May 14, 2019

"The Role of Diplomacy in the World's Future"

THE INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR TERRORISM STUDIES

A Special Ambassador’s Forum:

“The Role of Diplomacy in the World’s Future”

In the face of expanding national, regional, and global challenges such as climate change, natural disasters, outbreaks of endemic diseases, migration, terrorism, insurgencies, and wars, is diplomacy’s role shifting from its traditional statecraft to broader missions? A panel of distinguished U.S. and foreign diplomats will share their experiences and offer recommendations for future security concerns.

Professor Don Wallace

Chairman, International Law Institute

Professor Yonah Alexander

Director, Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies, and Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for

Policy Studies

Ambassador (Ret.) Charles Ray, Formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for

POW/Missing Personnel Affairs and U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia and Zimbabwe (previously,

he served in the U.S. Army for twenty years)

Ambassador (Ret.) Ronald Neumann, Formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary and U.S.

Ambassador to Algeria, Bahrain, and Afghanistan, and currently President, the American

Academy of Diplomacy           

Ambassador (Ret.) Lino Gutierrez, Former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina and Nicaragua as

well as Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs 

Ambassador Rosemary Banks, New Zealand Ambassador to the United States

Dr. Mir Sadat, Director of Defense Policy and Strategy, U.S. National Security Council

General (Ret.) Alfred Gray, Twenty-Ninth Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps; Senior

Fellow and Chairman of the Board of Regents, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies