Events

Conference Details: Date: April 18th, 2024 Location: On-line or in-person at The Fletcher School   The Fletcher School, in collaboration with the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, presents the 2024 Fares Center International Conference. Join us April 18-19th, 2024, at The Fletcher School in Boston, Massachusetts. This year’s conference theme is “The US in […]

Progressives are often critical of US foreign policy and the national security state – but why? What would a statecraft that pulls ideas from the American left look like? Grand Strategies of the Left, the latest book by Dr. Van Jackson, Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for International Policy, brings the progressive worldview into conversation with security studies […]

LIVESTREAM HERE March 26, 2024 3:00 PM ET REGISTER On April 3, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will begin his third term as president of Egypt following a rushed presidential election marred by a campaign of arrests, ongoing repression, and the elimination of any meaningful competition. During his first ten years as president, el-Sisi ruled through brutal authoritarian trial-and-error […]

Armed conflict has a pronounced impact on women and girls, significantly constraining their access to education, healthcare, and economic empowerment, and even survival. In this panel, we will emphasize the adverse consequences of armed conflict on the lives of women and girls, highlighting the multifaceted ways in which their rights are further curtailed and their […]

This International Women’s Day, Ploughshares Fund’s Equity Rises turns its full attention towards women who are challenging the prevailing view that threats, force, and war are necessary and indispensable to resolving global conflicts. We will highlight the triumphs, resilience, progress and defeats of women who think critically and empathetically about politics and cultures shaped by years of occupation, crisis and siege.

Thu., Feb. 29, 2024 | 4:30pm – 6:00pm Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs A conversation between Middle East Initiative’s Faculty Chair Professor Tarek Masoud and former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders Matt Duss. This event is part of the Middle East Initiative’s “Middle East Dialogues,” a series of frank, open, and probing […]

As Israel’s war in Gaza approaches its fifth month, fears of regional escalation are mounting as multiple nations target each other’s territories in a series of escalatory strikes. Israeli forces have clashed with Hezbollah along the Israel-Lebanon border since the start of the war, and have continued to strike targets in Syria as well. These […]

On February 1, the Biden administration notified Congress of intent to sell to India 31 Armed MQ-9B Reaper Drones with accompanying munitions (Hellfire missiles, bombs), hardware and software tech, and personnel for training and maintenance. The proposed sale raises serious questions about the government of India’s possible use of these weapons in violation of human […]

This in-person symposium will bring together renowned speakers, experts, policymakers, and activists to discuss the increasingly vital and influential role of progressive approaches to foreign policy in the US and globally.

The Security Assistance Monitor is partnering with the Forum on the Arms Trade, the Arms Control Association, the Center for Civilians in Conflict, Democracy for the Arab World Now, and the Stimson Center to promote a more responsible arms trade. April 12: Alternative approaches to arms in challenging security dilemmas Nancy Okail, President and CEO, […]

The major challenges facing Americans today – racial and gender injustice, economic inequality, pandemic disease, climate change – cannot be solved without international solidarity and human compassion.  Endless wars and endless Pentagon spending only exacerbate these problems, making people at home and abroad less safe.  Without addressing the racism and militarism at the core of […]

Please join the Forum on the Arms Trade and Security Assistance Monitor for a conversation examining lessons learned from security assistance in Afghanistan and the potential consequences of weapons lost there, as well as  insights that should be applied to existing security assistance efforts in the Middle East and elsewhere, especially those riddled by corruption. […]

Please join the Center for International Policy at Landmark’s E Street Cinema for a screening of the based-on-a-true-story film Official Secrets which features a character based on CIP’s Senior Fellow Melvin Goodman. We will have a brief panel discussion following the conclusion of the film. Our panelists will be Melvin Goodman of the Center for International Policy […]

Sponsored by FLVCS WHO: Mel Goodman, who is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington D.C. and an adjunct professor of International relations at Johns Hopkins University. He served as a senior analyst and division chief at the CIA from 1966 to 1990. An expert on U.S. relations with Russia, his […]

Please join the Center for International Policy and the Richardson Institute at Lancaster University for a panel discussion on “The Saudi-Iranian Contest— Rethinking US Policy” at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). WHEN: Wednesday October 30 at 2:00 p.m. WHERE: Simon Conference Room (B 241), United States Institute of Peace (USIP), 2301 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, […]