The Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium
February 24-27, 2011
The international symposium is an annual public forum designed and enacted by the EPIIC students. It features scores of international practitioners, academics, public intellectuals, activists and journalists in panel discussions and workshops.
This year’s Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award recipients include:
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Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan; President of Mayors for Peace. |
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Amb. Stephen W. Bosworth, US Special Representative for North Korea Policy; Dean, The Fletcher School, Tufts University. |
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Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation. Most recently she was a senior associate in the Carnegie Russia & Eurasia Program in Washington, D.C., where she worked on U.S.–Russian relations and nuclear security and stability. |
| Dr. Richard Meserve, Chairman of the International Nuclear Safety Group chartered by the International Atomic Energy Agency and of the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. | |
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William J. Perry, Fellow at the Hoover Institution; is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University, with a joint appointment in the School of Engineering and the Institute for International Studies. |
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Martin Sherwin, Professor Emeritus of History, Tufts University; Co-Author, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Pulitzer Prize). |
Advisers and Panelists include:
- William Burr, Director, Nuclear History Documentation Project, National Security Archive
- Avner Cohen, Author, The Worst Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb
- Freeman Dyson, Former Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Study; Author, Weapons of Hope
- Natalie J. Goldring, Senior Fellow in the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
- Paul Hughes, Executive Director, Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States
- Chung Min Lee, Dean and Professor of International Relations, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul; Member, President’s Foreign Policy Advisory Council,
South Korea - Sen. Sam Nunn (GA, 1972-96), Co-Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative; former Chair, US Senate Armed Services Committee
- George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies and Director of the Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Co-Author, “Abolishing Nuclear Weapons”
- Jonathan Schell, Doris Shaffer Fellow, The Nation Institute; Author: The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of the Nuclear Danger
- Abiodun Williams, Vice President, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, US Institute of Peace
- Valerie Plame Wilson, Author, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House; Consultant, Santa Fe Institute




