EVENTS ARCHIVE
Organizational and Societal Resilience as a Cybersecurity Strategy
Non-Belfer Event
Seminar
Open to the Public - MIT
November 19, 2009
4:15 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Talk: Organizational and Societal Resilience as a Cybersecurity Strategy
Speaker: Prof. Chris Demchak, US Naval War College
Time: Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, 4:15 - 6 PM (refreshments at 4 PM)
Place: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva), MIT, Cambridge
Photo by Jennifer Keister
States Within States: The Social Contracts of Rebel Groups
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public - Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
November 19, 2009
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jennifer Keister, Research Fellow, International Security/Intrastate Conflict Programs
Related Project: International Security
How rebels relate to the domestic populations varies widely. Some rebel groups engage in theft, extortion, and kidnapping, while others set up state-like exchanges of security and other public goods for support. The speaker will argue this variations stems from how different rebel groups balance two challenges. Like states, rebels must balance 1) their political goals and efforts to extract concessions from their rivals, and 2) building and maintaining their own organization. Rebels must build and maintain legitimacy in the face of interactions with civilians, the incumbent regime, and international interests. This seminar uses the logic of social contracting to explain this variation and will suggest preliminary findings from field research in Mindanao.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.
Peace through Development: Local Institution Building in Rural Afghanistan
Non-Belfer Event
Seminar
Open to the Public - WCFIA - Bowie-Vernon Room K262
November 19, 2009
4:00-6:00 p.m.
- Speakers
- Christia, Fotini
Protest and Paranoia in Iran
Non-Belfer Event
Seminar
Open to the Public - WCFIA - Bowie-Vernon Room K262
November 19, 2009
5:00-6:00 p.m.
WCFIA/CMES
Middle East Seminar
Lenore G. Martin, Sara Roy, and Herbert C. Kelman, Co-chairs
Presents
HALEH ESFANDIARI
Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and author of My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran
On
Protest and Paranoia in Iran
Thursday, November 19, 2009
* 5:00-6:00 p.m. please note special start time
American Cities at a Crossroads
Non-Belfer Event
Forum Event
Open to the Public - John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
November 19, 2009
6:00-8:00 p.m.
A conversation with: Mayor Thomas Menino, Boston, MA; Mayor Greg Nickels, Seattle, WA; Mayor Michael Nutter, Philadelphia, PA
Cyber-Terrorism/Warfare - The Emergent Threat: Strategies for Survival
Non-Belfer Event
Session
Open to the Public - Not on the KSG Campus
November 19, 2009
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Location: Boston University Photonics Center, Room 206 8 St. Mary's Street Description: It seems that cyberspace is under constant attack.
As the world's infrastructure becomes increasingly grounded on the Internet for commerce and communication, the consequences of these attacks become more ominous. Worse still, the perpetrators are usually invisible and difficult to trace, be they individuals or state actors, and they often carry out their attacks remotely with a worldwide network of hijacked personal computers.
Corporations, nonprofits, governments, and others all have a stake in the self-maintaining organism that is the Internet with no one entity in overall control. So, how do we defend ourselves and our economy? And can we do so in a way that balances cyber security, privacy, civil liberties, and innovation?
Join us to find out what you should know about the safety and security of cyberspace.
Program will be followed by a light reception.
Register at https://secure-alumni.bu.edu/olc/pub/BUAR/events/event_order.cgi?tmpl=events&event=2237679
