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Saturday, February 28

War on Terror: The Endless Offensive?

War on Terror panel

Jack Blum, Partner, Lobel, Novins & Lamont, Washington, DC law firm; former Investigative Attorney, U.S. Senate where he was involved in a number of well known investigations, including BCCI, General Noriega's drug trafficking, and Lockheed Aircraft's overseas bribes; former Consultant, United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations; former Consultant, United Nations Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention; some of his recent presentations and testimony include: "Controlling Corruption: The International Dimension" and "The Rule of Law and the Control of International Organized Crime;" Served as chair of the experts group on international asset recovery which was convened by the United Nations Cantre for Drug Control and Crime Prevention; author of Covert Operations: The Blowback Problem

John Cooley, Former Correspondent, ABC News; Recipient, George Polk Memorial Award for "distinguished career achievement in international reporting"; Author, Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism; Payback: America's Long War in the Middle East; and Libyan Sandstorm: Qaddafi's Revolution

Stanley Heginbotham, Former Chief of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division and Senior Specialist in American Foreign Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; former Deputy Director, International Affairs Program, Ford Foundation; former Vice President, Social Science Research Council; Senior Consultant, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans; Author, "Conversation with a Patriot: What To Do about Iraq?"

Gwyn Prins, Coauthor, Understanding Unilateralism in American Foreign Relations ; author, The Heart of War: On Power, Conflict and Obligation in the 21st Century ; former Senior Fellow, Office of the Special Adviser on Central and Eastern European Affairs, office of the Secretary General, NATO; Alliance Research Professor, European Institute, London School of Economics and Columbia University

Jonathan Schell, Harold Willens Peace Fellow, The Nation Institute; Fellow, Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University; Author, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People ; his reflective work on the nuclear question, The Fate of the Earth , was hailed by The New York Times as "an event of profound historical moment"

Steven Van Evera, Professor of Political Science, MIT; Author, Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict , "Strategy for the Terror War", "Ideas Have Consequences: American Beliefs on the Causes of War", and "Why They Fight: Hypotheses on the Causes of Contemporary Deadly Conflict"; former Managing Editor, International Security

Moderators: Elizabeth Haddad and Lisa Senecal, EPIIC Colloquium