Conference Agenda

9:00 a.m.

Welcoming Remarks

Conference Director and Master of Ceremonies
Steven Clemons
Senior Fellow & Director, American Strategy Program
New America Foundation and Publisher, TheWashingtonNote.com

Reflections on 9/11/2001 and Thoughts on Reframing America’s “Next Phase” Response to the Terrorism Challenge

James Fallows
National Correspondent, Atlantic Monthly and Chairman of the Board, New America Foundation

Stephen B. Heintz
President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

9:15 a.m.

Provocations: What Americans “Should” See on a Road Map in Confronting Terrorism

The Hon. Jane Harman
Ranking Member, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence U.S. House of Representatives

George Soros
Chairman, Soros Fund Management and Chairman, Open Society Institute

The Hon. Mitchell Reiss
Former Director of Policy Planning, Department of State and Vice Provost, College of William & Mary

The Hon. James Steinberg
Vice President & Director, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution and Former Deputy National Security Advisor to the President

Rita E. Hauser
International attorney; Chair, International Peace Academy; and Member, Board of Directors, RAND Corporation

The Hon. Roger Cressey
Former Chief of Staff, President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board
Former Director, Transnational Threats, National Security Council; and President, Good Harbor Consulting LLC

moderator
Richard Medley
Chairman, Medley Global Advisors and Former Chief Economist, Committee on Banking, Finance & Urban Affairs U.S. House of Representatives

Optional -- Experts Working Group Meeting on Underlying Causes of Terrorism
Chairperson: Louise Richardson, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Massachusetts Room
(A limited number of conference attendees are welcome to join as “Observers” for this meeting. The session will conclude at 10:45 a.m. If you choose to attend, you are requested to remain in the room until the completion of discussion so as to not disrupt proceedings. First come, first serve.)

America's Purpose: Building a “New Consensus” in the Fight Against Terrorism

introduction
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

The Hon. Joseph Biden (D-DE)
Ranking Member, Committee on Foreign Relations U.S. Senate

The Grievance Challenge: Confronting the Political Dimensions of Terrorism

Robert Pape
Professor, University of Chicago and Author, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

Nir Rosen
Author “Letter from Falluja,” The New Yorker and Fellow, New America Foundation

Yosri Fouda
Senior Investigative Reporter and London Bureau Chief, Al-Jazeera; Interviewer of al Qaeda leaders Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh; and Co-author, Masterminds of Terror

Andrew Kohut
Director, Pew Research Center for People and the Press and Director, Pew Global Attitudes Project

Michael Lind
Whitehead Senior Fellow, New America Foundation and Author, The American Way of Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2006)

moderator
Robert Kuttner
Co-Founder and Co-Editor, The American Prospect

Optional -- Experts Working Group Meeting on Homeland Security
Chairperson: Suzanne Spaulding, Managing Director, The Harbour Group and Former Executive Director, National Commission on Terrorism
Ohio Room
(A limited number of conference attendees are welcome to join as “Observers” for this meeting. The session will conclude at 12:15 p.m. If you choose to attend, you are requested to remain in the room until the completion of discussion so as to not disrupt proceedings. First come, first serve.)

Luncheon & Remarks

Luncheon Master of Ceremonies & Introductions

The Hon. Dave McCurdy
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives and President, Electronic Industries Alliance

Pre-luncheon commentary

Balancing Trust & Fear in Public Policy Responses to Terrorism: A View from the Heartland

The Honorable Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Governor of Utah

Post-Luncheon Remarks

Reflecting on 9-11 and America’s Global Engagement Problem

General Wesley Clark
Former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO and former candidate for President of the United States

Short Question & Answer Session

2:00 p.m.

Beating Terrorism – or Fueling It? America’s Stakes in Getting its Terrorism Response Right

Tom Clancy
Author of more than 20 national-security themed best-selling novels and non-fiction books

Optional -- Experts Working Group Meeting on Confronting Terrorism
Chairperson: The Hon. Robert Hutchings, Diplomat-in-Residence, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University and
Former Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Massachusetts Room
(A limited number of conference attendees are welcome to join as “Observers” for this meeting. The session will conclude at 3:30 p.m. If you choose to attend, you are requested to remain in the room until the completion of discussion so as to not disrupt proceedings. First come, first serve.)

2:30 p.m.

Non-Democratic States as Allies in the Struggle Against Terrorism?

Dimitri K. Simes
President, The Nixon Center and Publisher, The National Interest

Anatol Lieven
Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation; Former Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Author, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism

Flynt Leverett
Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution and Former Senior Director, Middle East Initiative, National Security Council

Kenneth Roth
Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

Michael McFaul
Director, Center for Democracy, Development & the Rule of Law, Stanford University and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

moderator
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

Provocations: Thoughts on Reframing the Terrorism Challenge

Gerold Yonas
Principle Scientist & Vice President, Advanced Concepts Group Sandia National Weapons Laboratories and Former Chief Scientist and Deputy Director, Strategic Defense Initiative, Department of Defense

Henry Schuster
Senior Investigative Producer, CNN and on-line columnist, CNN.com’s Tracking Terror

Diego Hidalgo
President, FRIDE (Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior) and Publisher, Foreign Policy (Spanish edition)

Richard Vague
Co-Founder, First USA Bank; Chairman & CEO, Juniper Financial; and Chairman, AmericanRespect.com

Stephen M. Walt
Robert & Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University and Author, Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy

Juliette Kayyem
Lecturer in Public Policy, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and
Member, National Commission on Terrrorism (known as the “Bremer Commission”)

moderator
The Hon. Lawrence Korb
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress;
Senior Advisor, Center for Defense Information; and
Former Asst. Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration And Co-author (w/Robert Boorstin), Integrated Power: A National Security Strategy for the 21st Century

Optional -- Experts Working Group Meeting on Promoting Democracy
Chairperson: Michael McFaul, Director, Center for Democracy, Development & the Rule of Law, Stanford University
Ohio Room
(A limited number of conference attendees are welcome to join as “Observers” for this meeting. The session will conclude at 5:15 p.m. If you choose to attend, you are requested to remain in the room until the completion of discussion so as to not disrupt proceedings. First come, first serve.)

5:00p.m.

Norms Under Stress – Is there a Civil Liberties Trade-Off in Fighting Terrorism? And what of the Debate on Rendition, Interrogations, and Detentions?

Daniel W. Sutherland
Officer for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Department of Homeland Security

Anne-Marie Slaughter
Dean, Woodrow Wilson School for Public Policy Princeton University

Jonah Goldberg
Editor-at-Large, National Review Online and nationally syndicated columnist

Grover Norquist
President, Americans for Tax Reform and Member of the Board, American Conservative Union; and Member of the Board, National Rifle Association

Reuel Marc Gerecht
Resident Fellow, American Foreign Policy, American Enterprise Institute

Brigadier General James Cullen (U.S. Army, ret.)
Former Chief Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, U.S. Army and Co-Signatory, Retired Military Leaders Letter to the U.S. Senate on Combat Detentions

moderator
Michael Barone
Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report and Principal Co-Author, The Almanac of American Politics

Optional -- Experts Working Group Meeting on American Grand Strategy & the Struggle Against Terrorism
Chairperson: Charles Kupchan, Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University and Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Massachusetts Room
(A limited number of conference attendees are welcome to join as “Observers” for this meeting. The session will conclude at 6:30 p.m. If you choose to attend, you are requested to remain in the room until the completion of discussion so as to not disrupt proceedings. First come, first serve.)

6:15 p.m.

6:15 p.m.

Executive Session -- Private Meeting

Roundtable on Guiding Principles in Considering Security Challenges in America

The Hon. John Ashcroft
Former Attorney General of the United States and Principal, The Ashcroft Group

7:15 p.m.

Dinner & Remarks

Looking Forward: Honoring the Past and Building Resiliency in the Future

Jennifer Mincin
Executive Director Families of September 11 (FOS11)

Introduction of Senator Hagel
Rita E. Hauser
Chair, International Peace Academy; Board Member, RAND Corporation and President, The Hauser Foundation

America’s Purpose and the Global Struggle Against Terrorism

The Hon. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
U.S. Senator and Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Nightcap Sessions – Discussions in Break Out Rooms with Various Personalities

Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m.

Where We Are

Steven Clemons
Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation

9:05 a.m.

Thoughts on America’s Terrorism Challenge

The Hon. Jim Saxton (R-NJ)
Chairman, Sub-Committee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities House Armed Services Committee, U.S. House of Representatives

American Nightmares vs. Opportunities: The Dilemma of the Last Sovereign

The Hon. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Former National Security Advisor to the President and Trustee & Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies

American Interests & Global Interests: Security in an Insecure World

Francis Fukuyama
Academic Dean, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, USA (Ret)
Former Chief of Staff Department of State

G. John Ikenberry
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs Princeton University

The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell
Former Prime Minister of Canada and Secretary General, Club of Madrid

moderator
Martin Walker
Chief Editor, UPI and Former Washington Bureau Chief, The Guardian

America Engaged in the World and the War on Terror:
Principles Leaders Can Agree On: Release of Eminent Persons Group Statement on Terrorism

Introduction
Jamie Metzl
President and Board Co-Chairman, Partnership for a Secure America

Charles “Chip” Andreae
Co-Chairman, Partneship for a Secure America; President, Andreae & Associates; and Former Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Richard Lugar

Release of Eminent Persons Group Statement on America’s “Next Phase” Response to Terrorism

The Hon. Warren Rudman
Former U.S. Senator; Co-Chairman, U.S. Commission on National Security in the 21st Century; and Co-Chairman, Advisory Board, Partnership for a Secure America

The Hon. Lee Hamilton
President, Woodrow Wilson Center and Former Chairman, House International Relations Committee; and Co-Chairman, Advisory Board, Partnership for a Secure America

A Conversation: America’s Purposes and Challenges

The Hon. Madeleine K. Albright
64th Secretary of State and Principal, The Albright Group

interlocutor
Andrea Koppel
State Department Correspondent, CNN

11:45 a.m.

Report from Five Expert Working Groups:
New Thinking on Comprehensive Strategies to Confront Terrorism

Louise Richardson
Executive Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Experts Group Chair, Underlying Causes of Terrorism

The Hon. Robert Hutchings
Diplomat-in-Residence, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University and former Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Experts Group Chair, Confronting Terrorism

Charles Kupchan
Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University and Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Experts Group Chair, American Grand Strategy & Struggle Against Terrorism

Suzanne Spaulding
Managing Director, The Harbour Group
Experts Group Chair, Homeland Security

Michael McFaul
Director, Center for Democracy, Development & the Rule of Law, Stanford University
Experts Group Chair, Promoting Democracy

moderator
Theodore Piccone
Executive Director, Democracy Coalition Project and Coordinator,
Expert Working Groups for Terrorism, Security and America’s Purpose

Luncheon Program

Pre-Luncheon Commentary

The Human Connection to the Terrorism Policy Debate: Some Thoughts

Mary Fetchet
Founding Director, Voices of September 11th

Benchmarking America’s Response to Terrorism: Where We’ve Been...Where We Have to Go

The Hon. Juan Zarate
Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism

Short Question and Answer Period

2:00 p.m.

The Challenge of Balance: How Terrorism and the Response to it Can Undermine a Society

Marc Sagemen
Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Author, Understanding Terror Networks

Daniel Levy
Former Advisor, Office of the Prime Minister, Israel; Official Israeli Negotiator at Oslo and Taba Peace Talks; and Policy Director, Geneva Initiative

Galima Bukharbaeva
Former County Director/Uzbekistan, Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Juan Cole
Professor, University of Michigan and Publisher of the popular blog, Informed Comment at www.juancole.com

Karen Greenberg
Director, Center on Law & Security, NYU School of Law and
Editor, The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib

Ivan Eland
Director, Center on Peace & Liberty, Independent Institute and former Director of Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute

moderator
Kelli Arena
Correspondent, “America Bureau” (Justice, Homeland Security & National Security), CNN

3:15 p.m.

An Offshore Discussion of America’s Terrorism Debate

Julian Borger
Washington Bureau Chief, The Guardian

Yosri Fouda
Senior Investigative Reporter and London Bureau Chief, Al-Jazeera

Judit Járai
Washington Bureau Chief Hungarian Radio

Tsutomu Watanabe
Chief U.S. Political Correspondent, Asahi Shimbun

Michael Backfisch
Washington Bureau Chief, Handelsblatt

Nathan Guttman
Washington Bureau Chief, Jerusalem Post

Paulo Sotero
Washington Bureau Chief, O Estado de S. Paulo

moderator
Nikolas Gvosdev
Editor, The National Interest

* invited