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Michele Dunne and Amy Hawthorne on US Policy in Middle East (NPR)
Hariri Center Director Michele Dunne and Senior Fellow Amy Hawthorne reflect on US policy toward the Middle East and North Africa in the two years since President Barack Obama promised to make it a top priority to support democracy and human rights in the region.
J. Peter Pham Speaks on Sahel Politics and Security in The Hague
J. Peter Pham, director the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was one of four experts invited to address a high-level international conference on the crisis in the Sahel region convened today in The Hague.
Rudolph Atallah Testifies before House Panel on Crisis in the Sahel
Rudolph Atallah, senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, testified at a House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on “The Growing Crisis in Africa’s Sahel Region.”
Mihaela Carstei on the US-Canada Keystone Pipeline Project (CTV)
On the heels of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit to the United States, Energy & Environment Program Associate Director Mihaela Carstei joins CTV to discuss the Keystone Pipeline project that would transport tar sands oil from Canada and the northern United States to refineries in the Gulf coast of Texas.
J. Peter Pham Speaks at Marshall Center on Nigeria’s Boko Haram
September 10, 2012
J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, addressed a conference on violent extremism at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies on Friday. Pham spoke on “The Nigerian Boko Haram Movement: Islamism and Ideological Trends” to participants in the senior executive seminar on “Beyond Al Qaeda: How to Understand and Counter Violent Extremism.” Other speakers at the conference included Admiral James Stavridis, supreme allied commander Europe and commander of the US European Command; Jean-Louis Bruguière, formerly chief investigating magistrate for counterterrorism; and former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Ali Soufan, who led the investigations into the East African embassy bombings and the attack on the USS Cole.
The senior seminar, directed by retired French Major General Philippe Sommaire, drew 98 military and civilian participants, including 36 of the flag or general officer rank, from 61 countries, including 13 African nations.
The Marshall Center is a unique German-American defense and security studies institute located at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps. Since its dedication in 1993, its mission has been to create a more stable security environment by advancing democratic institutions and relationships, especially in the field of defense; promoting active, peaceful security cooperation; and enhancing enduring partnerships among the nations of Europe, Eurasia, and North America.
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