With the drawdown of US combat troops from Afghanistan after July 2011 and the planned transition of security to Afghan command by the end of 2014, what are the key priorities for US policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
The White House annual policy review last December said that: ‘The core goal of the US strategy in the Afghanistan and Pakistan theatre remains to disrupt, dismantle, and eventually defeat al-Qaeda in the region and to prevent its return.’ This built upon US President Barack Obama’s West Point speech a year before in which he said: ‘Our security is at stake in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is the epicentre of violent extremism practiced by al-Qaeda.’
To achieve its goals, what form will US military and civilian engagement in Afghanistan take in the future? To what extent will the US support attempts at reconciliation between the Afghan government and the Taliban leadership?
Prof Vali Nasr is Senior Advisor to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the US State Department. He is Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. From 2003-07 he was Professor and Chair of Research, Department of National Security Affairs at the US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey and from 2007-09, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has authored six books on political Islam, including, most recently, Meccanomics: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What it will do for our World.
This event will be chaired by Adam Ward, Director of Studies, IISS.
This is a joint event between the IISS and The Cordoba Foundation
If you would like further information please contact Charlotte Laycock at events@iiss.org
The Cordoba Foundation will take part in a three day consulation meeting organised by Notre Dame University (USA) on the theme of Contending Modernities, which is a major multi-year, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary research initiative focused on generating new knowledge and greater understanding of the ways in which religious and secular forces interact for good and for ill in the modern world. By examining these interactions, the study hopes to identify ways for religious and non-religious people and institutions to work together in addressing the world’s most pressing problems.
Venue: Notre Dame Centre, London
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The Australian Islamic Mission (AIM) in Sydney will be hosting several community events which involves a series of talks / workshops by Anas Altikriti the CEO of The Cordoba Foundation
ORGANIZED BY: The East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre with The Centre for the Study of Religion, Conflict and Cooperation (London Metropolitan University).
A seminar examining recent policies and developments concerning British Muslims, the modalities of Muslim representation and the impact of policy decisions on extremism and securitisation, education, identity and Islamophobia. The seminar will also explore calling for a public discourse and policy approach towards British Muslims that is fair and just.
Featuring the release of Dr Shamim Miah’s new book, Muslims, Schooling and the Question of Self-Segregation.
Friday, 2nd October 2015 from 18:30 to 20:30 (BST)
The Seminar Room, London Muslim Centre, 46 Whitechapel Road, London, E11JQ
East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre invitation to:
An Audience with Arno Arr Michaelis IV – Former White Supremacist Leader
Arno Michaelis was a leader of a worldwide racist skinhead organisation, a reverend of a self-declared Racial Holy War, and lead singer of the hate-metal band Centurion, which sold 20,000 CDs by the mid-nineties and is still popular with racists today.
Thursday 5th November, 2015
6:30pm – London Muslim Centre, 46 Whitechapel Road, London E1
BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS, DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS AND NEW REALITIES
Thursday 7 June 2018
6pm-9pm
Central London
Speakers:
Dr Gillian Kennedy — Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London; author, From Independence to Revolution – Egypt’s Islamists and the Contest for Power.
Courtney Freer — Research Officer at the Kuwait Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science
Dr Azzam Tamimi — Author and commentator, his books include Power-Sharing Islam (1993), Islam & Secularism in the Middle East (2000), Rachid Ghannouchi: a Democrat within Islamism (2001) and Hamas: Unwritten Chapters (2006).
Dr Barbara Zollner — Lecturer in Middle East Politics at Birkbeck, University of London. Author, The Muslim Brotherhood: Hasan al-Hudaybi and Ideology (2007).
Dr Maha Azzam — Formerly with Chatham House, she leads the Egyptian Revolutionary Council and was an advisor on the British Academy for Humanities and Social Sciences’ MENA panel.
Dr Anas Altikriti — CEO, The Cordoba Foundation
Monica Marks — Visiting Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations.
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