Hashing the Atom: Exploring Blockchain Solutions for Global Security

Full Event Schedule Day 1: November 17, 2021 11:00AM-12:30PM EST: Session I – Pioneering DLT in the nuclear sector (Moderated by Cindy Vestergaard, The Stimson Center) Sarah Frazar, Group Leader, Global Security Technology and Policy Group Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Tapani Honkamaa, Principal Advisor, Finland Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) Jon Geater, Chief Technical […]
How Do You “Know” Who Did It – and Then What? The Challenges of Cyber Accountability

Opening Remarks Michael Teodori, President of the Washington Foreign Law Society Panelists Dmitri Alperovitch, Executive Chairman at Silverado Policy Accelerator; Co-Founder and Former CTO at CrowdStrike; Board Member of Automox, Dragos, and other organizations. Dr. Els De Busser, Assistant Professor Cybersecurity Governance, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University; Researcher with The Hague Program for Cyber […]
Religion and Atrocity Prevention

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Launch Event for the Paris Peace Agreements Report

Opening Remarks Benjamin V. Wohlauer, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy to Cambodia Before Cambodia, from 2017-2020, Mr. Wohlauer was consul general at the U.S. consulate general in Florence, Italy. Prior to that he served in the State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs as the Director of the Office of […]
South Asian Security Issues – Views from Emerging Analysts

These presentations are the result of a year-long fellowship with the Stimson Center South Asia Program. Featured Speakers: Kashif Hussain, Research Associate, Strategic Studies Institute, Islamabad Kashif Hussain is a Research Associate at Strategic Studies Institute Islamabad (SSII) in Pakistan. He previously worked as an intern at the Center for International Strategic Studies, Islamabad (CISS) […]
Live Interview with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi

In this one-on-one conversation with Stimson Center President Brian Finlay, Director General Rafael Grossi will discuss current challenges to nuclear nonproliferation, the impact of the pandemic, and the IAEA’s ongoing work for the secure and peaceful use of nuclear technology. Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mr Grossi is a diplomat […]
Post-Abe and Suga Japanese Foreign Policy

Featured Speakers Kunihiko Miyake, Research Director, Canon Institute for Global Studies Kuni Miyake is the Research Director for Foreign and National Security Affairs at the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS). Miyake joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan in 1978. Until he left MOFA in 2005, he served in several senior positions, including […]
Transparency in the Arms Trade: Examining the Role and Efforts of the Arms Trade Treaty

Opening Remarks Rainer Schmiedchen, German Federal Foreign Office Ambassador Robbert Gabriëlse, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the Conference on Disarmament Presenters Rachel Stohl, Stimson Center Carina Solmirano, ATT Monitor Sarah Parker, ATT Secretariat Moderated By Verity Coyle, Stimson Center