewardship
Monday, July 14, 2003
Senate
With Raymond Jeanloz, University of California at Berkeley, and Sydell Gold, member of the Panel to Assess the Reliability, Safety, and Security of the United States Nuclear Stockpile (the "Foster Panel").

The Creation of Stockpile Stewardship: Policy, Politics, and Strategic Planning
Friday, July 11, 2003
Capitol
With Dr. Vic Reis, the "father" of the Stockpile Stewardship program.

Central Asia: Responding to Radical Islam
Wednesday, July 9, 2003
Capitol
With David Lewis, Project Director for Central Asia, and Azizulla Ghazi, Senior Analyst, at the International Crisis Group.

Iraqi Women Post-War: A Blueprint for Leadership and Inclusion
Tuesday, July 8, 2003
House
With Carla Koppell, Women Waging Peace, the New Nigeria foundation and Citizens International; Swanee Hunt, Former Ambassador to Austria, Founder of Women Waging Peace; Carla Koppell, Women Waging Peace, the New Nigeria foundation and Citizens International; Riva A. Khoshaba, Attorney with Foley and Lardner; Neeran Saraf, President and CEO SARAF solutions, inc. Member, Iraqi Forum for Democracy; Tanya Gilly, Board member, Kurdish Foundation, Member, Women for a Free Iraq.

Post-Conflict Iraq: Is the United Nations Relevant?
Friday, July 4, 2003
With Sir Jeremy Greenstock, UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and His Royal Highness Prince Zeid al-Hussein, Jordanian Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Turkey Today: NATO and Post- 9/11 priorities
Friday, June 27, 2003
House
With Burcu San, Turkish diplomat and NATO deputy chief of staff to the Secretary General.

Zimbabwe: Civil Society Fights for Its Life
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
With Archbishop Pius Ncube, Roman Catholic prelate for the Bulawayo Archdiocese, southern Zimbabwe.

Press Briefing: High-Tech R&D in China
Monday, June 23, 2003
Henry L. Stimson Center
Briefing for media on new Stimson Center Report on Foreign High-Tech R&D in China: Risks, Rewards, and Implications for US-China Relations by Kate Walsh

US Nuclear Weapons: Sustainment, Modernization, and Current Roles and Missions
Monday, June 23, 2003
Capitol
With John Harvey, Director, Policy Planning Staff, at the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA).

Unity or Strife?: What's Next for the US and Europe
Thursday, June 19, 2003
House
With German Deputy Foreign Minister Dr. Klaus Scharioth, State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office and German Embassy representative.

Press Breakfast and Roundtable on Regional Capabilities and the United Nations: The Impact of European Capacity-building
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
The Stimson Center
Featuring Dr. Julian Lindley-French, Director European Security Policy, Geneva Center for Security Policy and Mr. Michael Matthiessen, Director, Civilian Crisis Management, Council of the European Union. Second in Future of Peace Operations Transatlantic Dialogue on European Capacities for Peace Operations roundtable series. Preceded by Press Breakfast 9-10am.

European Capacity-Building & the United Nations
Monday, June 16, 2003
With Mr. Michael Matthiessen, Director of Civilian Crisis Management at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union (EU), and Dr. Julian Lindley-French, Director of European Security Policy, Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

Reconstructing Iraq
Thursday, June 5, 2003
Senate
With Johanna Mendelson-Forman, the UN Foundation, Rob Malley, International Crisis Group, and Sandra Mitchell, Vice President for government relations at the International Rescue Committee.

Democracy Aid: Is Russia Ready to Graduate?
Wednesday, June 4, 2003
With Dr. Sarah Mendolson, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Dr. Ted Gerber, University of Arizona.

Reconstructing Iraq
Friday, May 30, 2003
2325 Rayburn House Office Building
With Johanna Mendelson-Forman, UN Foundation expert on post-conflict governance in transition, Rob Malley, International Crisis Group Iraq specialist and Joseph Donahue, the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.

Escalation Control in South Asia Workshop II
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock Village, United Kingdom
The South Asia Program convened a workshop outside of London in the United Kingdom investigating escalation control between India and Pakistan.

The Evolution of the US Alliance System
Thursday, May 15, 2003
The Henry L. Stimson Center
A Presentation by Dr. Yoko Iwama, Visiting Fellow, Stimson Center, and Associate Professor of International Relations, National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo.

Caspian Oil Revenues: Fuel for Progress?
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Dirksen Room 632
With Dr. Meruert Makhmutova, Director, Public Policy Research Center, Nazim Imanov, former Head, Azerbaijan Parliamentary Budget Committee, Sergei Solyanik, Vice Chairman, Ecological Society "Green Salvation," and Grigory Marchenko, Director, Kazakh National Fund and Chairman, Kazakh National Bank.

Assessing the Balkans Peacekeeping Experience: Lessons for Afghanistan, Iraq and Beyond
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
The Future of Peace Operations Project presented the first roundtable in its Transatlantic Dialogue series on European Capacities for Peace Operations. The discussion featured guest speaker Dr. Plamen Pantev, Director, Institute for Security and International Studies, Sofia Bulgaria and discussant Dr. Esther Brimmer, Deputy Director and Director of Research, Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins-SAIS.

The Global Language Challenge
Monday, May 12, 2003
Russell Building Room 189
With Ambassador Michael Lemmon, Dean, School of Language Studies, Foreign Service Institute and Dr. Richard Brecht, Director, National Foreign Language Center.

Arab Media After Iraq: Lost Cause or New Opportunity?
Friday, May 2, 2003
Senate Dirksen Building, G-11
With Karim Alrawi, Project Director, Internews, former Editor-in-Chief of Arabica Magazine and a foreign correspondent in Egypt, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Drifting Apart or Growing Together? The Primacy of the Transatlantic Economy
Thursday, May 1, 2003
With Joe Quinlan, Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations and former Senior Global Economist, Morgan Stanley.

Findings on R&D in China Project
Friday, April 18, 2003
Board Conference Room, Stimson Center
Kate Walsh presents findings from the "Foreign High-Tech R&D in China" project to a roundtable of Washington-area China trade and security experts.

A View from Down Under: Australia-US Military Cooperation
Monday, April 7, 2003
Senate Russell Building, Rm 189
With Dr. Alan Ryan, Senior Research Fellow, Land and Warfare Studies Centre, Australian Army.

Views from a Coalition Ally: Australian Perspectives on the Military Challenges faced in Post-Conflict Iraq, Modern Peacekeeping, and Coalition Operations
Monday, April 7, 2003
The Future of Peace Operations project hosted a roundtable with Dr. Alan Ryan, Senior Fellow at the Australian Army's Land Warfare Studies Center.

Bali Bombing: Lessons Learned in Counterterrorism Efforts
Wednesday, April 2, 2003
Senate Russell Building, Rm 188
A disscusion with Sidney Jones who is on the ground with International Crisis Group, Indonesia, and a State Department representative (to be confirmed) on Political-Military affairs for Indonesia.

The Biological Weapons Convention: Relevance to International and National Security
Tuesday, April 1, 2003
With Ambassador Jim Leonard, former Head of US Delegation to and lead negotiator of the BWC, Professor Barry Kellman, DePaul University College of Law and Suzanne Spaulding, ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security.

Stress Across the Atlantic: US-Europe Tensions Over Iraq and Counter-Terrorism Cooperation
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
2105 Rayburn
With Karin von Hippel, specialist on European counter-terrorist reforms, Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, London.

Post-Conflict Crisis in Iraq
Tuesday, March 4, 2003
With Ken Bacon, President, Refugees International, and Eric Schwartz, Council on Foreign Relations.

Building Civil Society in Liberia
Monday, March 3, 2003
Senate Dirksen, Room 628
With Michael Kpakala Francis, Archbishop of Monrovia.

Preventing State Failure: the United Nations and the 2002 National Security Strategy
Friday, February 21, 2003
2325 Rayburn House Office Building
With Dr. Chetan Kumar, Interagency Liaison Specialist, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UN Development Program (UNDP).

A Necessary Evil? Current Chinese Views of America's Military Role in East Asia
Thursday, February 20, 2003
Board Room, The Henry L. Stimson Center, 11 Dupont Circle
Alan Tonelson, the Stimson Center's latest Visiting Fellow in China, will present his findings from his research in Beijing and Shanghai.

War with Iraq: Possible Scenarios
Friday, February 14, 2003
Dirksen Senate, Room 138
Dr. Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will join us for a discussion of the military and stratefic factors that pertain to a war with Iraq.

Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges for Policymakers and Congress
Friday, February 14, 2003
Rayburn 2318
"Play to Win: the Final Report of the bi-partisan Commission on Post-Conflict Reconstruction" will be released this week by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Association of the US Army. The report was written by Scott Feil, Johanna Mendelson Forman, Robert Orr and Michele Flournoy. Mr. Feil and Ms. Mendelson-Forman will be joining us for an in-depth discussion of their findings. They will be joined by Rick Barton, head of the CSIS follow-on project.

China and Missile Defense: Managing US-PRC Strategic Relations
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Board Conference Room, The Henry L. Stimson Center
A special briefing by Alan D. Romberg and the CNA Corporation's Rear Admiral Michael McDevitt (USN, ret.) discussing the findings of China and Missile Defense: Managing U.S.-PRC Strategic Relations, a new report released by the Stimson Center's China Program.

Is the Internet Bad for Dictators? The Relationship Between Technology and Democracy
Monday, February 10, 2003
Rayburn 2318
With Shanthi Kalathil, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Jon Alterman, Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Failed State with Nukes: Further Implications of North Korea Policy
Monday, February 3, 2003
Senate Russell, Room 385
Dr. Marcus Noland, Institute for International Economics (IIE), and Jana Mason, US Committee for Refugees (USCR), will join us for a discussion of the economic and humanitarian aspects of policy options on the Korean Peninsula.

NATO: A Dialogue with New Alliance Members
Thursday, January 30, 2003
2325 Rayburn House Office Building
With Imants Liegis, Ambassador of Latvia to NATO, Emil Dimitrov Valev, Ambassador of Bulgaria to NATO and Bogdan Mazuru, Ambassador of Romania to NATO.

German-US Relations: Rift Across the Atlantic?
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
Senate Russell 385
Karsten Vogt, Coordinator for German American Cooperation at the German Foreign Ministry will lead a discussion about current tensions and perspectives across the Atlantic.

Defusing Dirty Bombs
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
A panel discussion of the Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation.

Intelligence Community Reform 101
Friday, January 24, 2003
Capitol Building, SC-6
With the Honorable James M. Simon, former Assistant Director of Centeral Intelligence.

Controlling Dangerous Pathogens
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
With John Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland.

A War Crimes Tribunal for Iraq?
Friday, January 10, 2003
With Ambassador Pierre Richard Prosper, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes, Tom Warrick, Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Asian Affairs and Richard Dicker, Human Rights Watch.

US Security Policy Toward South Asia and Its Implications for China: A Chinese Perspective
Thursday, January 9, 2003
Board Conference Room
A briefing By Visiting Fellow Zhang Guihong of Zhejiang University.

Weapons Inspections in Iraq
Wednesday, December 18, 2002
With Frank Ronald Cleminsor, UNMOVIC.

Improving Multilateral Export Controls and Technology Access for the Developing World
Thursday, December 12, 2002
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Choate Room

On the Ground with Civil Affairs
Monday, December 9, 2002
With Deborah Alexander, Office of Transition Initiatives, USAID.

CTR: Weapons Safety and Security
Thursday, December 5, 2002
With Jim Ried, Director of Policy, Cooperative Threat Reduction Programs, Office of the Secretary of Defense, US Department of Defense.

Strategies for the War on Terrorism: a Japanese Perspective
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
At the Henry L. Stimson Center
A Presentation by Capt. Takamichi Takahashi, Visiting Fellow, and Senior Staff, the Plans and Programs Division of the Maritime Staff Office of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF).

Roundtable on European Capacities for Peace Operations
Monday, November 25, 2002
The Henry L. Stimson Center
NATO & the European Union:
Partners or Rivals?
Rationalizing Europe's Contribution

The Future Role of the Japan Self Defense Force in East Asia
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
At the Henry L. Stimson Center
A Presentation by Col.Sadafumi Fujii, Visiting Fellow, Chief Researcher, the Ground Research and Development Center of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF).

Nuclear Neighbors: Regional Stability and Detente in South Asia
Friday, November 8, 2002
Senate Dirksen, Room 608
With Brigadier General Feroz Khan, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Monterey Institute Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

The Future of the Army: Profession, Bureaucracy, or Both?
Wednesday, November 6, 2002
With Professor Don Schneider, US Military Academy at West Point.

Film Showing & Panel Discussion on Frontline/World's Gunrunners
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Committee on International Relations, Washington, D.C.

The Stimson Center's Project on the Future of Peace Operations in cooperation with Representative Edward R. Royce (R-CA), Chair, Africa Subcommittee, House International Relations Committee invite you to a film showing and panel discussion in Frontline/World's Gunrunners: The Story of UN Sanctions, War, and Illegal Trade in Sierra Leone featuring Johan Peleman, UN Investigator, UN Panel of Experts on Sierra Leone.

Winning the War, Losing the Peace? A Critical Analysis of Post-Conflict Security
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
Center for Strategic and International Studies: Room B-1B, Conference Center, 1800 K St., NW

A Future of Peace Operations event co-sponsored with Refugees International and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

US Colombia Policy: Working Toward Success
Friday, October 18, 2002
With Colonel John "Jay" Cope, US Army (retired).

Weapon Scientists Wanted: Addressing the Threat of Know-How Proliferation
Tuesday, October 15, 2002
Senate Dirksen 628
With Jim Noble, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Tom Owens, former Senior Vice President and current Senior Advisor of the Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF).

Roundtable on US Training for Peace Operations in Africa: The ACOTA Program
Thursday, October 10, 2002
The Future of Peace Operations program is delighted to have a joint DoD-State presentation to launch a discussion about the newly created ACOTA program and its potential impact on multinational crisis response situations. ACOTA is the follow-on to ACRI, the African Crisis Response Initiative.

Nuclear Deterrence and Chinese Strategic Thinking
Thursday, October 10, 2002
Board Conference Room, Stimson Center
Presentation by summer 2002 Stimson Center Visiting Fellow in China, Joanne Tompkins

NATO Post-Prague
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
With Michael Ruehle, Head, Policy Planning and Speechwriting Unit, NATO Headquarters, Brussels.

Cooperative Monitoring: Assessing the Demand Side of WMD Proliferation
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
2325 Rayburn
With Arian Pregenzer, Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC), Sandia National Laboratories.

Building Democracy: USAID in Afghanistan
Friday, October 4, 2002
With Larry Sampler, Karma Lively and John Langlois, Office of Transition Initiatives, USAID.

A Perspective on Military Transparency and Confidence-Building in East Asia
Monday, September 23, 2002
At the Henry L. Stimson Center
A Presentation by Noriko Sado, Visiting Fellow, Research Associate, the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University

Where Do We Go From Here? Next Steps in Domestic Terrorism Preparedness
Saturday, September 21, 2002
2325 Rayburn
With Amy Smithson, Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center.

Afghanistan: Are We Losing the Peace?
Saturday, September 14, 2002
With Professor Bernard Rubin, New York University.

Panel Discussion/Publication Launch - The US-Japan Alliance and Building Cooperation in Security Relations with China
Thursday, September 12, 2002
At the Japan Foundation International Conference Hall (20th Floor, ARK Mori Building, 1-12-32 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
Panel Discussion/Publication Launch on An Alliance for Engagement.

Policing the Peace: Lessons Learned and Weapons Required
Monday, September 9, 2002
Dirksen, Room 608
With Robert M. Perito, Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace and Colonel David Karcher, Jr., Director, Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, U.S. Department of Defense.

Iraq and Biological Weapons: What Do We Know?
Sunday, September 8, 2002
With Dr. Richard Spertzel, former UNSCOM inspector.

Islam and the War Against Terrorism
Friday, September 6, 2002
U.S. Capitol, SC-6
With John L. Esposito, University Professor of Religion and International Affairs, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

Reducing Nuclear Dangers in South Asia
Wednesday, September 4, 2002
With Ambassador Karl Inderfurth, George Washington University.

Army Exodus: Why are the Junior Officers Leaving?
Friday, August 30, 2002
2325 Rayburn
With Mark R. Lewis, Research Associate, Institute for Defense Analyses, formerly an Army infantry captain.

Challenges and Successes: On-the-Ground Perspective
Wednesday, July 31, 2002
2325 Rayburn
With Paul McNelly, Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Afghanistan: Next Steps for Security
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
1539 Longworth House Office Building
With Bill Durch and Tori Holt, Future of Peace Operations project, Henry L. Stimson Center.

The Uzbek Imperative: Uzbekistan and US Global Policy
Monday, June 24, 2002
With Chris Seiple, Vice President and Director of Strategic Initiatives, Institute for Global Engagement.

International Terrorism: US Security and Law Enforcement
Saturday, June 15, 2002
1116 Longworth
John Moore, former Defense Intelligence Agency counterterrorism specialist, and Scott Erskine, formerFBI supervisory Special Agent for international terrorism investigations, will lead a discussion of international terrorist threats and US counterterrorism policy.

The Challenge of Regional Nuclear Arsenals
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
2325 Rayburn House Office Building
With Dr. Samina Ahmed, Fellow, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and Dr. Avner Cohen, Fellow, University of Maryland's Center for International Security Studies.

Weapon Scientists Wanted: Addressing the Threat of Know-How Proliferation
Sunday, June 9, 2002
With Jim Noble, Department of Energy and Tom Owen, Civilian Research and Development Fund.

Panel Discussion/Publication Launch - An Alliance for Engagement: Building Cooperation in Security Relations with China
Friday, June 7, 2002
At the Carnegie Endowment Building - Choate Room (1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW)
Panel Discussion/Publication Launch on An Alliance for Engagement

HIV/AIDS as a Security Issue
Saturday, June 1, 2002
With Ulf Kristofferson, United Nations and Dr. David Tarantino, Stability Operations Office, US Department of Defense.

Policy Recommendations for Japan's Future Security Strategy in East Asia
Thursday, May 30, 2002
At the Henry L. Stimson Center
A presentation by Katsuyuki Yakushiji, Visiting Fellow, and Editorial Writer, Asahi Shimbun

Roundtable with Ambassador Richard S. Williamson
Tuesday, May 21, 2002
The Future of Peace Operations hosts a roundtable event with Ambassador Richard S. Williamson of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

Afghanistan Security Briefing
Wednesday, May 15, 2002
The Future of Peace Operations project provided a briefing on the security situation in Afghanistan. (invitation only)

Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Afghanistan
Thursday, May 2, 2002
With Len Hawley, formerly of the National Security Council.

Technology Access for the Developing World: Reconciling Global Regimes and National Security Objectives
Friday, April 26, 2002
Arden House, Harriman, New York
The 33rd United Nations Issues Conference sponsored by the Stanley Foundation

Putin's International Outlook
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
2318 Rayburn
With Nataliya Kaninina, Putin Administration, Mikhail Zalikhanov, Federal Duma (Parliament), Alexander Kosarikov, Federal Duma and Sergei Baranovsky, President, Green Cross Russia.

Meeting with the Deputy Chair of the Afghan Loya Jirga, Dr. Mahbuba Hoqhoqmal
Monday, April 22, 2002
The Future of Peace Operations project hosted a meeting to discuss the upcoming Loya Jirga process, the security situation in Afghanistan and subsequent gaps in the reconstruction efforts.

Homeland Security: A Cost/Benefit Framework
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
2325 Rayburn House Office Building
With Frank Hoffman, United States Marine Corps (retired).

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD): Non-Proliferation in a Post-9/11 World
Monday, April 8, 2002
1539 Longworth House Office Building
With Michael Krepon, Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center.

Roundtable on Afghanistan: Security Needs, Security Options
Wednesday, April 3, 2002
An off-the-record roundtable hosted by the Future of Peace Operations project to discuss practical issues related to provision of security in Afghanistan, share assessments of the situation by colleagues recently in the region, begin to translate those assessments into operational security requirements, and consider the implications.

Global Nuclear Trends 2015
Wednesday, April 3, 2002
MITRE Corporation
Stimson Center Senior Associate Kate Walsh will participate in a conference to examine "possible nuclear weapons aspirations in the Middle East and East Asia, the future directions of the two newest weapons states, India and Pakistan, and the potential for nuclear terrorism involving groups in these regions."

Violence and Ideology: Nepal's Crisis and Response
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
With Dr. Thomas Marks, Academy of the Pacific.

Visit by US-Asia Pacific Security Issues Group
Friday, March 22, 2002
Stimson Center -- Board Conference Room
Stimson Center staff to meet with visiting Asian delegation hosted by the Meridian International Center.

Why is Health Important to US Foreign Policy?
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
1116 Longworth
With Jordan Kassalow, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations.

Japan's Evolving Security Policy: A Journalist's Perspective
Thursday, March 7, 2002
At the Henry L. Stimson Center
A presentation by Katsuyuki Yakushiji, Visiting Fellow, and Editorial Writer, Asahi Shimbun.

Chinese Arms Control Expert Discusses US-China Relations in Wake of Recent Bush-Jiang Meeting
Thursday, March 7, 2002
Stimson Center -- Dupont Conference Room
Dr. Shen Dingli, a leading Chinese expert on international security and arms control issues and the Stimson Center's Fellowship partner in Shanghai, presents an informal talk on US-China Relations following the recent meeting in Beijing between US President Bush and Chinese President Jiang.

Discussion with Sir Jeremy Greenstock - The Security Council and Counter-Terrorism After the Afghan War.
Wednesday, March 6, 2002
Somers Room (lobby level), Brookings Institution, 1775 Mass. Ave, NW, Washington, DC
Discussion with Sir Jeremy Greenstock co-sponsored by the Future of Peace Operations project at the Henry L. Stimson Center, the United Nations Association of the United States, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Sir Jeremy Greenstock Luncheon - The Security Council and Counter-Terrorism After the Afghan War.
Wednesday, March 6, 2002
Closed Event-Carnegie Endowment, Washington, DC
Sir Jeremy Greenstock luncheon co-sponsored by the Future of Peace Operations project at the Henry L. Stimson Center, the United Nations Association of the United States and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Doctrine for Small Wars
Monday, March 4, 2002
2015 Rayburn
With Bruce Gudmundsson, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.

Update: Somalia and the Sudan
Friday, March 1, 2002
2015 Rayburn
With John Prendergast, co-director of the International Crisis Group's Africa program.

Terrorism: Looking Ahead
Friday, March 1, 2002
With Frank Hoffman, National Security Study Group, United States Marine Corps.

The US-Japan Alliance & Building Security Relations with China
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
At Japan Society, New York (333 East 47th Street, New York City)
A panel discussion featuring a group of foreign policy and security experts.

Peering Into A Dark Hole: DPRK Nuclear Issues Concerning the 1994 Agreed Framework
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
With Dr. Peter Hays, Nautilus Institute.

The US and Europe Post-9/11: Something New or Deja Vu?
Tuesday, February 12, 2002
2318 Rayburn
With Bruno Tertrais, formerly of the policy planning staff at the French Defense Ministry.

Congressional Testimony
Tuesday, February 12, 2002

Landmines, Getting Them Out: How the US is Helping
Tuesday, February 5, 2002
1116 Longworth
With Jernej Cimpersek and Vojislav Suc, International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance (ITF).

NATO Today
Monday, February 4, 2002
With Jamie Shea, Press Advisor, North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

A Call to Virtual Arms: Cybersecurity After 9/11
Monday, January 28, 2002
With Professor Lee McKnight, Murrow Center, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Congressional Testimony before the US-China Commission
Thursday, January 17, 2002
Senate Dirksen Office Building, Rm. 106
Senior Associate Kate Walsh testifies before the US China Security Review Commission on multilateral export controls and commercial technology transfers to China.

Chinese Perspectives on US Ballistic Missile Defense
Monday, January 14, 2002
at the Henry L. Stimson Center
A presentation on Chinese perspectives of US missile defense, by the Stimson Center’s first Visiting Fellow to China, Thomas M. Sanderson, Defense Policy Analyst, Science Applications International Corporation.

Nuclear Posture Review Update
Sunday, January 13, 2002
With Michael Krepon, Founding President, Henry L. Stimson Center.

Drugs and Development: Narcotics and Post-Conflict Afghanistan
Thursday, December 20, 2001
With Nancy Lubin, Open Society Institute.

Coordinating the UN Coalition for Afghanistan
Sunday, December 16, 2001
With Michele Griffin, United Nations Integrated Mission Task Force on Afghanistan.

Security Outlook in Northeast Asia after September 11th: US Policy, China-Taiwan Relations, and Japan's Role
Tuesday, December 11, 2001
A presentation by Yasuhiro Matsuda, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies, Defense Agency, Japan.

Champions of Peace, Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize
Monday, December 10, 2001
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
The Norwegian Embassy and Stimson Center recognize the Nobel Peace Prize honoring the UN and Kofi Annan at Commemorative Seminar.

Prosecuting International Terrorists: Courts or Tribunals?
Saturday, December 8, 2001
With David Scheffer, former US Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes.

The Future of Japan's Contribution to International Security and the Role of the Ground Self-Defense Force
Tuesday, December 4, 2001
A presentation by Col. Tatsuhiro Tanaka, Visiting Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center and Director, Third Research and Development Division of the Ground Research and Development Command, GSDF

The United States and NATO Post 9/11: Challenges, Partnership and Post-Conflict Afghanistan
Saturday, December 1, 2001
With Michael Ruehle, Policy Planning and Speechwriter, North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The Implications of the Afghan Crisis on South Asia IV
Thursday, November 8, 2001
Stimson Conference Center
Ambassador William B. Milam, former US Ambassador to Pakistan, gave the fourth presentation in a Stimson Center discussion series entitled, "Implications of the Afghan Crisis on South Asia."

Stanford Town Hall Meeting
Thursday, November 1, 2001
Stanford University, Stanford, California

The Implications of the Afghan Crisis on South Asia III
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
Stimson Conference Center
Stimson Center Visiting Fellows Dr. Rajesh Basur and Gp. Capt. Khalid Banuri, gave the third presentation in a Stimson Center discussion series entitled, "Implications of the Afghan Crisis on South Asia."

The Implications of the Afghan Crisis on South Asia II
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Stimson Conference Center
Dr. C. Raja Mohan, Strategic Affairs Editor, The Hindu, and Commodore Uday Bhaskar, Deputy Director, Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, gave the second presentation in a Stimson Center discussion series entitled, "Implications of the Afghan Crisis on South Asia."

Lessons Learned in Humanitarian Response
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
With Joel Charny, Refugees International and Robert Templer, International Crisis Group.

Similar Method, Different Motive: Transnational Crime and Terrorism
Sunday, September 2, 2001
With the Transnational Center on Crime and Corruption, American University.

After Milosevic: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Saturday, September 1, 2001
With Milan Protic, Yugoslavia's Ambassador to the United States.

The Impact of the Bush Administration's Asia Policy on US-Japan Security Relations: A Japanese Perspective
Thursday, August 23, 2001
A presentation by Koji Murata, Associate Professor Diplomatic History, Doshisha University, in which he assessed the impacts the newly-elected Bush administration has had on the US-Japan alliance.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament in Northeast Asia
Saturday, July 14, 2001
A presentation by Hirofumi Tosaki, Research Fellow, Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Japan Institute of International Affairs.

Special Forces 101
Friday, June 1, 2001
With the Special Operations Command, US Department of Defense.

Rebuilding Kosovo
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
With Colonel Mike Dziedzic (USAF), United Nations Interim Administration, National Defense University.

Sweden's Role in Conflict Prevention, Information Technology, and Peace Operations
Sunday, April 8, 2001
With Ambassador Jan Eliasson and Colonel Donna Boltz, United States Institute of Peace.

Private Military Companies
Sunday, April 1, 2001
With Doug Brooks, International Peace Operations Association.

Japan-China Relations in the Post Cold War Era: Toward a Sustainable Equal Partnership
Thursday, March 15, 2001
A presentation by Seiichiro Takagi, Director of Research, National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS).

Beyond Mutual Assured Destruction
Monday, March 5, 2001
With Michael Krepon, Henry L. Stimson Center.

Cybersecurity Emergency Response Teams
Wednesday, February 28, 2001
With the General Services Administration and Carnegie Mellon University.

Confidence-Building Measures and Japan's Security Agenda
Monday, February 26, 2001
A presentation by Hisayoshi Ina, Columnist, Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

Sino-Japanese Relations for the 21st Century
Wednesday, February 7, 2001
A presentation by Koichi Maruyama, First Secretary, Embassy of Japan, assessing the short-term and long-term scenarios for the future of China and how this future will affect Sino-Japanese relations.

Modernizing the Agreed Framework: US-DPRK Relations
Sunday, February 4, 2001
With Dr. Peter Hayes, Nautilus Institute.

Terrorism 101
Thursday, February 1, 2001
With Dr. Amy Smithson, Henry L. Stimson Center.

Societies in Transition: A Virtual Reality Tour
Tuesday, January 23, 2001
With General Wesley Clark, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the United States Institute of Peace.

Security Environment in the 21st Century and US-Japan Military Strategy for a Better Alliance
Wednesday, December 13, 2000
A presentation by Lt. Col. Kazuhiko Murakami, Research Staff, Air Staff College, Japan Air Self Defense Force.

Globalization and the Future of Defense
2000
A half-day conference with economists.

The Security Gap in Peace Operations
2000
With Colonel George Oliver, US Army War College.

Arms Control: The Current State of Play
2000
With Ambassador Robert Gallucci, Georgetown University.

Reflections on the Nuclear Age: A Post-Cold War Perspective
2000
With General Lee Butler.

Stabilization of the Korean Peninsula and Japan's Role
Friday, October 27, 2000
A presentation by Manabu Mannami, Assistant Director, Secretarial Division, Japan Defense Agency, proposing new measures to create stability on the Korean peninsula.

Critical Infrastructure and Private-Public Partnerships
2000
With Lee Zeichner, Department of Commerce.

Beyond Border Control
2000
With Commander Steve Flynn, US Coast Guard, and Council on Foreign Relations.

Diamonds and Greed: the Persistence of Violent Civil Conflict
2000
2222 Rayburn
With Paul Collier, Director of Research, Development Economics Department, World Bank.

Cross-Strait Security Relations: Viewpoints from Domestic Politics in PRC and Taiwan
Tuesday, August 29, 2000
A presentation by Yasuhiro Matsuda, Research Professor, National Institute for Defense Studies about the vicious cycle of relations between CHina, Taiwan, and the United States.

Cybersecurity in an Electronic World
2000
Rayburn 2222
With A. Brett Hovington, Supervisory Special Agent, Outreach and Field Support Unit, National Infrastructure Protection Center, Federal Bureau of Investigations and Daniel O'Connor, Intelligence Operations Specialist, NIPC, FBI.

Policing the Transition to Democracy
2000
2222 Rayburn House Office Building
With Angela Martin, Africa Team Leader, Office of Transition Initiatives, USAID and Jan Stromsem, former Director of the Justice Department's International Criminal Investigations Training Assistance Program (ICITAP).

The Future of Pakistan
Tuesday, July 11, 2000
Stimson Conference Center
Qazi Hussain Ahmad, President of the Jamaat-i-Islami Party gave a presentation at the Stimson Center on the Future of Pakistan.

Information Security and Infrastructure Threats
2000
2222 Rayburn House Office Building
With Mark Montgomery, Director for Transnational Threats, National Security Council.

AIDS: A Security Agenda
2000
2222 Rayburn House Office Building
With Sandra Thurman, Director, Office of National AIDS Policy(ONAP), White House.

Dismantling Suspicion: Prospects for Cooperative Fissile Material Management in Northeast Asia
Wednesday, June 7, 2000
A presentation by Nobumasa Akiyama, Research Associate, Hiroshima Peace Institute about regional cooperation in fissile material management and its implications for US-Japan relations.

The Future of Arms Control
2000
With Dr. Janne Nolan, The Century Foundation.

Overseas with the Liberated, Occupied, and Displaced
2000
With Major Roland de Marcellus, Civil Affairs, US Army Reserves.

Transnational Criminal Networks
2000
With Dr. Richard Millett, Marine Corps University.

Democratic Enlargement: Ten Years Looking Back
2000
With Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Nuclear Materials Threat
2000
With Matt Bunn, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Harvard University.

Disasters Without Borders
2000
With Dr. Brent Burkholder, International Emergency Refugee Health Specialist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Richard Brennan, Director of Health, International Rescue Committee.

Environmental Security
2000
With Sherri Wasserman-Goodman, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Security, U.S. Department of Defense.

Nuclear Weapons in the Post-Cold War World
2000
With Lynn Davis, Director of Study Group, US Commission on National Security.

Civilian Policing in Peacekeeping
2000
With Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin and M. Brooke Darby, US Department of State.

The (Inter)National Guard
2000
With Colonel Mark Kalber, Deputy Director, State Sponsorship Program, National Guard Bureau, US Department of Defense.

Humanitarian High Tech
1999
With Larry Roeder, Special Adviser, Relief Web and Global Disaster Information Network, US Department of State.

DoD and Democracy in Africa
1999
With Nancy Walker, Director, African Center for Strategic Studies, US Department of Defense.

Cyberthreats: Results of the President's Commission
1999
With Phil Lacombe, Staff Director.

European Security and Defense Identity
1999
With a European Union delegation.

Preventing Bloody Conflict
1999
With Dr. Jane Holl, Director, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.

Iran's Nuclear Program
1999
George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for Peace and Karim Sadjapour, International Crisis Group.

Bioterrorism Preparedness
1999
With Dr. Scott Lillibridge, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Loopholes in the Free Market System
1999
With Raymond Baker, Fellow, Brookings Institution, and Jack Blum, Attorney at Law.

Balkans Update
1999
With the Balkans Task Force, US Departments of State and Defense.

A Different World
1999
With John Hillen, Staff, US Commission on National Security in the Twenty-First Century.

War Crimes Tribunals and Long-Term Stability
1999
With Bill Steubner, Reconciliation Advisor, United States Institute of Peace.

Hot Outbreaks, Transnational Threats
1999
With Dr. Stephen Ostroff, Deputy Director of Science and Public Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Relief and Recovery in Kosovo: NGO Coordination
1999
With David Adams, Coordinator, Kosovo Peace Initiative, US Agency for International Development.

Democracy and Long-Term Stability in Nigeria
1999
With Donald Krumm, Nigeria Task Force Coordinator, US Agency for International Development and Nancy Lindborg, Director, Washington Office, Mercy Corps.

Rule of Law in China
1999
With Joe Onek and Phoebe Yang, Coordinators, Rule of Law Program, US Department of State.

Crisis Corps and Meeting the Challenges of the New Century
1998
With Joan Timoney, Director, Crisis Corps, Peace Corps.

The Russian Economy: Everyone's Security Issue
1998
With Ambassador Bill Taylor, Assistance Coordinator for the Newly Independent States, US Department of State.

Dateline Kosovo
1998
With Nicole Bibbins, Office of Population, Refugees and Migration, U.S. Department of State.

African Crisis Response Initiative
1998
With Scott Fisher, Director, African Crisis Response Initiative, US Department of State.

Disasters Within Wars
1998
With Bill Garvelink, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, US Agency for International Development.

Public Security and Peace Operations
1998
With Colonel Mike Dziedzic, National Defense University.

International 911
1998
With Robert Perito, Deputy Director, International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program, Department of Justice.

Drug Interdiction and Globalization: Why the Thugs are Winning
1998
With Commander Steve Flynn, US Coast Guard.

What is the NDP?
1998
With Colonel Bruce Elliot, Deputy Director of Reserve Affairs, Program Analysis and Evaluation, US Army, National Defense Panel.

Office of Transition Initiatives
1998
With Rick Barton, Director, Office of Transition Initiatives, U.S. Agency for International Development.

Media: A Critical Instrument for Peace
1998
With Greg Pirio, Coordinator for Voice of America, Conflict Resolution Initiative, US Information Agency.

Global Outbreak and Response
1998
With Dr. Scott Lillibridge, Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Cyber Attack!
1998
With Mary Riley, U.S. Secret Service.

Relief Web, Technology and Relief Response
1998
With Larry Roeder, Senior Policy Adviser, U.S. Department of State.

Homeland Protection
1998
With James Q. Roberts, Office of Low-Intensity Conflict, US Department of Defense.

Presidential Directives and Peace Operations
1998
With Len Hawley, National Security Council.

The Marine Corps and Security for a New Century
1998
With Captain Chris Seiple, Strategic Initiatives Group, US Marine Corps.

Chinas Emerging Role in the Middle East
1987
House Capitol, Room HC 8
Dr. Jon Alterman, Director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Middle East Program, will discuss China's emerging role in the Middle East.

 

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