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Strategies for the War on Terrorism: Taking Stock

April 7-8, 2005

R. David Thomas Center and
Geneen Auditorium ( Fuqua School of Business)
Duke University
Durham , North Carolina

Day 1 | Day 2

Sponsored by:

The Center on Law, Ethics and National Security,
and the Program in Public Law
Duke University School of Law

and co-sponsored by :

The Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy and
the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University , and
the Triangle Institute for Security Studies

Designated as a Centennial Regional Meeting of the
American Society
of International Law

ALL PANEL SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN
GENEEN AUDITORIUM IN THE FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS;
ALL MEALS WILL BE IN THE THOMAS CENTER

Thursday, April 7th

8:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast (Geneen Auditorium)

8:30 am

Opening Comments

 

Scott L. Silliman
Professor of the Practice of Law and Executive Director,
Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
Duke University

Christopher H. Schroeder
Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and
Professor of Public Policy Studies
Duke University

8:45 am

Panel I:

Defining and Understanding the Causes of Terrorism

 

Chair:

Elizabeth Kiss
Director, Kenan Institute for Ethics and
Associate Professor of the Practice
Political Science and Philosophy
Duke University

 

Speakers :

Charles Kurzman
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina

Mohammed M. Hafez
Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Missouri-Kansas City

Mamoun Fandy
President, Fandy Associates
Washington DC

Ebrahim Moosa
Associate Research Professor
Department of Religion
Duke University

10:45 am

Panel II:

Key Policy Challenges

 

Chair:

Gilbert W. Merkx
Vice Provost for International Affairs and Development and
Professor of the Practice of Sociology
Duke University

Speakers:

Michael Vickers
Director of Strategic Studies
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

Ambassador Thomas E. McNamara
Former Assistant Secretary of State for
Political-Military Affairs and former Ambassador to Colombia

Martha Crenshaw
Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought
Government Department
Wesleyan University

Bruce W. Jentleson

Director, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and
Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Duke University

12:45 pm

Luncheon (R. David Thomas Center )

 

Speaker:

James L. Pavitt
Principal, The Scowcroft Group and
Former Director of Operations,
Central Intelligence Agency

2:15 pm

Panel III:

Interrogating Terrorists: The Torture Debate

 

Chair:

Peter D. Feaver
Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science
And Public Policy
Duke University

 

Speakers :

John D. Hutson
Dean, Professor of Law and President
Franklin Pierce Law Center

John Smith
Deputy General Counsel for International Affairs
Department of Defense

Heather MacDonald
John M. Olin Fellow
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Marty Lederman, Esq
Washington DC

6:30 pm

Reception ( Duke Law School )

7:00 pm

Dinner (R. David Thomas Center )

Speaker:

The Honorable Nabil Fahmy
Ambassador of The Arab Republic of Egypt
To the United States

Friday, April 8th

7:45 am

Continental Breakfast (Geneen Auditorium)

8:30 am

Panel IV:

The President and International Law in the War on Terrorism

 

Chair:

Curtis A. Bradley
Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law

 

Speakers:

Derek Jinks
Associate Professor of Law
Arizona State University College of Law

Michael D. Ramsey
Professor of Law
University of San Diego School of Law

Ingrid Wuerth
Associate Professor of Law
University of Cincinnati College of Law

John C. Harrison
David Lurton Massee, Jr., Professor of Law and
Horace W. Goldsmith Research Professor
University of Virginia School of Law

10:15 am Keynote Address
Speaker: Honorable Jane Harman
United States House of Representatives (D-CA)

11:15 am

Panel V:

Military Commissions

 

Chair :

Professor Scott Silliman

 

Speakers :

Louis Fisher
Senior Specialist in Separation of Powers
Congressional Research Service
Library of Congress

John D. Altenburg, Jr.,
Major General, USA (ret)
Appointing Authority
Office of Military Commissions
Department of Defense

Toni Locy
Reporter
USA Today

David B. Rivkin, Jr.
Partner, Baker & Hosteller LLP
Washington DC

1:15 pm

Luncheon (R. David Thomas Center )

2:15 pm

Panel VI:

PATRIOT Act Issues

 

Chair:

Professor Christopher Schroeder

 

Speakers:

William C. Banks
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
Syracuse University College of Law

Mary Derosa
Senior Fellow
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Washington DC

Robert Chesney
Associate Professor of Law
Wake Forest University School of Law

Tim H. Edgar
National Security Policy Counsel
American Civil Liberties Union

4:00 pm

Adjourn

The sponsors gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support of Warren and Faye Wickersham and Duke University 's Vice Provost for International Affairs and Development which helped to make this conference possible.

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