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Crisis in the Middle East, What Solutions?

8 July 2016

Crisis in the Middle East, What Solutions?

Speakers:

  • Alejo Vidal Quadras, President of In Search of Justice ISJ, former Vice President of the European Parliament
  • Frédéric Encel, Scholar of geopolitics, teaches international relations at the ESG Management School
  • Philip Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State from 2009 to 2011 and former senior director of public affairs for the United States National Security Council and Special Assistant to the President for national security affairs
  • Marc Ginsberg, US ambassador to Morocco from 1994–1998 and former Deputy Senior Adviser to the President of the United States for Middle East Policy
  • Lincoln Bloomfield, Chairman of the Board of the Henry L. Stimson Center, a non-partisan security think tank in Washington, D.C. and served as the assistant secretary of state for political military affairs
  • Mitchell Reiss, President and CEO of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia, former director of policy planning at the U.S. Department of State with special emphasis on Iraq, Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
  • Robert Joseph, United States Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation and the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security until 2007
  • Frances Townsend, former Homeland Security Advisor to United States President and TV personality.
  • Kenneth Blackwell, Former Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission
  • Linda Chavez, Founder and Chairwoman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, author, commentator, and radio talk show host and a Fox News political analyst and has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide
  • Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont from 1991-2003, CNBC TV Contributor, Founder of Democracy for America, former Chairman of Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009
  • Struan Stevenson, President of the European Iraqi Freedom Association, former President of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq

Justice for Political Prisoners

1 February 2018

Justice for Political Prisoners

Speakers:

  • Kirsty Brimelow QC, Chair of the Human Rights Committee of the Bar of England and Wales
  • Prof Jean Ziegler, vice president of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council,
  • Dr Juan Garcés, Chief Lawyer in the Spanish case against General Pinochet
  • Tahar Boumedra, a former UN official on human rights
  • Eric Sottas, former Secretary-General of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)
  • Geoffrey Robertson QC, head of Doughty Street Chambers in the UK and former appeal judge at the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone
  • Prof Eric David, Professor emeritus of international law at the Université libre de Bruxelles
  • Number of former political prisoners

Prospects for Change

29 June 2018

Prospects for Change

Speakers:

  • Adam Ereli, Ambassador, former spokesperson of the U.S. Department of State and Ambassador to Bahrain
  • Paulo Casaca, Executive Director of the “South Asia Democratic Forum” based in Brussels, former member of European Parliament
  • Walid Phares, Expert, global terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs
  • Charles Wald, General (Ret.), former Deputy Commander of U.S. European Command
  • James Conway, General (Ret.), former Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
  • Yves Thréard, Editorialist in Le Figaro, French daily
  • Bruno Tertrais, Deputy Director of the French Fondation for Strategic Research (FRS)
  • Michael Pregent, Middle East analyst, Hudson Institute
  • Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier, membre of the Institute Thomas More and researcher at the l’Institut Français de Géopolitique (Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis)
  • Mitchell Reiss, Ambassador, former Director of U.S. State Department Policy Planning and Special Envoy to the Northern Ireland Peace Process
  • Sid Ahmed Ghozali, former Prime Minister of Algeria
  • John Baird, former Foreign Minister of Canada
  • Michael Mukasey, former U.S. Attorney General
  • Louis Freeh, former Director of the FBI
  • Yves Bonnet, former Governor and Head of France’s Internal Security Service (D.S.T.)




Human Achievements and Capabilities in a Free World

11 July 2019

Human Achievements and Capabilities in a Free World

Speakers:

  • Ambassador Robert Joseph, United States Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation and the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security until 2007
  • John Baird, former Foreign Minister of Canada
  • Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
  • General James Conway, former Commandant of the U.S. Marines Corps
  • Prof. Ivan Sascha Sheehan from the University of Baltimore
  • Senator Robert Torricelli



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