Event Type: Other
Start Date: 07/20/2010   Time: 12:00-2:00 pm     
Location:1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW  Washington, DC 20036-5317
Event Summary:

The Obama Administration’s strategy of engaging the world – particularly through multilateral institutions – has proven to be one of the most pronounced foreign policy differences from the previous administration.  Please join us for an exciting Members Lunch discussion about this approach with the Obama Administration’s leading official on multilateral engagement – Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Esther Brimmer.  Brimmer will explain the administration’s approach to multilateralism and engagement, its achievements, and its plans for the future.  The Assistant Secretary’s remarks will be followed by reactions from two distinguished panelists: Charles Kupchan, author of How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace, and Stewart Patrick, author of The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War.  Their presentations will be followed by an open discussion with the audience. 

Event Type: Workshop-Training
Start Date: 07/19/2010   Time: 2:00 -5:00 pm     
Location:  New York, NY 
Event Summary:

The aim of the seminar is to help organizations understand the fragmented European institutional funding landscape; to learn how to easily identify funding programs and opportunities; and to devise a strategy for researching and mapping donors.

 

Event Type: Presentation
Start Date: 07/14/2010   Time: 12:30-2:00 pm     
Location:  Washington, DC 
Event Summary:

Joao de Vallera, ambassador of Portugal to the United States; Patricia Pinto Soares, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow at CTR; and Michael J. Matheson (moderator), visiting research professor of law at George Washington University, will discuss this topic. For more information and to RSVP, contact transatlanticrsvp@jhu.edu.

Event Type: Conference
Start Date: 06/22/2010   Time: 9:00 -9:00 pm     
Location:555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW  Washington, DC 20565
Event Summary:

The Rights and Resources Initiative is pleased to announce the Fifth Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change to be held in Washington, DC on Tuesday June 22, 2010, at the Newseum's Knight Conference Center. The RRI Dialogues on Forests, Governance and Climate Change are designed to foster critical reflection and learning on forest governance, the rights of forest communities and Indigenous Peoples, and forest tenure in the context of global action to combat climate change.

Event Type: Conference
Start Date: 06/17/2010   Time: 12:30-2:00 pm     
Location:1730 Pennsylvania Avenue NW  Washington, DC 
Event Summary:

Join Steven Kull and U.S. in the World this Thursday, June 17, at 12:30 pm Eastern to discuss public attitudes about international institutions, foreign assistance, military engagements, and defense spending - and on the implications of those attitudes for advocacy. Please register online to participate in person or via phone.

 

 

Event Type: Media-Press Conference
Start Date: 06/08/2010   Time: 9:00 -11:00 am     
Location:1800 K Street NW  Washington, DC 20006
Event Summary:

You are cordially invited to the release of the 2010 edition of the Global Peace Index, an initiative of The Institute for Economics and Peace. Please RSVP at http://gpi2010.eventbrite.com/

 

 

 

Event Type: Conference
Start Date: 06/02/2010   Time: 8:00 am-6:00 pm  
End Date: 06/04/2010  
Location:Between 7th and 9th Streets and N Street and Mt. Vernon Place  Washington, DC 
Event Summary:

Featuring thought provoking plenary sessions and workshops with more than 100 experts from around the world, Forum 2010 will bring together 1000 professionals from more than 250 organizations representing the international non-profit community, government, corporate and philanthropic sectors.

Connect, Influence, Engage

• With government decision makers, private sector leaders and reflief and development experts
• With hundreds of peers who share your interests and commitments
• To shape the direction of the NGO sector and protect the NGO space

NEW:  The Kojo Nnamdi Show will broadcast LIVE from Forum 2010 including two back-to-back plenary sessions on Thursday, June 3rd.

NEW:  Closing Plenary Session: Haiti-A New Way Forward will include a special video message from UN Special Envoy to Haiti President William J. Clinton.

 

Event Type: Presentation
Start Date: 05/19/2010   Time: 2:00 -3:30 pm     
Location:  Washington, DC 
Event Summary:

Please join CSIS for the first Washington discussion of the final analysis and recommendations of the Group of Experts on NATO's new Strategic Concept. To RSVP, please contact KissingerChair@csis.org or (202) 775-3104.

Event Type: Presentation
Start Date: 04/28/2010   Time: 7:00 -9:00 pm     
Location:  Washington, DC 
Event Summary:

Join Citizens for Global Solutions for a screening and discussion of The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court.

Event Type: Conference
Start Date: 03/30/2010   Time: 9:00 am-5:00 pm     
Location:  Washington, DC 
Event Summary:

This Washington College of Law conference will bring together leading experts in the field to discuss the challenges of ratification, implementation, and other preliminary issues in advance of the Review Conference of the Rome Statute to be held in Kampala, Uganda in May and June 2010. Register online.

Event Type: Presentation
Start Date: 03/24/2010   Time: 2:30 -3:30 pm     
Location:  Washington, DC 
Event Summary:

On March 24, the Brookings Institution's Managing Global Insecurity Project (MGI) at Brookings will host a discussion on reforming the United Nations and NATO to meet 21st century global challenges. Register online.

Event Type: Reception
Start Date: 03/01/2010   Time: 5:00 -7:00 pm     
Location:122 Maryland Avenue NE  Washington, DC 
Event Summary:

Join us March 1 as we celebrate the publication of a new book, Civil Society Under Strain; Counter-Terrorism Policy, Civil Society and Aid Post 9/11 (Kumarian Press) with a discussion and reception at the Stewart R. Mott house.

Event Type: Presentation
Start Date: 02/16/2010   Time: 2:30 -4:00 pm     
Location:  Washington, DC 
Event Summary:

On February 16, the Managing Global Insecurity project and The Carter Center will host a conversation on U.S. leadership at the Council, as it approaches its five-year review. Register online.

Event Type: Other
Start Date: 12/29/2009   Time: 7:00 am-1:00 pm  
End Date: 12/30/2009  
Location:  ,  
Event Summary:

The Globalfamily Day Program is offering a $1000 scholarship for the best 250 letter (or video-letter) to President Barack Obama, telling him why we need Global Family Day, a January 1st time-out to practice peace and sharing as one human family. It's already approved by the U.S. Congress and UN General Assembly. All we need is for the president to proclaim it. The winning letter will be published in the Honolulu Star Bulletin on Wednesday, December 30th, giving the president plenty of time to be persuaded by your words! Check out www.gfday.org, then send your entry with a release for publication and posting on our website to globalfamilyday@aol.com.

Event Type: Media-Press Conference
Start Date: 12/16/2009   Time: 11:29 am-1:00 pm     
Location:1 Street NE  Washington, DC 20003
Event Summary:

The media and the public are invited to attend a news conference, hosted by the Global Family Day Program, on Wednesday, December 16, 2009, at 11:30 am, in the Room H-137 in the U.S. Capitol Building. During this conference, Senate and House supporters, several Ambassadors, and baseball legend Doug Bair will talk about this powerful new tool for human unity (H. Con. Res. 221and S. Res. 357)

Event Type: Presentation
Start Date: 11/24/2009   Time: 5:30 -6:30 pm     
Location:  Medford, MA 
Event Summary: Panel on the future of UN peacekeeping from the perspective of key actors.

Event Type: Workshop-Training
Start Date: 11/19/2009   Time: 12:30-2:00 pm     
Location:1120 19th Street NW  Washington, DC 20036
Event Summary:

Treaties are a tough sell for many groups promoting responsible U.S. global engagement. With their scattered domestic constituencies and small but vocal opposition, multilateral treaties are likely to get stalled in the ratification process -- sometimes for decades. This Thursday, join us in person or via webinar for a messaging briefing and discussion focused on the treaty process.

 

Event Type: Presentation
Start Date: 11/12/2009   Time: 9:00 am-5:00 pm  
End Date: 11/15/2009  
Location:  Washington, DC 
Event Summary:

Join 200 Friends from around the country for three days of skills building, strategizing, and worshipful discernment. Please register online.

Event Type: Presentation
Start Date: 11/10/2009   Time: 9:00 -10:00 am     
Location:  Washington, DC 
Event Summary:

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hear testimony on one multilateral and four bilateral treaties.

Event Type: Reception
Start Date: 11/03/2009   Time: 4:00 -6:00 pm     
Location:2223 Massacusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008  Washington,, DC 20008
Event Summary:

11/3/09 Reception Invitation: World Public Opinion on International Law and the World Court