Program | Schedule
“Mr. Y”: US National Strategic Policy Directions
Antonia Chayes, Professor of Practice in International Politics and Law, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; former Under Secretary of the US Air Force*
Lt. General Dirk Jameson (USAF, ret), former Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff, U.S. Strategic Command
Col. Mark “Puck” Mykleby (US Marines, ret.), Co-author (with Wayne Porter), “A National Strategic Narrative” as “Mr. Y”; former
Special Strategic Assistant to the Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff; former Deputy Division Head for the development of
strategy for Special Operations Forces, USSOCOM
Capt. Wayne Porter (US Navy), Co-author (with Mark Mykleby), “A National Strategic Narrative” as “Mr. Y”; Chair, Systemic Strategy and Complexity, Global Public Policy Academic Group, Naval Postgraduate School; former Special Assistant for Strategic Synchronization to the Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff
Eye to Eye, Drone to Drone: The (De)Personalization of Warfare
Ronald Arkin, Regents’ Professor and Director, Mobile Robot Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology; Co-editor, Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots
Ami Ayalon, former Commander, Israel Navy; former Director, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet); Member, Knesset
Lt. General Dirk Jameson (USAF, ret), former Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff, U.S. Strategic Command
William Ostlund (US Army), former Commander, 2d Battalion (Airborne), 503d Infantry, Kunar Province, Afghanistan; former Deputy Commander, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Security Studies Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Col. Ferdinand Safari, Defense Attache, Rwandan Embassy
Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Wendell Wallach, Chair, Working Research Group in Technology and Ethics, Yale University
#Power: Youth, Technology and the State
Montasser Jemali Anas, Student, Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences, Tunis; President and Founder, League of Young Patriots
Oliver Wilcox (EPIIC’01), Senior Development Advisor, Middle East Bureau, US Agency for International Development*
Sherif Mansour, Senior Program Officer, Middle East and North Africa, Freedom House; Co-founder, International Quranic Center in Washington, DC
Student Presentations:
Welcome/Introductions/Recognition
Recognition of Amir, Author of Zahra’s Paradise, and Lt. Anne Gibbon, Naval Special Warfare Development Group, US Navy
Dr. Jean Mayer Award Keynote Address
Steven Pinker, Author, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined; Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Discussant: Christopher Lydon, Journalist; Host, Radio Open Source
Responsibility to Protect, Right to Prosecute?
Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation; Research Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; former Senior Advisor, African Union High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan
Steven Pinker, Author, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined; Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Discussant: Christopher Lydon, Journalist; Host, Radio Open Source
Kishore Mandhyan, Deputy Political Director and former Deputy Director of Political, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs, Executive Office, United Nations Secretary-General
Col. William Ostlund (US Army), former Commander, 2d Battalion (Airborne), 503d Infantry, Kunar Province, Afghanistan; former Deputy Commander, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Security Studies Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Gwyn Prins, Director, Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events, London School of Economics; Member, Strategy Advisory Panel, Minister of Defense, United Kingdom
Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Abiodun Williams, Acting Senior Vice President, Center for Conflict Management, US Institute of Peace; former Director of Strategic Planning, Office of the United National Secretary-General
Bystanders, Perpetrators and Survivors: A Global Health Perspective on Sexual Violence
Hassa Blake, Co-Founder, Focal Point Global
Dimitrios Bouras, Photojournalist, Greece, currently working on HIV/AIDS
Jennifer F. Klot, Senior Advisor, Social Science Research Council, and directs initiatives on Gender, Security and HIV/AIDS
Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights
The Nexus of Water and Disease
Junaid Ahmad, Director of Sustainable Development, Middle East and North Africa, World Bank
Jeffrey Griffiths, Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine; Chair, Drinking Water Panel, Environmental Protection Agency
David M. Gute, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts; former Assistant Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Daniele Lantagne, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University; former Public Health Engineer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Janine M. H. Selendy, Founder, Chairman, President and Publisher, Horizon International, Yale University; Editor, Water and Sanitation Related Diseases and the Environment: Challenges, Interventions and Preventive Measures
Student Presentation
Village Zero Project: Maia Majumder, David Meyers, Tara Kola
Drugs for Survival: The Pharmaceutical Industry
Jerome Kassirer, former Editor, New England Journal of Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Karin Mack, Team Lead, Unintentional Drug Deaths, National Center for Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Introduction and Keynotes
Anthony Monaco, President, Tufts University, Symposium Introduction
Gwythian Prins, Director, Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events and Research Professor, London School of Economics
Zoonoses and Pandemics: The Next Big One
Scott F. Dowell, Director, Division of Global Disease Detection & Emergency Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist; Author, The Coming Plague
Christos Lynteris, Andrew Mellon & Isaac Newton Interdisciplinary Research Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge
Kristine Smith, Associate Director of Health and Policy, EcoHealth Alliance
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
The State and the Media
• Yevgenia Albats, Editor-in-Chief, The New Times, Moscow; Permanent Professor, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• Karina Alexanyan, Postdoctoral Scholar/Project Manager, mediaX, Stanford University; Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
• Oksana Boyko, Host, Worlds Apart, RT TV; former Political and Foreign Correspondent (confirmed in principle for this panel)
• Karoun Demirjian, Moscow Correspondent, The Washington Post
• Irina Gordienko, Correspondent, Novaya Gazeta; Nieman Fellow, Harvard University
• Max Trudolyubov, Fellow, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center; Former Editor and Columnist, Vedomosti
Russia and Asia: The Bear Looks East?
• Alexander Cooley, Professor and Chair, Political Science Department, Barnard College, Columbia University; Deputy Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University; Author; Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
• Guan Guihai, Associate Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University
• Shiv Khemka, Vice Chairman and Director of investment and entrepreneurial activities in Russia and Ukraine, SUN Group, India; Chairman, Russia Country Committee, Confederation of Indian Industry
• Artyom Lukin, Associate Professor, Deputy Director for Research, School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok
• Vitaly Kozyrev, Associate Professor, Endicott College, Senior Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; former Professor, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University
Welcome, Introductions and Keynote
Anthony Monaco, President, Tufts University
James Glaser, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University
Sherman Teichman, Founding Director, Institute for Global Leadership
Ben Spevack, EPIIC 2015 Colloquium Member
• Alumni Award Presentation: Alexandra Vacroux (EPIIC’86), Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; James Hershberg
• Kirill Koroteev, Senior Lawyer, Human Rights Centre, Memorial, Moscow
• Joshua Rubenstein, Former Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International; Author, Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
A Keynote Conversation on the U.S.-Russian Relationship
• Robert Legvold, Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
• Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center; former Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Europe, Moscow; served in the Russian Armed Forces, 1972-93
The New Cold War? Russia-U.S. Relations
• Oksana Boyko, Host, Worlds Apart, RT TV; former Political and Foreign Correspondent
• Matthew Rojansky, Director, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center; former Deputy Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Feodor Voitolovsky, Head of the political section, Center for North American Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAN); Co-author, IMEMO’s 2013 annual forecast on “Russia and the World: Economy and Foreign Policy”
• Andrew S. Weiss, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Dr. Legvold, Amb. Matlock, and Dr. Trenin will join the panel discussion
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]
[EXPOSURE] is the Institute for Global Leadership's undergraduate-led program for photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights.