EVENTS ARCHIVE

  Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series: The Premier Lecture Peter Bergen CNN’s National Security Analyst, and Director of the National Security Studies Program at the New American Foundation in Washington, D.C. will discuss “Making Sense of a Troubled World” 7:30 p.m.         Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Sponsor:             East Carolina University – Greenville, […]

ENTRAPMENT OR NECESSARY TOOL THE ROLE OF INFORMANTS AND UNDERCOVER OFFICERS IN TERRORISM CASES Share Tweet Facebook Email event | September 25, 2015    ENTRAPMENT OR NECESSARY TOOL : THE ROLE OF INFORMANTS AND UNDERCOVER OFFICERS IN TERRORISM CASES Friday, September 25, 2015 12:15 PM – 01:45 PM 1899 L Street NW Suite 400 Washington, […]

Date: September 15, 2015 Event Location: Neville Center – North Platte, NE Sponsor: Town Hall of North Platte / https://www.facebook.com/pages/North-Platte-Town-Hall-Lecture-Series/196838967015404 Event Description: Town Hall Speaker Series Audience: approximately 900 members of the local community and season ticket holders. Schedule of Events: 9:30 AM – Media Interview 10:30 AM – Speech 12:00 PM – Lunch plus Q&A Session Title of Presentation: “A World of […]

    You are cordially invited to attend a talk featuring                               PETER BERGEN   “Homegrown: Americans Fighting for Militant Islam”   Tuesday, August 18, 2015 • 12:00 p.m.   University of Southern California Doheny Memorial Library • Room 240 3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089   • Book signing to follow •   […]

  Drones and Aerial Observation New Technologies for Property Rights, Human Rights, and Global Development   Wednesday, July 22, 2015 08:00 AM – 02:45 PM 1899 L Street NW Washington, DC 20036 RSVP   Clear and secure rights to property—land, natural resources, and other goods and assets—are crucial to human prosperity. Most of the world’s […]

Save the dates for SVWC 2015: July 17 – 20 SPEAKERS/PARTICIPANTS   PETER BERGEN JILL BIALOSKY JEFFREY BROWN WILLIAM COHAN WILLIAM DALRYMPLE ANTHONY DOERR JOHN T. EDGE SHERI FINK RICHARD FORD ALEXANDRA FULLER ROBERT GATES BETH MACY DINAW MENGESTU MARY ROACH STACY SCHIFF HAMPTON SIDES NATASHA TRETHEWEY LAWRENCE WRIGHT ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Background Become a […]

Events | July 02, 2015 | 12:15 PM – 01:45 PM | Team of Teams In the new book Team of Teams, General McChrystal and his coauthors, David Silverman and Chris Fussell, show how the challenges they faced in Iraq, Afghanistan, and over a decade of special operations missions around the globe can be relevant […]

Blood Year In June 2014, ISIS seized Mosul, the anchor of northern Iraq and home to more than two million. Can we recover from this? What does a coherent strategy look like after this disastrous year? In “Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State,” Dr. David Kilcullen draws upon interviews with communities and combatants, work […]

Contested Terrain: The Future of Afghan Women Share Tweet Facebook Email event | May 28, 2015    Contested Terrain: The Future of Afghan Women Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:15 PM – 01:45 PM 1899 L Street NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036 RSVP   With the U.S. withdrawing from Afghanistan and a new Afghan government […]