EVENTS ARCHIVE

Afghanistan & Pakistan Insurgency: From Public Perceptions to Insurgent’s Grievances and Motivations   This event will bring together a distinguished panel of current USIP grantees to discuss motivations and grievances of the insurgents in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, feasibility and challenges of negotiations with Afghan insurgents, and the perceptions of Pakistani youth about the future […]

Civilian Casualties in Pakistan The Strategic Importance for the US and Pakistan Please join the New America Foundation’s Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative for the launch of a new report by the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC), “Civilians in Armed Conflict: Civilian Harm and Conflict in Northwest Pakistan.” Participants Featured Speaker Christopher Rogers Pakistan Field […]

CUTTING THE FUSE: MOVING BEYOND THE WAR ON TERROR TUESDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2010 8:30 am Registration – 5:00 PM Adjournment The Congressional Auditorium Visitor Center, U.S. Capitol RSVP to Clemons@NewAmerica.net   For those not in Washington, we hope to stream this event live at The Washington Note and make it available for later viewing.  There […]

Hiding in Plain SightThe Threat From Unsecured Radiological Materials Breakfast will be provided.Wednesday, October 6, 20108:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.The New America Foundation 1899 L St. NW, Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20036   Featured Speaker The Hon. Jane Harman Chairperson, Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment Committee on Homeland Security U.S. House […]

The New America Foundation (NAF) holds a film screening and discussion on “Restrepo,” which follows American soldiers deployed in Afghanistan’s Korangal Valley between May 2007 and July 2008. TIME: 5 p.m. LOCATION: The New America Foundation, 1899 L Street NW, Suite 400, Washington, D.C. CONTACT: Kate Brown, 202-596-3365, brown@newamerica.net; communications@newamerica.net; PARTICIPANTS: Tim Heterington, director of […]

See more news releases in: Aerospace & Defense, Homeland Security, Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy & International Affairs The Aspen Institute Announces 2010 Aspen Security Forum Speakers include Mike Mullen, Michael Leiter, and Michael Chertoff WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Aspen Institute Homeland Security Program announces its first annual forum on homeland security and counterterrorism, […]

Striking Remotely: Predator Drones Wednesday, 14 April; 6:30 pm “The only game in town.” — Leon Panetta, CIA director, May 2009 Predator drones were initially developed for unmanned aerial reconnaissance. They are now the go-to weapon used against al-Qaeda and the Taliban for targeted assassinations in Pakistan and Afghanistan by the CIA. This controversial program […]

  NewsCNN national security analyst presents “Obama’s War” at Benedictine 3/30/2010Phil Brozynski, Media Relations Manager (630) 829-6094 pbrozynski@ben.edu CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, who produced Osama bin Laden’s first television interview during which he declared war against the United States, will present “Obama’s War: al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Afghanistan” at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, […]

CNN security analyst Peter Bergen. His talk begins at 8 p.m. in Farthing Auditorium. Admission is free. Bergen’s talk is titled “Obama’s War: Global Terrorism and the Urgency for a Stable Afghanistan.” His talk is presented by the University Forum’s Distinguished Lecture Series.

Effective Interrogation Techniques Eliciting Information, Deradicalization and Counterinsurgency From Indonesia to Iraq Join the New America Foundation and The National Interest for a discussion with Matthew Alexander, the former senior military interrogator who led an elite interrogation team in Iraq that found Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former al-Qaeda leader, who was killed in a subsequent […]