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Monday, November 9, 2009
 
 
EVENTS
Catastrophe in Chechnya
Escaping the Quagmire
The American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, Amnesty International USA, Freedom House, The Jamestown Foundation, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Time: 9:00 AM — 3:30 PM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
 
About This Event

As a result of the fighting in Chechnya, tens of thousands of Chechens and Russians have been killed. Human rights groups speak of war crimes, while Moscow characterizes its operations as the struggle against terrorism. The situation was supposed to improve after a recent Chechen referendum and elections. But has it? What are the facts and myths about Chechnya and how can permanent peace be established there? On the International Human Rights Day, please join the New Atlantic Initiative at the American Enterprise Institute and our partners, the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, Amnesty International USA, Freedom House, the Jamestown Foundation, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, for a conference that seeks a solution to the Chechen conflict.

 
Agenda

8:45 a.m.

Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 Welcome: Radek Sikorski, executive director, NAI

 

Introductory Remarks: Ruud Lubbers, United Nations high commissioner for refugees; former prime minister of the Netherlands

9:30

The Quagmire

 

Speakers:

David Ensor, national security correspondent, CNN

 

 

Khassan Baiev, Chechen surgeon, author of The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire

 

 

John Dunlop, senior fellow, Hoover Institution

 

 

Stephen Solarz, chairman, American Committee for Peace in Chechnya; former U.S. congressman

 

Moderator:

Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor, Washington Post
10:45 Break  

11:00

Chechnya and Terror: Facts and Myths

 

Speakers:

David Satter, senior fellow, Hudson Institute; author of Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
Andrew Meier, author of Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall
    Andrei Babitsky, journalist, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
    Rajan Menon, Monroe J. Rathbone professor, Lehigh University
  Moderator: Radek Sikorski, executive director, NAI
12:30 p.m. Luncheon
  Keynote Speaker: Zbigniew Brzezinski, counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies; former National Security advisor
2:00 Search for Peace
  Introductory Remarks: Jerry Fowler, staff director of the Committee on Conscience, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
  Speakers: Lord Frank Judd, former rapporteur on Chechnya for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
    Ilyas Akhmadov, foreign minister in the government of Aslan Maskhadov
    Aleksandr Lukashevich, senior counselor, Embassy of Russia
    Leon Aron, resident scholar, AEI
    Andrei A. Pointkovsky, director of the Center for Strategic Studies in Moscow
  Moderator: Danielle Pletka, vice president, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, AEI

3:30

Conference Adjournment

6:30

Reception held at the Freedom House Main Office Building

Speaker: Thomas Dine, president, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

8:30

Reception Adjournment

 
 
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