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

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.

 

Institute for Global Leadership Overview

The mission of the IGL is to prepare new generations of critical thinkers for effective and ethical leadership, ready to act as global citizens in addressing international and national issues across cultures. In 2005, the IGL was named a distinctive, cross-school program of the University. The Institute emphasizes rigorous academic preparation and experiential learning. Students learn through intensive engagement in classes, global research, internships, workshops, simulations and international symposia - all involving national and international leaders from the public and private sectors. Among its more than 16 programs are EPIIC, Inquiry, the China Cross-Cultural Leadership Program, and EXPOSURE, and it offers many opportunities for global research and internships.

IGL activities stress critical and normative thinking, written and oral communication skills, problem-solving, and multidisciplinary approaches. There is an emphasis both on individual progress and on collaborative effort and students produce tangible outcomes to their studies through their research papers, the international forums, and other projects.

The Institute promotes the linkage of theory to practice and exposes students to the rigors and challenges of a diverse world.

 

The Project on Justice in Times of Transition Overview

The Project on Justice in Times of Transition brings together individuals from a broad spectrum of countries to share experiences in ending conflict, building civil society and fostering peaceful coexistence. It currently operates in affiliation with the Foundation for a Civil Society in New York and the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University. Since its creation in 1992 by co-chairs Wendy Luers and Timothy Phillips, the Project has conducted over 50 programs for a variety of leaders throughout the world and has utilized its methodology to assist them in addressing such difficult issues as the demobilization of combatants, the status of security files, police reform, developing effective negotiating skills, political demonstrations, and preserving or constructing the tenets of democracy in a heterogeneous society. Through its innovative programming, the Project has exposed a broad cross-section of communities in transition to comparable situations elsewhere, and has contributed to the broadening of international public discourse on transitional processes.

In recent years the Project has conducted programs that have helped practitioners and political leaders strategize solutions in a variety of countries and regions, including Afghanistan, Colombia, East Timor, Guatemala, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Palestine and Peru.

 

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)