Schedule
Friday, April 8, 2005
10:30am - 12:00pm
Keynote Address
Beyond Rhetoric: Towards a Palestinian-Israeli Peace
Dr. Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi, Secretary-General, the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH)
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Boxed Lunch
Location: Shultz Dinning Room, Robertson Hall
1:00pm - 2:30pm
U.S. Public Diplomacy Toward the Arab/Muslim World: Winning - or Losing - Hearts and Minds
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Moderator: Amb. Edmund Hull, Diplomat in Residence, Princeton University
Panelists:
Hady Amr, MPA '91, Managing Partner, Amr Group
Nadia Bilbasey, Washington correspondent, Al-Arabiya TV
Amb. Theodore Kattouf, MCF '83, CEO, AMIDEAST
Description: Why have US efforts at public diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim world largely failed? Do we understand the current challenge, and can we deploy an effective response? What are the current policies, what is wrong with them, and what should we do better? What are the most innovative new policies governments could adopt to better represent American policy to foreign publics. Furthermore, what role should non-governmental organizations, the private sector, and educational institutions play?
Sponsor: WWS Office of External Affairs
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Coffee Break
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Keynote Address
Winning the War on Terrorism
Gen. (ret.) Anthony Zinni, former commander of U.S. Central Command
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
4:30pm - 5:00pm
Coffee Break
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Re-Securing the Homeland: Is the Patriot Act the Right Solution for Homeland Security?
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Moderator: Keith E. Whittington, Associate Professor of Politics and Acting Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University
Panelists:
Nat Hentoff, Columnist, The Village Voice
Stuart S. Taylor, Jr., Columnist, National Journal
John Yoo, Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
Description: Following the attacks of September 11th, 2001, a host of laws and regulations were developed to increase homeland security. These policies now have a track record of over three years. What have their actual effects been? Have they been effective? At what cost? Have they undermined their own goals, or have they made us safer? Are civil liberties groups correct to denounce these laws as undermining basic rights? Looking to the future, which of these measures should remain in effect, how can their potential negative effects be minimized, and what more is needed?
Sponsor: James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Alumni Reception
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Dinner for panelists, keynotes, sponsors, and invited guests
Location: Bernstein Gallery, Robertson Hall
7:30pm
Alumni Dinner
Saturday, April 9, 2005
8:30am - 9:00am
Breakfast
9:00am - 10:15am
Government Networks: Comparing and Coordinating Approaches to Terror
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Moderator: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Panelists:
Sidney J. Caspersen, Director, New Jersey Office of Counter-Terrorism
Christopher Kojm, MPA '79, John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University and former Deputy Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission
Amb. Thomas Stelzer, Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations (Vienna)
Lee S. Wolosky, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Description: While in news conferences national governments clash over efforts to combat terrorism, on the level of implementation government officials increasingly cooperate with their counterparts abroad to share intelligence, coordinate police action, and track terrorist finances. What is the extent of this cooperation, and how effective is it? How do such networks form consensus and handle issues of disagreement? How can they be made more effective? What broader implications to these networks have for multilateralism and global governance?
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School
10:15am - 10:30am
Coffee Break
10:30am - 12:00pm
Fighting Fire with Fire? Assessing the Ethics of Torture and Detention
Location: Bowl 016, Robertson Hall
Moderator: Charles Beitz, Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Panelists:
George Kateb, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, Princeton University
Heather Mac Donald, John M. Olin fellow, Manhattan Institute and Contributing Editor, City Journal
Deborah Pearlstein, Director, U.S. Law and Security Program, Human Rights First
Description: May governments justifiably override safeguards of individual rights -- such as habeas corpus, the prohibition on torture, and protections for privacy -- in response to threats of terror? Are policies of preemptive war, unlimited detention, and rendition, in current circumstances, the lesser evil? Or are these and similar measures properly regarded as dangerous abuses of power, symptoms of imperial hubris, and harbingers of worse to come?
Sponsor: Center for Human Values
Measuring Success in Combating Terrorism
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Moderator: Alan B. Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Princeton University
Panelists:
Larry C. Johnson, CEO and Co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC
Raphael Perl, Senior Analyst for terrorism policy, Congressional Research Service
Peter Probst, former CIA Officer, International Terrorism Expert
Description: How do we know when we've won the war on an "ism?" What indicators will allow us to objectively measure success against an intangible concept, especially one often prone to political manipulation? How can empirical methods be applied to assess the various costs and benefits of policies aimed at fighting terrorism? How have our efforts measured up so far and what benchmarks can we set for the future?
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School / Industrial Relations Section
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Boxed Lunch
Location: Shultz Dining Room, Robertson Hall
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Keynote Address
Maj. Gen. (ret.) Giora Eiland, Israeli National Security Advisor
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
2:30pm - 2:45pm
Coffee Break
2:45pm - 4:15pm
Regional Approaches to Terror
"Global" terrorism is often discussed in the abstract. Indeed, the rhetoric surrounding the "war on terror" suggests a general conflict that occurs both everywhere and nowhere. In reality, the use of terror tactics is often closely linked to localized politics and ideologies. How are different regions responding to terror? What local differences must be accounted for, and what broad lessons can be learned?
Beyond Al-Qaeda: Terrorism in the Arab Civil War
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Moderator: Michael Doran, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Panelists:
Col. Thomas F. Lynch, III, CENTCOM
Michael Young, Daily Star
Michael Rubin, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Sponsor: Program in Near Eastern Studies
Regional Fronts in a Global War? Assessing the 'War on Terror' in Kashmir, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
Location: Bowl 016, Robertson Hall
Moderator: Jason Lyall, Instructor in Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Panelists:
Sumantra Bose, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science
Matthew Evangelista, Director of the Peace Studies Program, Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University
Amb. Robert P. Finn, Ertegun Visiting Professor in the Near East Studies Department, Princeton University
Martha Brill Olcott, Senior Associate, Co-director of the Carnegie Moscow Center Project on Ethnicity and Politics in the former Soviet Union, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School
4:15pm - 4:30pm
Closing Reception
Location: Bernstein Gallery, Robertson Hall
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Preparing for the Road Ahead: How Do We Ready a New Generation?
Location: Bowl 016, Robertson Hall
Moderator: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Panelists:
Michael Beckmann, Director, Presidential Management Fellows Program, U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Diane Castiglione, Director of Recruitment, U.S. Department of State
Frederick P. Hitz '61, former Inspector General of the CIA
Joan Timoney, Vice President for Programs, Partnership for Public Service
Description: For the United States, the launch of Sputnik catalyzed the training of a generation of leaders to manage the Soviet challenge. After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. faces new challenges and threats. How should future public leaders be educated to address the "terror" problem? What skills and knowledge do they need? How can we motivate and mobilize these students in adequate numbers to serve? How can the government attract and place the right people for the right government jobs? As the Woodrow Wilson School is about to celebrate its 75 th Anniversary, what is the role of it and other public affairs schools in meeting this new challenge?