Iraqi Recommendations to the Incoming Administration
Public Event
Date and Time
Friday, October 3, 2008
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location
U.S. Institute of Peace
2nd Floor Conference Room B
1200 17th St, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Directions
The next U.S. president will be the first to inherit a U.S. military presence in Iraq, and as such will have the opportunity to craft a fundamentally new strategy there. The incoming administration will receive a barrage of advice on Iraq policy and will be pressured by forces both at home and around the world to dramatically disengage from Iraq. But what are the views of Iraqis, and what recommendations can they make for a new direction?
Two back-to-back distinguished panels of Iraqi academics, diplomats, and civil servants will offer the incoming U.S. administration an Iraqi assessment of where Iraq is now and what issues, developments, and unfinished business the U.S. should take into consideration as it formulates its strategy towards Iraq. Their presentations will deal not only with the military component of U.S. strategy, but also with its political, diplomatic, economic, and institutional elements.
Speakers
Panel One: Institution-building in Iraq
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
- Qubad Talabani
U.S. Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government
- Nesreen Barwari
Former Minister of Municipalities and Public Works, Government of Iraq (2003–2006)
- Raid Juhi al-Saedi
Middle East Fellow, Cornell University School of Law, Clark Center for International and Comparative Legal Study
Former U.S. Insitute of Peace Jennings Randolph Fellow
- Rend al-Rahim, Moderator
Iraq Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace
Founder and Director of The Iraq Foundation
Panel Two: Political Progress
11:15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- Feisal Istrabadi
Visiting Professor, Indiana University School of Law
Former Deputy Permanent Representative of the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations (2004–2007)
- Ghassan Atiyeh
Visiting Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Karim Almusawi
U.S. Representative of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq
- Daniel Serwer, Moderator
Vice President, Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations, U.S. Institute of Peace
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