Photographs in the above banner are by Matthew Edmundson (Tufts'05, EPIIC'04, EXPOSURE'04-05) and Jacob Silberberg (Tufts'02, EPIIC'01, IGL China Program'02)
Introduction
Iraq is convulsed with indiscriminate killings and rampant sectarian violence. Whether Iraq is in the throes of a civil war or heading in that direction is moot (and it is really only a debate that is more about the semantics of body counts than a contribution to a fuller understanding of the dynamics that drive the cycles of vengeance and retribution). The only certainty is that unless all the parties to the conflict can pull themselves and the communities they represent back from the brink of self destruction, Iraq will disintegrate and its people will be devoured by a war in which people kill because they fear that if they do not kill first, they will be killed.
This stark statement of where Iraq is provides the context for the Institute for Global Leadership’s Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Global Public Diplomacy Initiative. The three-day program brings together key international players from several divided societies, the United States and the Middle East, including both participants in the conflicts that at one time consumed their own countries and the practitioners of conflict management who have explored the dynamics that underpin reconciliation. The purpose of the program is to bring the lessons of their collective narratives of violent confrontation and subsequent efforts to mediate differences through peaceful means to bear on the situation in Iraq.
Program
Monday, January 29, 2007 | The Future of Iraq
7:30pm | Cohen Auditorium, Aidekman Arts Center
Introductions
- Padraig O'Malley, John Joseph Moakley Professor of International Peace and Reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts
- Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership,
Tufts University
- Robert Bendetson, Chairman, External Advisory Board, Institute
for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Invocation
- Ahmad Iravani, Director of Islamic Studies and Dialogue at Catholic University’s
Center for the Study of Cultures and Values
Program (click here for full bios)
- Haider Al Abadi, Member, Iraqi Council of Representatives; Chairman,
Economy, Investment and Reconstruction Committee, Council of Representatives,
Former Minister of Communications, Iraqi Government; a Leader, Al-Dawa
Party
- Ali Allawi, Former Minister of Defense and Minister of Trade,
Interim Iraq Government Council; Former Minister of Finance, Iraqi
Transitional Government; Author, The Occupation of Iraq Winning the War,
Losing the Peace
- Barbara Bodine, Former US Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen;
Former Deputy Chief of US Mission, Kuwait; Former Coordinator for Counterterrorism,
US Department of State; Former Deputy Principal Officer, US Embassy,
Baghdad
- Peter Galbraith, Author, The End of Iraq:
How American Incompetence Created a War Without End; Former Staff Member,
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he documented Iraqi atrocities
against the Kurds
- Feisal
Amin al-Istrabadi, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations
for Iraq; Former Deputy to the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament
- Brett McGurk, Director for Iraq, National Security Council; Former
Associate General Counsel, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad
- Lt. Col.
Isaiah (Ike) Wilson III, US Army, Academy Professor and the Director
of American Politics, Public Policy and Strategic Studies, United
States Military Academy; Former Chief of Plans, 101st Airborne Division
(Air Assault), Mosul, Iraq
Moderator
- John Shattuck, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human
Rights, and Labor, US Department of State; Member, External Advisory
Board, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts
University
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
| Confronting Violence and Extremists: Experiences from Bosnia,
Guatemala, Liberia, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
2:00-4:00pm | Balch Arena Theater, Aidekman Arts Center
Program (click here for full bios)
- Padraig O'Malley, John Joseph Moakley Professor of International Peace and Reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts
- Ali Allawi, Former Minister of Defense and Minister of Trade, Interim
Iraq Government Council; Former Minister of Finance, Iraqi Transitional
Government
- Jose Maria Argueta, Former National Security Advisor of Guatemala
- Brigadier
General Khalid Hamid Al Doori, Deputy Chief of Operations, Ministry
of Defense, Iraq; Fellow, US Army War College
- Aboobaker Ismail, Former
Commander of Special Operations, African National Congress; Former
Chief of Policy and Planning, Department of Defense, South Africa
- Jacques Paul Klein, Former Special Representative of the
Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations, Bosnia
and Herzegovina and Liberia
- Chris MacCabe, British Joint Secretary, Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental
Conference
- Mac Maharaj, Former ANC Lead Negotiator in talks with the
National Party Government, South Africa; Former Joint Secretary
of the Transitional Executive Council
Facilitators
- Wendy Luers, Co-Chair, Project on Justice in Times of Transition
- Timothy
Phillips, IGL Board Member, Co-Chair, Project on Justice in Times of
Transition
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
| Sovereignty and Semi-States: The Case of Iraqi Kurdistan
4:30-6:00pm | Public EPIIC Class, Crane Room, Paige Hall
- Matan Chorev A’05, F’07, EPIIC’04, Co-Founder, New Initiative
for Middle East Peace, Institute for Global Leadership
- Matthew Edmundson A’05, EPIIC’04,
Co-Founder, EXPOSURE, Institute for Global Leadership
Wednesday, January 31,
2007 | Iraq, Iran and the Middle East
12:00-3:00pm | Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center
Program (click here for full bios)
- Haider Al Abadi, Member, Iraqi Council of Representatives; Chairman,
Economy, Investment and Reconstruction Committee, Council of Representatives,
Former Minister of Communications, Iraqi Government; a Leader, Al-Dawa
Party
- Ali Allawi, Former Minister of Defense and Minister of Trade, Interim
Iraq Government Council; Former Minister of Finance, Iraqi Transitional
Government
- Hossein Askari, Iran Professor of International Business and
Professor of International Affairs, The George Washington University;
Author, Middle East Oil Exporters: What Happened
to Economic Development?;
Former Mediator between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kuwait
- Lahkdar Brahimi*,
Former Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Iraq, United Nations Secretary
General; Former Foreign Minister, Algeria
- Sami Al-Faraj, Adviser, National Security, Crisis Management, and Strategic
Planning, Gulf Coordinating Council Secretary General; President, Kuwait
Center for Strategic Studies, Kuwait
- Omar Ghazi Al-Shahery, Deputy
Director General, Defense Intelligence and Security, Ministry of
Defense, Iraq
Moderator
- Andrew Hess, Professor of International Diplomacy, The Fletcher
School, Tufts University; Faculty Advisory Committee, Institute
for Global Leadership, Tufts University