Mon.-Tues., September 27–28, 2010
Reserve Officers Association
One Constitution Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20045
On the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines have confronted third-party national combatants. Known as “foreign fighters,” these individuals have gained deadly skills and connections that can be exported or exploited to devastating effect in other locations. Over the past two decades, the foreign fighters phenomenon has grown after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 to the ethnically cleansed fields of the Balkans to Chechnya and beyond. But this is not a new problem. This conference builds upon the findings of the FPRI’s first foreign fighters conference from the summer of 2009 and brings together recognized academic and analytical expertise in order examine recent trends in the foreign fighter phenomenon and also explore the particular cases of Somalia, the Maghreb, Yemen, and Afghanistan/Pakistan.Attendance at the Program and Lunch is free for FPRI & ROA Members, and $50 for Non-Members
Reservations Required (no walk-ins). To attend in person, RSVP to lux@fpri.org (provide full contact information)
Free for FPRI and ROA Members, $50 for non-Members
This event will be webcast.
Reserve Officers Association
One Constitution Avenue NE
Washington, DC [display map]
Reservations Required (no walk-ins). To attend in person, RSVP to lux@fpri.org (provide full contact information)
Free for FPRI and ROA Members, $50 for non-Members
This event will be webcast.
Reserve Officers Association
One Constitution Avenue NE
Washington, DC [display map]
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Download Registration Form (1 pages, 122 KB )
Agenda: Day 1 - Monday, September 27
- 8:00 AM: Conference Registration
- 8:45 AM: Welcoming Remarks
- 8:55 AM: Video Message
- From Gen. William E. Ward, Commander, US Africa Command
- 9:00 AM: Keynote Address
- Speaker: Terrance Ford, Director of Intelligence and Knowledge Development, United States Africa Command
- 9:45 AM: Break
- 10:00 AM: Panel 1: Recent Trends in Foreign Fighter Source Countries and Transit Networks
- Panelists: Stephanie Kaplan, MIT; Marc Sageman, FPRI; Clinton Watts, Innovative Analytics and Training; Lorenzo Vidino, RAND Corporation
- Moderator: Michael Noonan, FPRI
- 12:00PM: Lunch
- 1:15 PM: Panel 2: Somalia Case Study
- Paper: AMB (ret.) David Shinn, George Washington University
- Panelists: Ted Dagne, Congressional Research Service; Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; Ken Menkhaus, Davidson College
- Moderator: Michael Noonan, FPRI
- 3:00 PM: Break
- 3:15 PM: Panel 3: Maghreb Case Study
- Paper: J. Peter Pham, National Committee on American Foreign Policy/James Madison University
- Panelists: Lianne Kennedy Boudali, RAND Corporation; John Entelis, Fordham University; Audra K. Grant, RAND Corporation
- Moderator: Samuel Helfont, FPRI/Princeton University
Agenda: Day 2 - Tuesday, September 28
- 8:00 AM: Conference Registration
- 8:45 AM: Panel 4: Yemen Case Study
- Paper: Christopher Boucek, Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace
- Panelists: Brian O’Neill, Waq al-Waq blog; Barak Salmoni, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Jeremy Sharp, Congressional Research Service
- Moderator: Tally Helfont, FPRI
- 10:30 AM: Break
- 10:45 AM: Panel 5: Afghanistan & Pakistan Case Study
- Paper: Brian Glyn Williams, Univ. of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
- Panelists: Sameer Lalwani, New America Foundation/MIT; Bruce Riedel, Brookings Institution; Stephen Tankel, Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace
- Moderator: Michael Horowitz, FPRI/University of Pennsylvania
- 12:30 PM: Concluding Remarks
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