Events
Invitation
The Peterson Institute and the InfoShop at the World Bank
invite you to attend a book discussion:
Cline Discusses Global Warming and Agriculture
Speaker: William R. Cline, Peterson Institute
Time: 12 noon to 2:00 pm
Location:
InfoShop at the World Bank
Room J1-050
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433
Registration:
Please RSVP to infoShopevents@worldbank.org.
The Uses and Abuses of Expertise in War and Reconstruction in Iraq
Featuring:
Juan Cole
Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan And author of Informed Comment (www.juancole.com)
McGuire Gibson
Professor in the Oriental Institute and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago And former consultant to UNESCO on the subject of Iraqi antiquities
Moderated by:
Steve Clemons
Director, New America Foundation/American Strategy Program
Date & Time:
Thursday, December 13, 2007
12:00-1:30 PM
Location:
New America Foundation
7th Floor Conference Room
1630 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009
RSVP directly to this email or to communications@NewAmerica.net
or call Liz Wu at 202-986-2700, ext. 315
Nuclear Meltdown: Rebuilding a Coherent Policy Towards Iran
A book discussion with Barbara Slavin and Trita Parsi
December 13, 2007, 12:30pm – 2:00pm
A light buffet lunch will be served at 12:00 p.m.
Featured Panelists:
Barbara Slavin, Senior Diplomatic reporter for USA Today (on leave this year as a fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace) and the author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council and author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
Student Movement DC Happy Hour
Finally, the much anticipated Happy Hour in Washington DC hosted by the Student Movement for Real Change!
Come join your friends and other folks interested in changing the world at Mandu at 18th and S streets just off Dupont Circle.
Event is Thursday, December 13th from 6pm to 8pm. All are invited, so bring your friends from work and tell everyone you know to join in. We can’t wait to see you there.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DATE AND TIME FOR THIS EVENT HAS BEEN REVISED - THE EVENT WILL NOW HAPPEN ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13th FROM 6:30-7:30pm
Young Professionals in Foreign Policy is pleased to present you the first in a non-partisan series of events that aim to offer our members rare insight into the presidential campaign process as it unfolds. These events are not opportunities to showcase particular candidates, but to talk to the influential foreign policy advisors of Republican and Democratic campaigns about their experiences and opinions, the challenges of life on the campaign trail, the complex interactions between domestic politics and foreign policy, and the momentous choices that will face the next President.
Though the entire world confronts the threat of climate change, developing countries are poised to bear the brunt of its ill effects. Clustered in tropical areas, they risk experiencing increased natural disasters and facing dramatic declines in agricultural productivity. Moreover, developing countries are least able to afford the precautionary measures necessary to protect against global climate change. On the other hand, developing countries may also use the climate change threat as an opportunity to "leapfrog" the dirtier technologies of the industrialized world. A growing number of scholars and development practitioners are addressing these questions, and YPFP is delighted to welcome David Wheeler, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, to speak on this important issue.
This discussion will take place from 6:30-8:00 pm on Thursday, December 13. To attend, please register by responding to events@ypfp.org.
Addressing Internally Displaced Persons in a Peace Process
Date and Time
Friday, December 14, 2007
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location
U.S. Institute of Peace
2nd Floor Conference Room
1200 17th St, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Directions
RSVP Today
There is growing momentum within the international community and the UN system to address internal displacement in peace processes and mediation efforts. Resolving displacement is inextricably linked with achieving peace, especially where the scale of displacement is significant. Helping displaced populations to return and reintegrate can simultaneously address the root causes of a conflict and help prevent further displacement. However, IDPs often have needs that are different both from refugees and other war-affected civilian populations, and thus they require special attention in peace processes.
Project on National Security Reform (PNSR) Roundtable on Interagency Reform:
U.S. Landmine Policy and the Ottawa Process
Speaker:
COL. Dennis Barlow (ret.), Director of the Mine Action Information Center, James Madison University
* Friday, December 14, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
* Location: Hudson Institute, Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center, 6th floor auditorium, 1015 15th Street, NW
* Sponsor: Hudson Institute
* Please RSVP by sending your name and current institutional affiliation to Richard Weitz at Weitz@hudson.org.
Can Democracy Survive Globalization? Lessons From Taiwan
Keynote Speaker:
Senator Bob Dole, former Senate Majority Leader
- Monday, December 17, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- Location: Jack Morton Auditorium, 805 21st Street, NW
- Sponsored by: the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Formosa Foundation
- Please RSVP with your name, organization/ GW affiliation, and email to gsigur@gwu.edu by December 14.
Energy Security, Energy Urgency: Key Issues Facing the Next President
Event Information When
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Where
Falk Auditorium
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC
Directions
On December 2nd, Venezuelan voters narrowly rejected a slate of 69 constitutional amendments backed by President Hugo Chavez. This marks a major electoral setback for President Chavez and may change the course of Venezuelan politics. Given the increased tension between the United States and Venezuela in recent years, there is a unique opportunity to examine the relations between the two countries. How did U.S.-Venezuelan relations arrive at their current state and where are they going? How will this vote affect Venezuelan politics at home and its role in the region? To discuss these issues and more, please join Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, Ambassador to the United States from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The discussion will be held from 7:00-8:30 pm on Tuesday, December 18th. To attend, please register by responding to this events@ypfp.org.
Should Haiti Violate its Constitution One Last Time?
Date and Time
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
U.S. Institute of Peace
2nd Floor Conference Room
1200 17th St, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Directions
RSVP Today
President René Préval has termed Haiti's constitution the single greatest threat to the county's long-term stability. Préval has suggested specific changes and others have called for comprehensive reform. Haiti's constitution is among the worlds most liberal, but honoring its provisions may overtax Haiti's fledgling democracy. Following the prescribed amendment process could take decades.
The Road from Bali
Featured Speaker:
Senator John Kerry (D - MA)
Introduction by:
Melody Barnes, Executive Vice President for Policy, Center for American Progress Action Fund
After years of denial, delay, distraction and distortion, climate change is changing the political climate. Australia's John Howard recently became the first national leader voted out of office in large measure because of his failure to respond to citizens' concerns about global warming. Newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made global warming his first priority in office. Australia's awakening is not an isolated example. Eighty-three percent of Chinese support action on climate change. Between 2006 and 2010 China plans to improve energy efficiency by 20 percent. The dialogue in the United States is also shifting, albeit too slowly. Fifty-nine percent of Americans now endorse taking major steps soon to combat global warming, and 33 percent more think we need modest steps. Unfortunately this 92 percent of the American public is still looking to President Bush for action on this key issue.
Speakers:
Jeffrey Wasserstrom Professor of History and Department Vice-Chair UC Irvine
Jordan Sand Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures Georgetown University
Weiping Wu Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning Virginia Commonwealth University
In this presentation, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a U.C. Irvine China specialist and urban historian with broad comparative interests, will reflect on the dramatic way that several Chinese cities have changed over the past two decades. Drawing on material from his book China's Brave New World--And Other Tales for Global Times (Indiana University Press, 2007), he will touch upon topics ranging from what the arrival of Starbucks has meant for Beijing and Shanghai, to ways that Hong Kong's place in the Chinese and international imagination has changed since 1997, to what a revivified Mao would make of one of Nanjing's most unusual bookstores. He will also give a brief preview of some of the comparative, theoretical and stylistic issues he's wrestling with in the book he is currently writing, Global Shanghai, 1850-2010. Weiping Wu and Jordan Sand will comment on Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s presentation and will reflect more broadly upon their own work to consider the implications of urban growth and globalization for Asian cities and their people.
Location:
5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
Map and Directions
RSVP
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027
The Center for National Policy
invites you to a policy discussion entitled
Saudi Arabia's Role in
the Middle East
featuring
Thomas W. Lippman
Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute
and
Simon Henderson
Baker Fellow and Director, Gulf and Energy Policy Program,
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Wednesday, January 9 from noon-1:30pm
Please join the Environmental Change and Security Program for a discussion of
Innovative Partnerships for Peace: The Role of Extractive Industries in Resource-Based Conflict Prevention and Mitigation
featuring
Avecita Chicchón, Latin America and Caribbean Program Director, Wildlife Conservation Society
Jill Shankleman, Senior Social and Environmental Specialist, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, The World Bank
Mining Sector Representative, TBD
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org.
Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.
Natural resource-based industries such as mining, timber, oil, and gas often produce environmental and social impacts that can lead to or exacerbate conflict. Historically, extractive companies' "corporate social responsibility" interventions have sought to offset these impacts. Increasingly, however, some corporations and their NGO and community-based partners have been creatively and constructively utilizing private sector resources to prevent and mitigate conflict. This seminar will feature analysis of existing frameworks and Latin American case studies in which extractive industries have attempted to explicitly prevent and mitigate conflict and to promote peace and stability.
Jill Shankleman, senior social and environmental specialist in the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency of the World Bank, will give an overview of past and present private sector interventions targeting conflict. She will also outline existing frameworks designed to address these issues, such as the UN Global Compact and Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, and discuss ways to make them more effective. Avecita Chicchón, the director of the Latin America and Caribbean Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), will discuss how WCS, indigenous groups, and Gas TransBoliviano mitigated conflict during construction of the Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline. Finally, a representative of the mining sector will discuss its community engagement strategy.
If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 5th Floor Conference Room. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Due to heightened security, entrance to the building will be restricted and photo identification is required. Please allow additional time to pass through security.
China's Boomers
Implications if China's Deterrent Goes to Sea
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
New America Foundation
1630 Connecticut Ave, NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC
This summer's public revelation that China has constructed two or more new ballistic missile submarines raises a number of strategic, operational and bureaucratic questions about the future of nuclear arsenals held by China and the United States. How China deploys and operates these systems, as well as how the United States responds, will significantly impact the stability of deterrence in the Pacific.
With the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion fast approaching, it is an appropriate moment to consider the lessons that can be drawn from the current conflict. Should the doctrine of preventive war remain a part of American foreign policy? What can we learn from the successes and failures of the American counter-insurgency effort? Must nation-building be a component of future national security strategies? To discuss these issues and more, please join Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. To attend, please register emailing your name and affiliation to events@ypfp.org.
The International Labor Rights Forum, Global Policy Network and the Center for Research on Multinational Corporations Invite you to a Conference on
Development, Trade and Labor Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
Featuring
Congressman Phil Hare (D-IL)
Esther De Haan, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
Steve Ouma Akoth, Human Rights and Governance Expert, Kenya
Matsepo Anna Lehlokoana, Organizer, Lesotho Clothing and Allied Workers Union
June Hartley, Activist and International Labor Rights Expert, South Africa
Jeff Vogt, Global Economic Policy Specialist, AFL-CIO
Jayme White, Legislative Director, Office of Congressman Jim McDermott
Carol Pier, Senior Labor Rights and Trade Researcher, Human Rights Watch
Peter Bakvis, Director, Washington DC Office, International Trade Union Confederation
Kimberly Ann Elliot, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Dan Henkle, Senior Vice President, Social Responsibility, Gap Inc.
Mark Levinson, Chief Economist and Director of Policy, UNITE-HERE
The conference will feature the release of a report produced by the Netherlands-based Center for Research on Multinational Corporations and will provide the backdrop for a broader analysis and debate on the value of linkage, preference programs and the "winners" and "losers" when it comes to current global investment and trade policies.
The Women's Foreign Policy Group Presents a Book Forum on
CONDOLEEZZA RICE: An American Life by Elisabeth Bumiller
Elisabeth Bumiller
Correspondent, The New York Times
White House Correspondent (2001-2006)
In her new book, Elisabeth Bumiller explores Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s remarkable life as well as many of the great themes of day: national security, the war on terrorism, the values of our foreign policy, presidential politics, and the changing role of race and women. Elisabeth Bumiller, a Washington reporter for The New York Times, was a Times White House correspondent from September 10, 2001 to 2006.
Featured Foreign Policy Series Event
Burma: The Next Steps
Priscilla Clapp
Former United States Diplomat (Chief of Mission to Burma from 1999-2002)
Derek Mitchell
Senior Fellow and Director for Asia at the International Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Bo Hla Tint
NLD MP-Elect, Minister, Office of the Prime Minister (USA), National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB)
Drew Thompson
Director of China Studies and Starr Senior Fellow at The Nixon Center in Washington, D.C.
When thousands of Buddhist monks and Burmese citizens conducted peaceful protests calling for fairness and democracy in their country, global onlookers were stunned by the Burmese government's harsh response. What are the next steps for resolution in Burma? Join in a riveting discussion with Priscilla Clapp, Derek Mitchell, Bo Hla Tint, and Drew Thompson to examine possible scenarios for this nation's future.
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
6:30-8:00 pm
1800 K Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20006
Conference Room B1
Members: $10 Non-Members: $15 Students/Interns: Free
A light reception will follow the discussion.
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starring Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner
Followed by a discussion on:
Investigating Terrorism: Khobar, the Cole, and The Kingdom
with Michael Rolince
former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office's Counterterrorism Division
Consultant for The Kingdom
Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence Expert at Booz Allen Hamilton
Once the dust settles from a terrorist incident, the investigation begins. Who perpetrated the attack? What materials did they use? Who sponsored them? Which vulnerabilities did they exploit? These investigations often take years and involve hundreds of U.S. and foreign intelligence and law enforcement officers. Differing chain of evidence procedures, cultural miscommunication, and political pressures further complicate investigations. These tensions are showcased in the recent feature film The Kingdom, starring Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner.
Please join YPFP for a special screening of "The Kingdom". The showing will be followed by a discussion led by Michael Rolince, a consultant to this film and former FBI Special Agent in Charge for the Washington Field Office's Counterterrorism Division. To attend, please register by emailing your name and affiliation to events@ypfp.org.
