2012 EPIIC Symposium: February 22-26, 2012
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The 27th Annual Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium
Conflict in the 21st Century
February 22-26, 2012
Syposium Costs:
Full Symposium (10 panels) - $75
One Full Day (regardless of the number of panels) - $25 per day
Individual Panel - $15 per panel, tickets for each at the door
Tufts Student (any or all panels) - $5
Tufts alumni, Tufts parents and students from other universities: Full symposium (10 panels) - $25
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.
Wednesday, February 22
• Power Transitions in the 21st Century, 7:00pm, Alumnae Lounge
Thursday, February 23
• Implications of Brain Research, Cyber Systems and Robotics for National Securiy, 9:00am-5:00pm
• The Present and Future Battlefield: Cyberwarfare, Neuroscience and Robotics, 7:00pm, Alumnae Lounge
Friday, February 24
• “Mr. Y”: US National Strategic Policy Directions, 10:00am, Cabot Auditorium
• Eye to Eye, Drone to Drone: The (De)Personalization of Warfare, 12:00pm, Cabot Auditorium
• #Power: Youth, Technology and the State, 2:00pm, Cabot Auditorium
• Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Keynote Address, 6:30pm, Cabot Auditorium
• Responsibility to Protect, Right to Prosecute?, 8:00pm, Cabot Auditorium
Saturday, February 25
• Resource Wars and the Changing Climate of Conflict, 10:00am, Cabot Auditorium
• Money, Munitions, and the Military: The Perpetuation of Conflict, 2:00pm, Cabot Auditorium
• Expert-led, Small-group Discussions, 4:00pm, Cabot Auditorium
• The Media and Warfare, 8:00pm, Cabot Auditorium
Sunday, February 26
• Future Flashpoints 1:00pm, Cabot Auditorium
• Post-Conflict Challenges and Building Peaceful Societies, 3:30pm, Cabot Auditorium
Speakers:
Sami al-Faraj, Founder and Director, Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies
Braden Allenby, Chair, Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security
Mowaffak al-Rubaie, former National Security Advisor, Iraq
Ronald Arkin, Regents’ Professor and Director, Mobile Robot Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology
David Art, Author, Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe
Adm. Ami Ayalon, former Commander, Israel Navy
Andrew J. Bacevich, Author, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War
Nick Birnback, Chief, Public Information, United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS)
Susan Bissel, Chief of Child Protection, UNICEF
Jack Blum, Attorney, specializing in issues of money laundering and financial crime
David D. Clark, Senior Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation,The Fletcher School,Tufts University
Carlotta Gall, Senior Reporter for Afghanistan/Paki- stan, The New York Times
Edward Girardet, Author, Killing the Cranes:A Reporter’s Journey through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan
Lt. General Dirk Jameson (USAF, ret), former Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff, U.S. Strategic Command
Andrew Kain, former Member and Instructor, Special Air Service Regiment, United Kingdom
Gary Knight, Photojournalist; Co-founder, VII Photo Agency
Ariel Levite, former Principal Deputy Director General for Policy, Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
Herbert Lin, Chief Scientist, National Research Council of the National Academies
Abbas Maleki, Associate Professor of Energy Policy, MIT
Sherif Mansour, Senior Program Officer, Middle East and North Africa, Freedom House
William Moomaw, Professor of International Environ- mental Policy,The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Jonathan D. Moreno, Author, MindWars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century
Col. Mark “Puck” Mykleby (US Marines, ret.), former Deputy Division Head, Development of Strategy, Special Operations Forces, USSOCOM
Col. William Ostlund (US Army), former Commander, 2d Battalion, 503d Infantry, Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Christian Parenti, Author, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
Steven Pinker, Author, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Capt. Wayne Porter (US Navy), Chair of Systemic Strategy and Complexity, Naval Postgraduate School
Gwyn Prins, Director, Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events, London School of Economics
Peter Rosenblum, Clinical Professor, Human Rights Law, Columbia Law School
Col. Ferdinand Safari, Defense Attache, Rwandan Embassy
Zainab Salbi, Founder and President, Women for Women International
Lowell H. Schwartz, Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
Jake Sherman, Deputy Director for Programs (Conflict), Center for International Cooperation, New York University
Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Ervin Staub, Author, Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism
Wendell Wallach, Chair, Working Research Group on Technology and Ethics, Yale University
Oliver Wilcox, Senior Development Advisor, Middle East Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development
Abiodun Williams, Acting Senior Vice President, Center for Conflict Management, US Institute of Peace
John P. Williams, Program Manager, Asymmetric and Irregular Threats, The Johns Hopkins University
Zhang Qingmin, Professor of Diplomacy, Center for International and Strategic Studies, Peking University
Sergey Zuev, Rector, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
More Information
2012 Symposium Registration
Full Program
Pugwash Discussion
Breakout Sessions
Participant Biographies
Visiting Student Delegations
Dedication