In 2009 (continued…)

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  Speaker Events 08-03-2009

  Columnist Roger Cohen Gives Gripping Account of Protests in Iran

  Roger Cohen, New York Times op-ed columnist, was one of the last international correspondents to leave Iran after spending days with Iranians who swarmed the avenues and alleys of Tehran in June to demonstrate against the outcome of the election that the government contended — to much public derision — was won by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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  Panel Discussions 07-28-2009

  IPI Holds Policy Forum on Regulating Private Security Companies

  Private military and security companies (PMSCs) play an increasingly visible role in conflict and postconflict situations. Properly regulated, they may offer efficient and responsive means of delivering security in insecure environments. But well-publicized abuses suggest that an adequate regulatory framework is urgently needed.On Tuesday, July 28, 2009, IPI hosted a lunchtime policy forum to highlight […]

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  Speaker Events 07-25-2009

  France’s Brice Lalonde: Countering Climate Change Needs Joint Action and Vision of Future

  Brice Lalonde, Special Ambassador of France for the Climate Change Negotiation, discussed at IPI the current state of play in climate change talks in the lead-up to the UN conference on the subject in Copenhagen in December.At the time of his talk, on June 25, 2009, Lalonde had just returned from a meeting of the […]

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  07-15-2009

  Caitlin Reiger on Prosecuting Heads of State and Government For Human Rights and Financial Crimes

  Caitlin Reiger, deputy director of the Prosecutions Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice and co-editor of the new book Prosecuting Heads of State, says there have been 67 successful such cases, with some of those convicted spending time in prison as a result.“I think what the book really tries to do is to […]

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  Speaker Events 07-08-2009

  Richard N. Haass: When Should the US Go to War?

  Richard N. Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the book War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars, outlined at an IPI evening reception when and how the US should or should not go to war and when it might be a necessity. Haass, a senior […]

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