Program | Schedule
ALLIES: Diplomatic Crisis Simulation Exercise: Algeria
The Intellectual Roundtable Simulation is a diplomatic crisis simulation centering around a potential geo-political crisis in Algeria that would have consequences for the stability of the entire MENA region, with concerns for American interests as well. The simulation begins with a joint exercise between the US African Command (AFRICOM) and the Algerian National People’s Army (ANP), in the face of decreasing stability in the country, brought about by the significant inroads of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) into the southern portion of the country. Move 1 revolves around the increased threat of AQIM, which is coming into increased conflict with Algerian security forces, creating both human rights and stability concerns. Students will consider themselves advisors to the National Security Council and will evaluate the dangers to American interests in Algeria and possible strategies to confront them.
ALLIES: Post Arab Spring Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East and North Africa
- Mr. Ahmed Ali – Senior Analyst on Iraq and Iraq Team Leader, Institute for the Study of War
- Mr. Karim Haggag – Deputy Director, Policy Planning Division, Foreign Ministry, Egypt • CAPT (ret.) Mark Huber – Program Manager, Middle East and Central Asia, Center for Civil-Military Relations, Naval Postgraduate School
- Dr. Marina Ottaway – Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Co-author, Getting to Pluralism: Political Actors in the Arab World; Co-editor, Yemen on the Brink
EPIIC Alumni Reception
IGL is hosting a reception of EPIIC alumni to bring this special community together. Come reconnect with old friends, say hello to IGL co-founder and director, Sherman Teichman and hear about this year’s symposium. We hope you will join us.
Refreshments will be served. After the reception, please join us for the symposium’s opening Cultural Night featuring music from the region and performers such as violinist Nabih Bulos, Concertmaster for the Palestinian National Orchestra. The event will be held in the Distler Performance Hall of the Granoff Music Center (across the street from the reception) at 8pm.
ALLIES Keynote Address: Kathleen Hicks
Former Principal Deputy Undersecretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense, where she led the development of the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance and the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review; Henry A Kissinger Chair and Senior Vice President, Center for Strategic International Studies
Cultural Evening
PROGRAM
Tickets are priced the same as the regular events of the EPIIC Symposium. Please refer to Overview for pricing. Tufts students participate in the entire symposium (concert included) for $5.
The State of the States in the Middle East and North Africa
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Presentation of the ALLIES Joint Research Project 2013 to Turkey
ALLIES: Civil-Military Collaboration in Security Sector Reform
- Vice Admiral Paul J Bushong – US Security Coordinator, Israel-Palestinian Authority, Jerusalem
- Dr. El Ghazawi – Egyptian Ministry of the Interior; International Fellow, Peace Keeping and Stability Operations Institute, U.S. Army War College
- COL (ret.) Anthony Leito – Professor of Governance Planning, Peace Keeping and Stability Operations Institute, U.S. Army War College
- Dr. Richard Shultz – Professor of International Politics and Director, Security Studies Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
ALLIES: Israel’s Perspective on the Strategic Environment
- BG Rami Ben Efraim – Special Assistant, J5 Commander, Israeli Defense Forces; former Commander, Ramat David AFB
ALLIES: The Impact of Civil-Military Relations on Domestic Political Decisions
- COL (ret.) Michael Hess – Former Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
- Mr. Richard Hoffman – Senior Lecturer and Director, Center for Civil-Military Relations, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; former Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the Sixth U.S. Army
- Ms. Heather Hurlburt – Former Executive Director, National Security Network; former Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State
Collapse of Soveriegnty: The State of the State Report
- Nimrod Hurvitz | Professor of Middle East History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
- Ariel Levite | Nonresident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Principal Deputy Director General for policy, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
- Introduction by Marie Jose Fabre, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Keynote Address: 100 Years after World War I: Enduring Consequences for the Middle East and North Africa
- Elizabeth Thompson | Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia; Author, Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East
- Introduction by Abuzar Royesh, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
The Future of the Kurds
- Mowaffak al Rubaie | Former National Security Advisor, Iraq; former Member of Parliament, Iraq
- Maria Fantappie | Iraq and Kurd Analyst, International Crisis Group
- Kamal Kirkuki | Speaker, Kurdistan Parliament, and Member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Kurdish Regional Government, Iraq
- Malik Mufti | Professor of Political Science, Tufts University; and Author, Daring and Caution in Turkish Strategic Culture: Republic at Sea
- Student Presentation: Ethan Finkelstein and Ryan Youkilis, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
- Moderated by Gia Rowley, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Iraq: Its Uncertain Future
- Mowaffak al Rubaie | Former National Security Advisor, Iraq; former Member of Parliament, Iraq
- Peter Harling | Project Director, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria and Senior Middle East and North Africa Adviser, International Crisis Group
- Richard Shultz | Director of the International Security Studies Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Author, The Marines Take Anbar: The Four Year Fight Against al Qaeda
- Emma Sky | Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute, Yale University; former Political Advisor to U.S. General Ray Odierno, Iraq; former Governorate Coordinator of Kirkuk, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq
- Student Presentation: Elayne Stecher, Yasir Abbas, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
- Moderated by Patrick Hamon, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Civil-Military Relations and Security Sector Reform in Political Transitions
- Ibrahim el Ghazawi | Former Advisor, Office of the Minister of Interior, Egypt; Visiting Fellow, U.S. Army Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)
- Karim Haggag | Deputy Director, Policy Planning Division, Foreign Ministry, Egypt
- Anthony S. Lieto | Colonel (ret.) U.S. Army; Professor of Governance Planning, U.S. Army Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI); former Chief of the Office of Military Cooperation and Senior U.S. Defense Official in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Yemen
- Jean-Louis Romanet Perroux | PhD Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Independent Consultant for Governance in Libya
- Moderated by David Riche, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Student Presentations
- Sarah Butterfield and Isabel Weiner, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
- Jackie Faselt, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Political Islam and Governance
- Mohammed S Dajani Daoudi | Founder and Executive Director, Wasatiyya, Moderate Islamic Movement in Palestine; Founding Director, American Studies Institute, Al Quds University
- Issandr el Amrani | Project Director, North Africa, International Crisis Group; Founder, The Arabist blog
- Amr Hamzawy | Spokesman, “Board of Wise Men,” established to mediate between the Mubarak government and the protestors in 2011; Founder, Freedom Egypt Party; former Member of Parliament, Egypt
- Robert P. Parks | Director, Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines en Algerie (American Institute for Maghrib Studies)
- Hugh Roberts | Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History, Tufts University; former Director, North Africa Project, International Crisis Group
- Emmanuel Sivan | Professor Emeritus of History, Hebrew University; former Advisor, Office of the Prime Minister, Israel; former Editor, Jerusalem Quarterly
- Student Presentation: Max Fathy and Rebecca Varley, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
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Presentation of EPIIC Colloquium Recognition Award by Kirsten Gute, 2014EPIIC Colloquium Member
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Moderated by Sam Whitefield, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Introductions and Keynote
- Introductions and Welcomes, 6:30pm:
- David Harris | Provost and Senior Vice President, Tufts University
- Sherman Teichman | Director, Institute for Global Leadership
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Gabriella Zoia | 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
- Keynote Address, 7:00pm
- William J Burns | Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State; Career Ambassador; former Under Secretary for Political Affairs; former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; former Ambassador to Jordan
- Introduction and Dr. Jean Mayer Award Presentation by Mahpari Sotoudeh, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
US Foreign Policy and Security in the Middle East and North Africa
- Bernardino León | Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean Region, European Union; former Secretary-General and Foreign Policy Adviser, Office of the Prime Minister, Spain
- Augustus Richard Norton | Professor of International Relations and Anthropology, Boston University; Author, Civil Society in the Middle East
- Adm. James Stavridis (US Navy, ret.) | Dean, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO Alliance
- Tamara Cofman Wittes | Senior Fellow and Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, US Department of State
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Moderated by Rebekah Waller, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
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Dr. Jean Mayer Award Presentations by Sookrit Malik and Madeleine Pelton, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
Domestic Politics in the Gulf: Regional Impact
Sami al Faraj | President, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies
Abeer Allam | Journalist; Saudi Arabia Correspondent, Financial Times
Frederic Wehrey | Senior Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author, Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprising
Matar Ebrahim Matar | Scholar at Risk, Bahrain; Former Member of Parliament with the al-Wefaq Political Party, resigned in protest of government crackdown on pro-democracy protestors; Recipient, 2011 Leaders of Democracy Award, Project on Middle East Democracy
Presentation of the Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy by Lilly Tahmasebi '17, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Presentation of Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy
Presentation of Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Award for Public Diplomacy to Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kuwait
Vying for Influence: Iran and Saudi Arabia
Nawaf Obaid | Visiting Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Special Advisor for National Security Affairs to Prince Turki Al Faisal, Saudi Arabia
Ali Vaez | Senior Analyst for Iran, International Crisis Group
Wu Bingbing | Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Culture, Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University
Moderated by Ayesha Forbes '15, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
International Institutions and Intervention
Saad Eddin Ibrahim | Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
Richard Atwood | Director of Research and future Director of Multilateral Affairs, International Crisis Group
Eileen Babbitt | Professor of Practice of International Conflict Management, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Michael Niconchuk | Emergency Response Coordinator, Questscope
Duncan Pickard | Nonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East; Constitutional Adviser, Democracy Reporting International
Mark Katz | Professor of Government and Politics, George Mason University; Author, “Moscow’s Middle East Policy” (inFocus Quarterly, 2014)
Hugh Roberts | Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History, Tufts University; former Director, North Africa Project, International Crisis Group
Moderated by Elissa Miller '14, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Expert-led Discussions/Breakout Sessions
Political Islam
Mowaffak al Rubaie | Former National Security Advisor, Iraq; former Member of Parliament, Iraq
Mohammed S Dajani Daoudi | Founder and Executive Director, Wasatiyya, Moderate Islamic Movement in Palestine; Founding Director, American Studies Institute, Al Quds University
Elizabeth Nugent | PhD Candidate, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Robert P. Parks | Director, Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines en Algerie (American Institute for Maghrib Studies)
State of the State
Nimrod Hurvitz | Professor of Middle East History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Jonathan Shimshoni | Retired Battalion and Brigade Commander, Israeli Defense Forces; Author, Israel and Conventional Deterrence
Media
Ahmed Benchemsi | Visiting Scholar, Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, Stanford University; Founding Publisher and Editor, TelQuel (French) and Nishan (Arabic)
Amahl Bishara | Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University; Author, “New Media and Political Change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Assembling Media Worlds and Cultivating Networks of Care”
Nabih Bulos | Independent Journalist
Mourad Gargoum | Former Head, Media Office, National Council for Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Libya
Rule of Law & Human Rights
Enes Aldsrey | Head, Documenting and Monitoring Department, Benghazi Office, National Council for Civil Liberties and Human Rights
Saad Eddin Ibrahim | Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
Sherif Mansour | Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists; former Senior Program Officer, Freedom House
Iran and Nuclear Proliferation
Ariel Levite | Nonresident Senior Associate, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Principal Deputy Director General for policy, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
Ali Vaez | Senior Analyst for Iran, International Crisis Group
Trauma and Resilience
Justine Hardy | Mental Trauma Specialist; Writer
Entrepreneurship
Gideon Argov | Founder, Shlomo Argov Fellows, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel; Advisory Director, Berkshire Partners
Dick Simon | Chair and Co-Founder, Peace Action Network, Young Presidents’ Organization
Terrorism
Aaron Zelin | Richard Borow Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, King’s College of London
Refugees
Mike Niconchuk | Emergency Response Coordinator, Questscope
Curt Rhodes | Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Women
Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh | Scholar at Risk, Iran; Founder, Meydaan Zanan (Women’s Field); former Editor in Chief, Farzaneh Journal; Editor and Chief Researcher, Alternative National Report on Women’s Status in Iran
Dalia Ziada | Executive Director, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
Israel-Palestine
Robert Blecher | Deputy Program Director, Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group
Mouin Rabbani | Head, Programme in the Middle East, Conflict Management Initiative
Gulf politics
Sami al Faraj | President, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies
Abeer Allam | Journalist; Saudi Arabia Correspondent, Financial Times
Lebanon
Sahar Atrache | Lebanon Analyst, International Crisis Group
Alex Taylor | Former Reporter and International Editor, The Daily Star, Beirut; MALD Candidate, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
The Unraveling of Syria
Nabih Bulos | Independent Journalist, contributing to Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio and other major media outlets
Curt Rhodes | Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Denis Sullivan | Professor of Political Science and Director, Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development, Northeastern University
Aaron Zelin | Richard Borow Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, King’s College of London
Radwan Ziadeh | Scholar at Risk, Syria; Recipient, 2009 Academic Freedom Award, Middle East Studies Association; Senior Fellow, United States Institute for Peace; Founder and Director, Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies
Irina Zvyagelskaya | Vice-President, Centre for Strategic and Political Studies, Russia; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Presentation of Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award by Bruna Gaspar '16, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Moderated by Sam Rock '14, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Keynote Address: American Policy and the Arab Revolutions
R. Nicholas Burns | Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008, he was the lead U.S. negotiator on Iran’s nuclear program; Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Border Crossings: Refugees, Jihadists, Money, and Arms
- Michaël Béchir Ayari | Senior Analyst, Tunisia, International Crisis Group
- BG Rami Ben Efraim | Special Assistant, J5 Commander, Israeli Defense Forces; former Commander, Ramat David AFB
- Curt Rhodes | Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
- Ibrahim Warde | Author, The Price of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror; Consultant and Adjunct Professor of International Business, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
- Moderated by Iris Levine, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Student Presentations
- Elizabeth Robinson, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
- Umar Shareef, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members Adrienne Larson and Tory Martin, Poverty and Power Research Initiative Co-Chairs, Institute for Global Leadership
Education, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
- Perihan AbouZeid | Co-Founder and CEO, Qabila Media Productions, Egypt; Legatum Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Junaid K. Ahmad | Director, Sustainable Development Unit Middle East and North Africa, World Bank
- Inger Andersen | Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank
- Robert Springborg | Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
- Muthanna Khreisat | Jordan Country Director, Questscope
- Moderated by Samantha Lund, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Member
Student Presentations
- Bradley Friedman and Adam Nagy, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
- Bahar Ostadan and Katherine Saviano, 2014 EPIIC Colloquium Members
Callouts
ALLIES
The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) is an undergraduate organization dedicated to improving civilian-military relations.
TILIP
The Tufts Initiative for International Leadership and Perspective (TILIP) is a program that seeks to foster cross-cultural team building through intensive, intellectual inquiry and practical study.
[EXPOSURE]
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