| Catastrophe in Chechnya |
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| Escaping the Quagmire |
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| Cosponsored by The American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, Amnesty International USA, Freedom House, The Jamestown Foundation, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003
9:00 AM
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003
3:30 PM
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| Location: |
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Directions to AEI |
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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. |
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8:45 a.m. |
Registration and continental breakfast |
| 9:00 |
Welcome: |
Radek Sikorski, executive director, NAI |
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Introductory Remarks: |
Ruud Lubbers, United Nations high commissioner for refugees; former prime minister of the Netherlands |
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9:30 |
The Quagmire |
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Speakers: |
David Ensor, national security correspondent, CNN |
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Khassan Baiev, Chechen surgeon, author of The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire |
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John Dunlop, senior fellow, Hoover Institution |
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Stephen Solarz, chairman, American Committee for Peace in Chechnya; former U.S. congressman |
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Moderator: |
Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor, Washington Post |
| 10:45 |
Break |
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11:00 |
Chechnya and Terror: Facts and Myths |
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Speakers: |
David Satter, senior fellow, Hudson Institute; author of Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State |
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Andrew Meier, author of Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall |
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Andrei Babitsky, journalist, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
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Rajan Menon, Monroe J. Rathbone professor, Lehigh University |
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Moderator: |
Radek Sikorski, executive director, NAI |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Luncheon |
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Keynote Speaker: |
Zbigniew Brzezinski, counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies; former National Security advisor |
| 2:00 |
Search for Peace |
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Introductory Remarks: |
Jerry Fowler, staff director of the Committee on Conscience, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum |
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Speakers: |
Lord Frank Judd, former rapporteur on Chechnya for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe |
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Ilyas Akhmadov, foreign minister in the government of Aslan Maskhadov |
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Aleksandr Lukashevich, senior counselor, Embassy of Russia |
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Leon Aron, resident scholar, AEI |
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Andrei A. Pointkovsky, director of the Center for Strategic Studies in Moscow |
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Moderator: |
Danielle Pletka, vice president, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, AEI |
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3:30 |
Conference Adjournment |
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6:30 |
Reception held at the Freedom House Main Office Building |
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Speaker: |
Thomas Dine, president, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
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8:30 |
Reception Adjournment | |
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More Information
Anne Austin
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-4878
Fax: 202-862-7177
E-mail: aaustin@aei.org
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Media Inquiries
Veronique Rodman
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-4870
E-mail: VRodman@aei.org
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