2012 EPIIC Symposium
http://www.tuftsgloballeadership.org/calendar/2012/02/22/2012-epiic-symposium
February 22, 2012 to February 26, 2012
Tufts University, Meford, MA | 7:00pm
Program: EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship)
The Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium
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Conflict in the 21st Century
February 22-26, 2012
The international symposium is an annual public forum designed and enacted by the EPIIC students. It features scores of international practitioners, academics, public intellectuals, activists and journalists in panel discussions and workshops.
Wednesday, February 22
• Power Transitions in the 21st Century, 7:00pm
Thursday, February 23
• The Present and Future Battlefield: Cyberwarfare and Robotics
Friday, February 24
• Eye to Eye, Drone to Drone: The Nature of Warfare, 12:00pm
• #Power: Youth, Technology and the State, 2:00pm
• Introductions and Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Addresses, 6:30pm
• Responsibility to Protect, Right to Prosecute?, 8:00pm
Saturday, February 25
• Resource Wars and the Changing Climate of Conflict, 10:00am
• Money, Munitions, and the Military: The Perpetuation of Conflict, 2:00pm
• Expert-led, Small-group Discussion, topics tbd, 4:00pm
• The Media and Warfare, 8:00pm
Sunday, February 26
• Covert Action: War and Foreign Policy, 1:00pm
• Post-Conflict Challenges, 3:30pm
Syposium Costs:
Full Symposium (10 panels) - $75
One Full Day (regardless of the number of panels) - $25 per day
Individual Panel - $15 per panel, tickets for each at the door
Tufts Student (any or all panels) - $5
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Speakers:
Mowaffak al-Rubaie, former National Security Advisor, Iraq (under the Coalition Provisional Authority); former MP, Iraq’s Council of Representatives (Parliament)
Ronald Arkin, Regents’ Professor and Director, Mobile Robot Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology; Co-editor, Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots
Ami Ayalon, former Commander, Israel Navy; former Director, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet); Member, Knesset
Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University; Author, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War
Susan Bissel, Chief of Child Protection, UNICEF
Jack Blum, Attorney, specializing in issues of money laundering, financial crime, and international tax evasion; former Investigator, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Timothy H. Chung, Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School; Gates Millenium Scholar alumnus
Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation; Research Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; former Senior Advisor, African Union High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan
Shannon French, Director, Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence, Case Western Reserve University; Author, The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values, Past and Present
Edward Girardet, Author, Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan; Co-editor, The Essential Field Guide to Afghanistan
Lt. General Dirk Jameson (USAF, ret), former Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff, U.S. Strategic Command
Andrew Kain, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AKE; former Member and Instructor, Special Air Service Regiment, United Kingdom
Gary Knight, Photojournalist; Co-founder, VII Photo Agency; Author, Evidence: The Case Against Milosevic; Founding Director, Program on Narrative and Documentary Practice, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Ariel Levite, Non-resident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment; former Principal Deputy Director General for Policy, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
Patrick Lin, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director, Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, California Polytechnic State University; Co-author, Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics
George R Lucas, Jr, Distinguished Chair in Ethics, Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, United States Naval Academy; Professor of Ethics and Public Policy, Graduate School of Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School
Abbas Maleki, former Deputy Foreign Minister, Iran; Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran; Director, International Institute for Caspian Studies and Senior Associate, International Security Program, Belfer Center, Harvard University
Kishore Mandhyan, Deputy Political Director and former Deputy Director of Political, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs, Executive Office, United Nations Secretary-General
Sherif Mansour, Senior Program Officer, Middle East and North Africa, Freedom House; Co-founder, International Quranic Center in Washington, DC
Jonathan D. Moreno, Author, Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century; Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Col. Mark “Puck” Mykleby (US Marines, ret.), Co-author (with Wayne Porter), “A National Strategic Narrative” as “Mr. Y”; former Special Strategic Assistant to the Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff; former Deputy Division Head for the development of strategy for Special Operations Forces, USSOCOM; former Fighter Pilot, US Marines; Senior Fellow, Smart Strategy Initiative, New America Foundation
Col. William Ostlund (US Army), former Commander, 2d Battalion (Airborne), 503d Infantry, Kunar Province, Afghanistan; former Deputy Commander, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Security Studies Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Steven Pinker, Author, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined; Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Capt. Wayne Porter (US Navy), Co-author (with Mark Mykleby), “A National Strategic Narrative” as “Mr. Y”; Chair, Systemic Strategy and Complexity, Global Public Policy Academic Group, Naval Postgraduate School; former Special Assistant for Strategic Synchronization to the Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gwyn Prins, Director, Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events, London School of Economics; Member, Strategy Advisory Panel, Minister of Defense, United Kingdom
Col. Ferdinand Safari, Defense Attache, Rwandan Embassy
Zainab Salbi, Founder and President, Women for Women International
Lowell H. Schwartz, Political Scientist, RAND Corporation; former Adviser on Arms Control and European Security, International Security Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Ervin Staub, Author, Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism; Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Audrey Tomason, Lead Analyst, former Senior Analyst for the Director of Intelligence, and former Lead Analyst on the DNI Homeland Threat Task Force, National Counterterrorism Center; former Director for Counterterrorism, National Security Staff
Abiodun Williams, Acting Senior Vice President, Center for Conflict Management, US Institute of Peace; former Director of Strategic Planning, Office of the United National Secretary-General
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