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Welcoming Remarks
- Dr. Karin von Hippel, Senior Fellow and Co-Director, PCR Project, CSIS
- Dr. John J. Hamre, President and CEO, CSIS
- Mr. Thomas Pritzker, Chairman and CEO, Global Hyatt Corporation
Keynote address
- Ms. Irene Khan, Secretary General, Amnesty International
- Chair: Mr. Rick Barton, Senior Adviser and Co-Director, PCR Project, CSIS
Workshop 1: The Evolution of Terrorist Tactics
Horizon
- Dr. William McCants, Fellow, Combating Terrorism Center, United States Military Academy at West Point
- Ms. Nadia Oweidat, Research Associate, RAND Corporation
- Brig. General Mark Schissler, Deputy Director, The War on Terrorism, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate, Joint Staff, the Pentagon
- Moderator: Mr. Daniel Benjamin, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; former Director for Transnational Threats, National Security Council
Workshop 2: The Changing Media Landscape
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- Mr. Ammar Abdulhamid, President, Tharwa Foundation
- Mr. Anthony Barnett, Founder, openDemocracy
- Ms. Kathleen Ridolfo, Regional Analyst for Iraq, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Moderator: Mr. David Heyman, Director and Senior Fellow, Homeland Security Program, CSIS
Workshop 3: Community Responses
Hemisphere B
- Dr. Hany El Banna, OBE, President, Islamic Relief Worldwide
- Mr. Geoff Loane, Head of Regional Delegation of the United States and Canada, International Committee of the Red Cross
- Ms. Irshad Manji, Senior Fellow, European Foundation for Democracy
- Moderator: Dr. Steven Heydemann, Vice President, Grants and Fellows Program, United States Institute of Peace
Workshop 4: Countering the Enabling Environment
Horizon
- Mr. Oussama Safa, General Director, The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies
- Mr. Kanishk Tharoor, Managing Editor, Terrorism and Democracy, openDemocracy
- Ms. Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch
- Moderator: Ambassador Teresita C. Schaffer, Director for South Asia, CSIS
Workshop 5: State and International Legal Responses
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- Professor William Banks, Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University
- Professor Claude Bruderlein, Director, Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University
- Colonel William Lietzau, Commanding Officer, Henderson Hall, Judge Advocate, U.S. Marine Corps
- Moderator: Ms. Victoria Holt, Senior Associate, the Henry L. Stimson Center
Workshop 6: Arab and Western Media Perspectives
Hemisphere B
- Mr. Philip Bennett, Managing Editor, Washington Post
- Ms. Nadia Bilbassy-Charters, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Al Arabiya TV
- Mr. Salameh Nematt, Middle East analyst and journalist
- Moderator: Dr. Paul Salem, Director, Carnegie Middle East Center
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Keynote address
- Mr. Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute
- Chair: Dr. Sarah Mendelson, Director, Human Rights and Security Initiative, CSIS
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Opening Remarks
- Dr. Karin von Hippel, Senior Fellow and Co-Director, PCR Project, CSIS
- Mr. Reginald Brack, Chairman Emeritus, Time Inc.; CSIS Trustee
Integrated Response to Terrorist Violence
- Professor Louise Richardson, Executive Dean, Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study, Harvard University
- Mr. Ken Silverstein, Washington Editor, Harper’s Magazine
- Mr. John Zogby, President, Zogby International
- Moderator: Dr. Johanna Mendelson Forman, Senior Associate, CSIS
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Keynote address
- Sir David Veness, former head of counter-terrorism at Scotland Yard, UN Undersecretary for Safety and Security
- Chair: Ms. Christine Wormuth, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS
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Film screening and discussion with Mr. Ari Sandel, Academy Award-winning filmmaker
- West Bank Story (21 minutes), a musical comedy set in the fast-paced, fast-food world of competing falafel stands in the West Bank
- Chair: Dr. Jon Alterman, Director and Senior Fellow, Middle
East Program, CSIS
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Voices of the Victims
- Mr. Michael Gallagher, Ireland, 1998 Omagh bombing
- Mr. Ashraf al-Khaled, "The Groom of Jordan", 2005 Amman hotel bombings
- Mr. Sammy Nganga Ngatiri, Kenya, 1998 U.S. embassy bombings
- Mr. Azamat Sabanov, Russia, 2004 Beslan school siege
- Moderator: Mr. Jerry White, Executive Director, Landmine Survivors Network