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TERROR AND TRANSFORMATION
Lecture Series
A series of lectures, discussions, and panels on September 11th and beyond
Monday, November 26 - Tuesday, December 4, 2001
Sponsored by the Institute for Global Leadership and its EPIIC Program --
in collaboration with the International Relations Program, the Fletcher School,
the Department of Political Science, Hillel and the Office of the Dean of Arts
and Sciences
For more information: www.tuftsgloballeadership.org or call x73314
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Monday, November 26
“Regional Politics and the Fall Out of the War in Afghanistan and Pakistan”
4:00pm, Hillel Large Chapel
Thomas Barfield
Chair, Department of Anthropology, Boston University; author, The Central Asian
Arabs of Afghanistan: Pastoral Nomadism in Transition; he has worked on refugee
repatriation and war reconstruction for Afghan refugees in Pakistan
Beatrice Manz
Professor of History, Tufts University
Eden Naby
Historian; co-author, Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid
Amb. Thomas Simons
Former United States Ambassador to Pakistan; Consulting Professor, Stanford
University
“Islam and Terrorism”
7:30pm, Hillel Large Chapel
Professor Roy Mottahedeh
Gurney Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Islamic Studies,
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; author, The Mantle of
the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran -- he will speak on “Bin Laden and
his Adversaries”
Geneive Abdo
Nieman Fellow, Harvard University; former Teheran correspondent, The Guardian;
author, No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam
Tuesday, November 27
“Terrorism, War and International Law”
1:00pm, Hillel Large Chapel
Alfred Rubin
Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy; author,
Ethics and Authority in International Law
“Terrorism and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”
4:00pm, Tisch AV 316
Geoffrey Aronson
Author, Israel, Palestinians and the Intifada: Creating Facts on the West Bank;
Editor, Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories, FMEP
Amb. Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.
US Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism, 1994-1997
“How To Wage The War on Terrorism: Counterterrorism and US Foreign Policy”
7:30pm, Pearson 104
Amb. Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.
US Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism, 1994-1997; former Assistant
Secretary of State for Intelligence & Research and Assistant Secretary of State
for Middle Eastern Affairs
Ayesha Jalal
Professor of History, Tufts University; author, State of Martial Rule: The
Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defense
Wednesday, November 28
“Are We Being Well-Informed? The Media and the War on Terrorism”
12:30pm, Hillel, Large Chapel
Robert Giles
Curator, The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University; former
president, American Society of Newspaper Editors; former director of The
Freedom Forum Center in New York
“Countering Terrorism at Home”
4:00pm, Hillel Large Chapel
Paul Joseph
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program,
Tufts University
Juliette Kayyem
Executive Director, Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness; former member,
National Commission on Terrorism; Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard University
“Countering International Terrorism: A Comprehensive Security Approach”
7:30pm, Barnum 008
Richard Perle
Chairman, Defense Policy Board, Department of Defense; Assistant Secretary of
Defense for international security policy, 1981-1987; Producer, PBS, The Gulf
Crisis: The Road to War, 1992; Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Thursday, November 29
"The Roots of Terror Argument: Iniquity and Inequity"
4:00pm, Tisch AV 316
Amb. Jonathan Moore
Senior Adviser on International Development, United Nations Development
Programme; Former U.S. Ambassador-at-large for Refugees and Refugee Assistance;
Former Director, John F. Kennedy School of Politics, Harvard University;
Author, Hard Choices
Roberto Laver
Former Senior Economist and Adviser, World Bank; Adjunct Faculty, The Fletcher
School
“Democracies and Terrorism: Lessons Learned in Ireland and Israel”
7:30pm, Pearson 104
Kieran McEvoy
Faculty, Department of Law, Queens University, Belfast; author, Resistance,
Management and Release : Paramilitary Imprisonment in Northern Ireland
Eitan Felner
Former Director, B’Tselem, Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the
Occupied Territories; Chair, Amnesty International
Sherman Teichman
Director, Institute for Global Leadership
Friday, November 30
“Human Rights and Civil Rights At Home & Abroad After 9/11”
1:00pm, Hillel Large Chapel
Ambassador John Shattuck
Executive Director and CEO, The Kennedy Library; former United States Assistant
Secretary of State for Human Rights; former US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia;
former director, ACLU, Washington, D.C.
Monday, December 3
Rigor in Research: How To Research the Official Record -- FOIA Requests
11:30am, Institute for Global Leadership, 128 Professors Row
John Prados
Senior Fellow, National Security Archive; author, The President’s Secret Wars:
CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from WWII Through The Persian Gulf and
Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
“The Role and Mission of US Special Forces”
4:00pm, Hillel Large Chapel
John Prados
Senior Fellow, National Security Archive; author, The President’s Secret Wars:
CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from WWII Through The Persian Gulf and
Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
Col. Russ Howard
Head of the Social Sciences Department, U.S. Military Academy; Former
Commander, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne); former Assistant to the Special
Representative to the Secretary General during UNOSOM II in Somalia; former
Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander for the Combined Joint Task Force, Haiti
Tuesday, December 4
“Health, Women and Refugees: Dilemmas of Reconstructing Afghan Society
12:30pm, Hillel Large Chapel
Lynn L. Amowitz, MD
Human Rights Fellow, Physicians for Human Rights; author, Women’s Health and
Human Rights in Afghanistan: A Population-Based Assessment
Susannah Sirkin
Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights
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