Navigating the Strategic Dark: Framing the Security Environment for the Next Decade
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Friday, Nov.14 2014 - Saturday, Nov.15 2014 |
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8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (both days) |
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Faculty Club, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Get Directions |
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Launch Conference for the Institute for 21st Century Questions (21CQ)
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in Celebration of the 5th Anniversary of Global Brief Magazine
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Day 1 – November 14, 2014
8am to 9am – Registration
9am – Aboriginal Prayer
9.10am – Opening Remarks & Welcome – Irvin Studin, President, Institute for 21st Century Questions, Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, Global Brief Magazine
9.20am to 10.45am – Opening Panel: “Resolution: There is no Global Strategic Narrative for the Next Decade. All Narratives are Local.”
- Hubert Védrine, former foreign minister of France
- John E. McLaughlin, former CIA director
- Yoram Schweitzer, senior researcher and program director, National Institute for Security Studies, Tel Aviv
10.45am to 11am – Coffee Break
11am to 12.15pm – “Resolution: The Ukraine-Russia Crisis is Solvable. Or Not.”
- Vyacheslav Tolkovanov, former Ukrainian Civil Service Head and Professor, Higher School of Public Administration, Kiev
- Leonid Kosals, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
12.15pm to 1.15pm – Lunch & Conference Photograph
1.15pm to 2.30pm – “Resolution: The Near Future for the Middle East is Bleak. Can the Long Run Be Fixed?”
- Lerna E. Yanik, Professor, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
- Katerina Dalacoura, Professor, London School of Economics
- Miloud Chennoufi, Professor, Canadian Forces College
2.30pm to 3pm – Coffee Break
3pm to 4.15pm – “Accountability and Why Africa Will Rise This Century”
- Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Republic of the Gambia
- Adama Dieng, UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide
- Introductory Remarks: Donald M. Ferencz, Convenor, Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression
- Moderator: Craig Scott, Member of Parliament (Toronto – Danforth) and former Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
4.15 to 5pm – Drinks Reception
Day 2 – November 15, 2014
9am to 9.15am – Welcome Remarks from Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Vice-President & Co-Founder, 21CQ, Managing Editor, Global Brief Magazine
9.15am to 10.30am – “Resolution: North America Will See War This Century.”
- Jeremi Suri, Professor, University of Texas – Austin
- Michael Morgan, Professor, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
- Jon Finer, Deputy Chief of Staff, United State Secretary of State
10.30am to 10.45am – Coffee Break
10.45 to noon – “Resolution: China Is Rising, But Not All of Asia Will Rise With It.”
- David Skilling, Director, Landfalls Strategy Group, Singapore (and Former Senior Adviser, New Zealand Treasury)
- Arabinda Acharya, Professor, National Defense University – Fort Bragg
- Sorpong Peou, Professor and Political Science Department Chair, Ryerson University
Noon to 1pm – Lunch
1pm to 2.15pm – “Resolution: Europe Remains a Peace Project – Nothing More, Nothing Less – for the Foreseeable Future.”
- Michael Matthiessen, Principal Advisor, European External Action Service, Brussels
- Michael Barutciski, Professor and Program Director, Glendon School of Public and International Affairs, York University
2.30pm to 3.45pm – “Resolution: Latin America is Not the World’s Least Strategic Region This Decade.”
- Patricio Navia, Professor, Diego Portales University, Santiago
- Simon Bohn, Professor, York University
- Alejandro Magos, Global Brief magazine and University of Toronto
- Victor Armony, Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
- Moderator: Pierre Pettigrew, former foreign minister of Canada
3.45pm to 4pm – Epigram
- George Elliott Clarke, Poet Laureate, Toronto and Professor, University of Toronto
4pm to 5pm – Celebratory Drinks
FINIS
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