This half-day discussion will assess the progress and challenges related to local and regional purchase, food quality, host country capacity, and moving to a comprehensive approach. USG program leaders and other food assistance experts will expand upon this time of significant changes in U.S food assistance programs. RSVP online.
This all-day meeting will cover recent general perceptions of the U.S. and China, how the media and other mediums are the sources of these perceptions, and the underlying conceptual differences. There are different conceptions of the role of law and religion and individual rights versus group interests. Experts will also discuss the policy impact of these differing perceptions and the future prospects of U.S. and China relations.
The Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity presents a two-session conference that will answer some of the questions pertaining to the concepts and frameworks of transitional justice. Register online.
Please join the National Security Network and the Center for American Progress Action Fund for an insightful conversation on issues of domestic terrorism with Congressman Keith Ellison and our distinguished panel of experts. Register online.
Please join the National Security Network and the Center for American Progress Action Fund for an insightful conversation on issues of domestic terrorism with Congressman Keith Ellison and our distinguished panel of experts. Register online.
The second event of the 2010 "PONI Debates the Issues" series will feature a panel discussion on the forthcoming Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that will likely generate debate within the panelists. To RSVP for the event, please contact Chris Jones here or by phone at (202) 775-3234.
The speaker's dissertation examines the broader questions of whether states are more likely to proliferate when their rivals do so, under what conditions such "reactive proliferation" is more or less likely, and what tools policymakers in Washington and elsewhere have to forestall further proliferation.
Steve Fetter, Assistant Director-at-Large, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will present on this topic.
With the signing of a new U.S.-Russia arms-reduction treaty, LACACIS offers a timely talk by arms control expert Linton Brooks who served as the Chief U.S. Negotiator for the recently expired Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
This event will feature a screening of the new movie "Nuclear Tipping Point," that also includes Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn and Gen. Colin Powell. The movie will be followed by a discussion.
PONI Debates the Issues will host the third even of the 2010 live debate series on Tuesday, May 25. The topic for the will be U.S. nuclear declaratory policy.
A workshop on building and sustaining community-academic partnerships. RSVP: jessica@globalwa.org
Please join the New America Foundation in a conversation with former Afghani Presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah.
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.
CSIS invites you to watch "Should the United States Continue to Reduce the Role of Nuclear Weapons in its National Security Strategy?" - part of the Global Security Forum: A review of the top security issues on our horizon.
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/
The prize, a cash award of $500,000, will be presented to Akbar Ganji on May 13, 2010, at the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty's Biennial Dinner at the Hilton Washington in Washington D.C. The schedule for the black tie event: 6:30 p.m. reception, 7:30 p.m. dinner.
CAPITOL HILL BRIEFING (Lunch Included)
BOOK FORUM 4:00 PM (Reception To Follow)
With the one year anniversary of his speech early next month, today's panel event will examine what steps this administration has taken to address national security policies that have adversely impacted U.S. charities, humanitarian aid groups, grantmakers and donors.