The Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University presents the The Robert and Joann Bendetson Global Public Diplomacy Initiative, "Iraq: Moving Forward."

The Future of Iraq, Panel Discussion, Cohen Auditorium , Tufts University

Introductions

• Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
• Robert Bendetson, Chairman, External Advisory Board, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University

Invocation

• Ahmad Iravani, Director of Islamic Studies and Dialogue at Catholic University's Center for the Study of Cultures and Values

Panelists

• Haider Al Abadi, Member, Iraqi Council of Representatives; Chaiman, Economy,     Investment and Reconstruction Committee, Council of Representatives, Former Minister of Communications, Iraqi Government; a Leader, Al-Dawa Party
• Ali Allawi, Former Minister of Defense and Minister of Trade, Interim Iraq    Government Council; Former Minister of Finance, Iraqi Transitional Government; Author, The Occupation of Iraq Winning the War, Losing the Peace
• Barbara Bodine, Former US Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen; Former Deputy Chief of US Mission, Kuwait; Former Coordinator for Counterterrorism, US Department of State; Former Deputy Principal Officer, US Embassy, Baghdad
• Peter Galbraith, Author, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End; Former Staff Member, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he documented Iraqi atrocities against the Kurds
• Feisal Amin al-Istrabadi, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Iraq; Former Deputy to the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament
• Tony Smith*, Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science,Tufts University;    Author, Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of US Foreign Policy; Faculty Advisory Committee, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
• Lt. Col. Isaiah (Ike) Wilson III, US Army, Academy Professor and the Director of    American Politics, Public Policy and Strategic Studies, United States Military Academy; Chief of Plans, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Mosul, Iraq
  

•  John Shattuck, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US Department of State; Member, External Advisory Board, Institute for  Global Leadership, Tufts University