2007 Summer Symposioum

The 18th Annual WIIS Summer Symposium
for Graduate Students in International Affairs
Exploring Diverse Challenges to Global Peace and Security

From June 7 to 12, 2007, WIIS held its 18th annual Summer Symposium for Graduate Students in International Affairs at Georgetown University. The theme of this year’s Symposium was Exploring Diverse Challenges to Global Peace and Security. The Symposium attracted outstanding graduate students from around the world who participated in a six-day program of panel discussions, professional development workshops, a crisis simulation, and student research presentations.

Keynote Luncheon:

Topic: "The Development of Peacebuilding - Ensuring the Participation of Women"

Speaker: Carolyn MacAskie, Assistant Secretary General for Peacebuilding, United Nations

Date: Monday, June 11, 2007
Location: Embassy of Canada/Ambassade du Canada in Washington, DC
Introduction by Kevin O'Shea, Minister of Political Affairs, Embassy of Canada

Symposium Speakers:

• Pamela Aall, President of WIIS and Vice President for Education at the U.S. Institute for Peace
• Kimberly Abbott, U.S. media relations, International Crisis Group
• Khapta Akhmedova, Professor of Psychology, Chechen State University and head of Mental Health Center for Peace-building
• Nancy Bearg, Senior Advisor at Search for Common Ground (2007 Summer Symposium Co-Chair)
• Nora Bensahel, Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation
• Betty Bigombe, Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program, U.S. Institute for Peace
• Avis T. Bohlen, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control and Former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria
• Daniel Byman, Director of Georgetown University's Security Studies Program and the Center for Peace and Security Studies
• Allison Chamberlain, Analyst at the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC
• Kimberly Cowell-Meyers, Assistant Professor of Government, American University
• R. Kim Cragin, Associate International Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation
• Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, Vice President of WIIS; Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; and Adjunct Professor at the Edmuch A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
• Joan Dudik-Gayoso, Independent Advisor on International Cooperation and Development
• Robert Gallucci, Dean of the Edmuch A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
• Carla Grantham, Director of Recruitment and Corporate Communication for Analytic Services, Inc.
• Melanie Greenberg, President and co-founder of the Cypress Fund
• Gigi Kwik Gronwall, Senior Associate at the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh
• Mary Habeck, Associate Professor of Strategic Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
• Kristin Haffert, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
• Laurie C. Hoes, Independent Management Consultant
• Eileen Isola, Program Manager and Senior Analyst for SAIC, Inc.
• Catherine McArdle Kelleher, College Park Professor at the University of Maryland
• Carol Kessler, Director of the Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Sarah McCue, Founder of Women with 2020 Vision and co-founder of The Remembering Site; President of Peace x Peace
• Eileen A. Malloy, Senior Inspector, Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. State Department
• Susan Collin Marks, Senior Vice President, Search for Common Ground
• Dalia Mogahed, Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies at the Gallup Organization
• Jacqueline O'Neill, Initiative for Inclusive Security
• Maria Snyder, Grants Administrator for the Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University
• Alisa Stack-O'Connor, Principal Deputy, Support to Public Diplomacy, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
• Linda Staheli, Senior Staff Associate, Civilian Research and Development Foundation (2007 Summer Symposium Co-Chair)
• Anne Witkowsky, Senior Fellow, CSIS Homeland Security Program
• Patricia Stein Wrightson, Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security

Themes of Past Symposia:

• 1990 Future Directions in International Security
• 1991 International Security after the Cold War
• 1992 Transitions in International Security
• 1993 Responding to Conflict: A Challenge for International Security
• 1994 Responses to Conflict amid the New World Disorder
• 1995 The Search for Sustainable Security
• 1996 Security Policy at the Crossroads
• 1997 Toward the Next Century: The Challenge for International Security
• 1998 Diffusion of Power: Non-State Actors and International Security
• 1999 The Changing Nature of Power in the 21st Century
• 2000 Broadening Global Security: Challenges for Sustainable Development
• 2001 The 21st Century State and Security Challenges
• 2002 A New Global Security Agenda?
• 2003 The Changing Nature of Peace and War
• 2004 Globalization and Security
• 2005 International Security Challenges: Forging Global Responses
• 2006 Security and Identity in a Globalized World