Symposium

Welcome/Introductions

Claudio Grossman, Dean, Washington College of Law 

Paul R. Williams, Executive Director, PILPG

Mondi Basmenji, Editor-in-Chief, AU International Law Review

Opening Remarks

Rick Barton,Co-director, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project and Senior Adviser, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

The Partition Potential

Paul R. Williams, Executive Director, PILPG

Tony Blinken, Chief Foreign Policy Advisor, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE)

Daniel P. Serwer, Executive Director, Iraq Study Group, and Vice President, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations Centers of Innovation USIP

Laith Kubba, Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa National Endowment for Democracy

Carole O’Leary, American University School of International Service

Lunch Presention: A Private Screening of Meeting Resistance

"This daring, eye-opening film provides unique insight into the personal narratives of people involved in the resistance, exploding myth after myth about the war in Iraq and the Iraqis who participate." MeetingResistance.com

"If nothing else, "Meeting Resistance" should dispel any lingering misconception that the Iraq insurgency is mainly the work of outside agitators." New York Times

"A remarkable piece of war reporting." Washington Post

Q&A Session with Meeting Resistance Directors Steve Connors and Molly Bingham

Transitional Justice - War Crimes

Mike Newton, Vanderbilt University School of Law

Michael Scharf, Managing Director, PILPG, author of Saddam on Trial

David Crane, Syracuse University, Chief Prosecutor for the Special Court of Sierra Leone

Judge Ra’id Juhi al-Saedi, Former Chief Investigative Judge and Spokesman for the Iraq High Tribunal

Islamic Law and the Iraqi Constitution

Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow and Director of the Women and U.S. Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations

Neil Kritz, Associate Vice President, Rule of Law Program USIP

Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and author of Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics

Presentation: The Euphrates-Tigris as Strategic Water for Iraq: Short and Long Term Propsects

Rick Lorenz, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

Lunch Panel: Bluebooking in Baghdad: The Role of Foreign Lawyers in Iraq

Vanessa Jiménez, Senior Peace Fellow, PILPG

Darin Johnson, US Department of State, Office of the Legal Advisor

Abderrahim Sabir, Former UN Human Rights Officer in Iraq

Eric Blinderman, Proskauer Rose LLP

David Tafuri, Patton Boggs LLP

Lives in the Balance: Towards a Secure Solution for Iraq's Displaced

Adil Awadh, Senior Editor, Radio Sawa

Tim Irwin, Senior Public Information Officer, UNHCR

Kirk W. Johnson, Founder of The List: Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies

Roberta Cohen, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights

Michael Youash, Project Director, Iraq Sustainable Democracy Project

Keynote Discussion and Dinner: The Role of the International Community in the Rebuilding of Iraq

Tom Farer, Dean University of Denver Graduate School of International Service

Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie, Iraqi Ambassador to the U.S.

Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, Chilean Ambassador to the U.S.

Jamal Benomar, Director, Rule of Law Program, United Nations

Zainab Salbi, CEO, Women for Women International