The 25th Anniversary Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium
Our Nuclear Age: Peril and Promise
The 25th Anniversary 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.
Schedule:
Wednesday, February 23 - Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Building
7:30pm
• Religion, Ethics, and the Bomb
Thursday, February 24 - Barnum Hall, Room 008
8:30am
• The Genie Travels On: The Challenges of Emergent Nuclear States (invitation-only full day professional workshop)
7:30pm
• Nuclear Renaissance? The Reliability and Desirability of Nuclear Power
Friday, February 25 - Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Building
12:00pm
• Nuclear Secrets: Democracy and the National Security State
2:00pm
• The Nuclear Regime: Power, Politics, and the Future of the NPT
Friday, February 25 - ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center
6:30pm
• Welcome and Introductions
7:00pm
• The Legacy of Hiroshima
7:30pm
• Dr. Jean Mayer Award Addresses
8:00pm
• The US Nuclear Strategic Posture: Deterrence, START and Beyond
Saturday, February 26 - ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center
9:30am
• Confronting North Korea
11:15am
• Rethinking Iran
2:30pm
• South Asia: Nuclear Ambitions and Intentions
Sunday, February 27 - ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center
1:00pm
• Nuclear Terrorism: The Global Specter
3:00pm
• The Day After: 21st Century Attack
Speakers Include:
- Graham Allison, Author, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe
- Emma Belcher, Stanton, Nuclear Security Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Thomas Blanton, Director, National Security Archive
- Amb Stephen Bosworth, Special Representative for North Korea Policy, US Department of State
- Matthew Bunn, Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
- Avner Cohen, Author, The Worst Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb
- David Cortright, Coauthor, Towards Nuclear Zero
- Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, US Department of State
- Olli Heinonen, Former Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA)
- Pervez Hoodbhoy, Professor of Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Department Head, Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan
- Han Hua, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Arms Control and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Peking University, China
- Paul Hughes, Director of the Nonproliferation and Arms Control Program, US Institute of Peace
- Thomas Isaacs, Director for the Office of Planning and Special Studies, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- George Lopez, Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Chair in Peace Studies, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
- Richard Meserve, Former Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Former Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy
- Steve Miller, Codirector, On the Global Nuclear Future Project, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- William J Perry, Former US Secretary of Defense; Former CoChair, Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States
- John Park, Senior Research Associate (Northeast Asia), Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, US Institute of Peace
- John Pastore, Former, Executive Secretary, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies and Director of the Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Gwyn Prins, Director, Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events, London School of Economics
- Gary Samore, Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism
- Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor
- Robert Rosner, Director, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago
- Jonathan Schell, Author, The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
- Etel Solingen, Author, Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East
- Jim Walsh, Member, Steering Committee, Fissile Material Security Working Group; Research Associate, Security Studies Program, MIT
Detailed Day-By-Day Program
Our Nuclear Age: Peril and Promise
The 25th Anniversary Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium
February 23-27, 2011
Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
www.tuftsgloballeadership.org
Wednesday, February 23
Religion, Ethics, and the Bomb
7:30pm
Michael Broyde
Professor of Law and Academic Director, Law and Religion Program, School of Law, Emory University
David Cortright
Coauthor, Towards Nuclear Zero; Director of Policy Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
J. Bryan Hehir
Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard University; Author, “The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change”
Michael Light
Visual Artist and Photographer; Author, 100 Suns
Chanikarn Wongviriyawong
PhD candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, Soka Gakkai International
Thursday, February 24
Nuclear Renaissance? The Reliability and Desirability of Nuclear Power
7:30pm
Introduction and Overview of “The Genie Travels On: The Challenge of Emergent Nuclear States” Workshop by co-conveners
Richard Meserve, Former Chairman, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Vincent Manno, Associate Vice Provost and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University
Richard Meserve
Former Chairman, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Former Chairman, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Steve Miller
Director, International Security Program, Harvard University; Co-director, On the Global Nuclear Future Project, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
William Moomaw
Professor of International Environmental Policy and Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Robert Rosner
Former Director, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago
Brice Smith
Author, Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change
Friday, February 25
Nuclear Secrets: Democracy and the National Security State
12:00pm
Thomas Blanton
Director, National Security Archive
will receive 2011 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen
Former Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy; Former Chief, Weapons of Mass Destruction Department, CIA
Svetlana Savranskaya
Director, Cooperative Projects with Russia, National Security Archive
Bryan Taylor
Associate Professor of Communication, University of Colorado-Boulder; Author, “Revis(it)ing Nuclear History: Narrative Conflict at the Bradbury Science Museum”
Alex Wellerstein
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Author, "Knowledge and the Bomb: Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, 1939–2008"
The Nuclear Regime: Power Politics and the Future of the NPT
2:00pm
Emma Belcher
Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Policy Adviser, Office of the Prime Minister, Australia
Han Hua
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Arms Control and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Peking University, China
Olli Heinonen
Former Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, International AtomicEnergy Commission (IAEA)
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Professor of Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Department Head, Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan
Steve Miller
Director, International Security Program, Harvard University; Co-director, On the Global Nuclear Future Project, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Nina Tannenwald
Associate Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; Author, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons since 1945
Welcome and Introductions
6:30pm
Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership
Lawrence Bacow, President, Tufts University
Jamshed Bharucha, Provost, Tufts University
100 Suns
Michael Light
Visual Artist and Photographer; Author, 100 Suns
The Legacy of Hiroshima
7:00pm
Introduction of Inquiry in Japan and 20th Anniversary of Inquiry
Heather Barry, AssociateDirector, Institute for Global Leadership
Tadatoshi Akiba
Mayor of Hiroshima; President, Mayors for Peace (via video)
Shigeko Sasamori
Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor
Inquiry in Japan
Efrain Perez, Junior, Banana Kelly High School
Ben Howard, Senior, Columbia Preparatory School
Ben Perlstein, Sophomore, Synaptic Scholar, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Nadia Nibbs, Senior, Synaptic Scholar, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
The US Nuclear Strategic Posture: Deterrence, START and Beyond
8:00pm
Graham Allison
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Author, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe
will receive 2011 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
Rose Gottemoeller
Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, US Department of State
will receive 2011 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
Paul Hughes
Director of the Nonproliferation and Arms Control Program, US Institute of Peace
Ariel Levite
Principal Deputy Director General (Policy) at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
William J Perry
Former US Secretary of Defense; Former CoChair, Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States
will receive 2011 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
Gwyn Prins
Director, Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events, London School of Economics; 2005 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Recipient
Student Participant
Ian Kelly, Freshman, EPIIC 2010-11 Colloquium Member
Saturday, February 26
Confronting North Korea
9:30am
Amb Stephen Bosworth
Special Representative for North Korea Policy, US Department of State; Dean, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; 2010 Dr. Jean Mayer Global CitizenshipAward Recipient
John Park
Senior Research Associate (Northeast Asia), Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, US Institute of Peace
Gary Samore
Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism
Etel Solingen
Author, Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East
Student Participants
Delegation from Seoul National University
Rethinking Iran
11:15am
Olli Heinonen
Former Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, International AtomicEnergy Commission (IAEA)
Ariel Levite
Principal Deputy Director General (Policy) at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
will receive 2011 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award
Gary Samore
Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism
Etel Solingen
Author, Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East
Jim Walsh
Member, Steering Committee, Fissile Material Security Working Group; Research Associate, Security Studies Program, MIT
South Asia: Nuclear Ambitions and Intentions
2:30pm
Han Hua
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Arms Control and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Peking University, China
Anupam Srivastava
Assistant Director for Research & Analysis, Center for International Trade and Security, University of Georgia
Vipin Narang
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Author, “Posturing for Peace? Pakistan’s Nuclear Postures and South Asian Stability”
Sunday, February 27
Nuclear Terrorism: The Global Specter
1:00pm
Matthew Bunn
Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
Olli Heinonen
Former Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, International AtomicEnergy Commission (IAEA)
Roger Molander
Social Scientist, RAND Corporation; Former Member, National Security Council Staff, principalarea of responsibility was strategic nuclear arms control
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen
Former Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy; Former Chief, Weapons of Mass Destruction Department, CIA
The Day After: 21st Century Nuclear Attack
3:00pm
David Cortright
Coauthor, Towards Nuclear Zero; Director of Policy Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Cdr Robert Green (British Royal Navy, retired)
Author, Security without Deterrence
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen
Former Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy; Former Chief, Weapons of Mass Destruction Department, CIA
Jim Walsh
Member, Steering Committee, Fissile Material Security Working Group; Research Associate, Security Studies Program, MIT
Student Participant
Avantha Arachchi, Sophmore, EPIIC 2010-11 Colloquium Member