As Washington, America, and the rest of the world ready for a new administration, questions abound over the fate of the War on Terror. In 1953, Containment’s torch passed from Truman to Eisenhower; will President Bush’s construct survive the transition? How has Al Qaeda evolved and where is it heading? What new strategies – if any – should be pursued to deal with these developments? What does victory look like and how will we achieve it? To discuss these issues and more, please join Peter Bergen, Schwartz Senior Fellow at New America Foundation.
The discussion will be held from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 6th. To attend, please register by responding to events@ypfp.org with your name and affiliation.

Peter Bergen

Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist, and the author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden (Free Press, 2001), which has been translated into 18 languages. In 1997, he was one of the first journalists to interview Osama bin Laden. His new book is The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al Qaeda’s Leader (Free Press, 2006). Both books were named among the best non-fiction books of the year by The Washington Post, and documentaries based on the books were nominated for Emmys in 2002 and 2007. Mr. Bergen is CNN’s terrorism analyst; an adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and a fellow at New York University’s Center on Law & Security. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Rolling Stone, Washington Monthly, The Nation, The Times (UK), The Daily Telegraph (UK), The Guardian (UK), The Sunday Times (UK), and Prospect (UK). He is a member of the editorial board of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and has testified on Capitol Hill. Mr. Bergen holds a M.A in modern history from New College, Oxford University.

As a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, Mr. Bergen researches and writes on the al-Qaeda network and on the problem of global terrorism. Mr. Bergen's personal Web site can be accessed at www.peterbergen.com.