Civilians and Soldiers: Increasing National Participation in Security and Defense

The 2008 Intellectual Roundtable: Civilians and Soldiers: Increasing National Participation in Security and Defense, seeks to explore the increasing need to combine intellectual and technical competencies that have, until now, largely been relegated into separate civilian or military spheres. The Intellectual Roundtable, ALLIES' capstone event, brings together practitioners from the military, civilian government, civil society, and private sector with the academic community—from professors to civilian and military students. Together, through the use of guided, small-group discussions in conjunction with panel presentations, these disparate groups come together to discuss issues surrounding civil-military relations, relevant to all parts of society. The 2008 Intellectual Roundtable will address how to involve a more diverse set of actors in national security by engaging with future leaders in the formative stages of their education, giving them a head start and an adequate base of knowledge for addressing the foremost issues of our age. More information here