EVENTS ARCHIVE
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Bankruptcy, Guns, or Campaigns: Explaining Armed Organizations' Post-War Trajectories
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
October 1, 2009
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Sarah Zukerman Daly, Research Fellow, International Security/Intrastate Conflict Programs
Related Project: International Security
What happens to armed organizations after they sign peace accords? Why do they dissolve, return to war, or form non-violent political parties? This seminar addresses and seeks to explain this empirical variation in former armed groups' trajectories, using extensive micro-level data on the Colombian paramilitaries.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
The Practice of Arms Control and Nonproliferation
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
October 5, 2009
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Speaker: James Timbie
Related Project: Managing the Atom
James Timbie, Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, will present a Nuclear Nonproliferation Practitioners Seminar on Monday, October 5, 2009 at 10:30am in the Belfer Center Library.
Religion, Rationality, and Violence
Seminar
RSVP required - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
October 5, 2009
12:00-1:30 p.m. - Religion and Politics seminar
Related Project: Religion in International Affairs
Speaker: Monica Duffy Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Historical Legal Developments in Afghanistan's Formal System of Law and the Impact on the Perception of Justice in Afghanistan Today
Non-Belfer Event
Lecture
Open to the Public - Nye B, Fifth Floor Taubman Building
October 5, 2009
4:00-6:00 p.m.
A Public Presentation by:
Abdul Rasheed Rashid
Justice Supreme Court of Afghanistan
President of the High Court of the Military
President, Court of Internal and External Security
Nye 'B', Taubman Building, 5th floor
Harvard Kennedy School
Does Proliferation Beget Proliferation? Assessing "Reactive Proliferation"
Non-Belfer Event
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
October 6, 2009
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Philipp C. Bleek
Related Projects: Managing the Atom, International Security, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
MTA/ISP Research Fellow Philipp Bleek will present a seminar entitled "Does Proliferation Beget Proliferation? Assessing 'Reactive Proliferation,'" on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, in the Belfer Center library at 9:30am.
A Way Forward on Israeli Palestinian Peace Talks
Director's Seminar
RSVP required - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
October 6, 2009
2:30-3:30 p.m.
POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/makovsky.html
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Directors' Seminar with David Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process
As space is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.
Belfer Center Director's Seminars are strictly off-the-record. By indicating your desire to attend the seminar, you agree that you will comply with the Belfer Center's strict policy against recording or disclosing the contents of the seminar. Your access is conditioned on your compliance with these restrictions. Should you violate these rules, the Center will pursue all available legal options and you will be excluded from all future events.
Large Scale Land Warfare and the US Army
Seminar
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
October 6, 2009
4:10-5:30 p.m.
Harvard Kennedy School Armed Forces Club, the National Security Program, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs are co-sponsors of a study group for American military affairs. Each session will be led by experienced military officers from the degree programs as well as the National Security Fellows.
For further information ewan.macdougall@gmail.com or 949-547-5123
India’s foreign policy in an evolving Asian balance of power
Seminar
Open to the Public - Goodman Classroom (Littauer 140)
October 6, 2009
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Moderator: Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Shivshankar Menon, Former Foreign Secretary of India
Related Project: The Future of Diplomacy Project
R. Nicholas Burns, Moderator, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Belfer Center
Shivshankar Menon, Former Foreign Secretary of India
A Public Address by: Terry McAuliffe, Chairman of the DNC (2001-2005)
Non-Belfer Event
Forum Event
Open to the Public - John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
October 6, 2009
6:00-8:00 p.m.
FORUM--A Public Address by: Terry McAuliffe, Chairman of the DNC (2001-2005)
Event Speakers: TERRY McAULIFFE Institute of Politics Visiting Fellow; Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (2001-2005); National Chairman of the Hillary Clinton for President Campaign
Neo-Conservatism vs. Realism: Applying Grand Theories to the Middle East
Non-Belfer Event
Seminar
Open to the Public - MIT
October 7, 2009
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Neo-Conservatism vs. Realism: Applying Grand Theories to the Middle East David Makovsky The Washington Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E40-4th Floor conference room ( Lucian Pye room)
1 Amherst Street, Cambridge
Light refreshments will be provided



