8:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Welcoming Remarks

Steven Clemons

Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation and Publisher, www.TheWashingtonNote.com 

The Hon. Morton H. Halperin

Former Special Asst. to the President & Sr. Dir. for Democracy, National Security Council; Senior Vice President, Center for American Progress and Executive Director, Open Society Policy Center

9:05 am

Setting the Context:  Where are We in America’s Terrorism Story?

Seymour Hersh 

Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist, The New Yorker and  Author, Chain of Command:  The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

Peter Bergen

Fellow, New America Foundation;

Terrorism Analyst, CNN; and

Author, Holy War Inc.:  Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden

moderator

Dana Priest

Intelligence Correspondent, Washington Post

10:00 am

America’s Response to Terrorism: Does Global Economic Development and Individual Economic Empowerment Matter?

Michael Barone

Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report

(and key proponent of “Alaska Permanent Fund” for Iraq concept)

The Hon. Harriet Babbitt

Senior Vice President, Hunt Alternatives Fund

Director, Women Waging Peace; and

Former Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development

David Hale

Former Global Chief Economist, Zurich Financial Services Group

Chairman, Hale Advisors LLC and

Chairman of the Board, China Online

Sherle Schwenninger

Director, Global Middle Class Program, New America Foundation

Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute and Founding Editor, World Policy Journal

moderator

Paul Glastris

Editor-in-Chief, The Washington Monthly Special Assistant and Senior Speech Writer to the President

11:00 am

Strengthening States as a Stategy Against Terrorism: Improving Governance, Undermining Corruption, Promoting Growth and Fostering Alliances

The Hon. Lael Brainard

Vice President & Director, Global Economy & Development Center, Brookings Institution and Former Deputy National Economic Advisor and Special Assistant to the President for Intl. Economics

Johanna Mendelson Forman

Forman Director, Peace, Security & Human Rights Policy, United Nations Foundation

Former Sr. Fellow, Assn. of the U.S. Army’s Program on the Role of the Military in the 21st Century  

Jay Winik

Senior Scholar of History and Public Policy Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland; and Author,  April 1865:  The Month that Saved America  

The Hon. John Gardner

Former General Counsel, U.S. Agency for International Development;

Former Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush; and

Former Special Assistant to President George H.W. Bush

moderator

Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Editor, The National Interest

12:15 pm

A National Security Imperative for America:  Getting the Developing Nation Problem Fixed

introduction

Richard Vague

Chairman,  www.AmericanRespect.com ; co-founder and former Chairman/CEO, First USA Bank

Hernando de Soto

President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy and

Author, The Mystery of Capital:  Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

1:45 pm

Adjournment