Events
Overview
The Future Security Initiative organizes 35-50 public events each year. These are held online and in person and hosted at both ASU and New America, representing a key element of our unique partnership. FSI events include lectures and conversations in our Fall and Spring Speaker Series run out of ASU, multiple events organized out of New America, as well as presentations linked to our MA in Global Security, Center on Intelligence and National Security, and Center for Agriculture and National Security. FSI public programs focus on a wide variety of topics including international human rights, cybersecurity, conflict reporting, democracy, strategy, international crises, and discussions of specific political situations around the world. We often co-sponsor these events with multiple programs and centers at ASU, as well as with a variety of local and national groups. Each year, FSI events reach over 2,000 ASU faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as policy leaders, government officials, current and former military, and members of multiple communities.
Speakers
Speakers at Future Security Initiative events (and those organized by the Center on the Future of War which was replaced by FSI) have includes: Nadia L. Abu El-Haj, Barnard College; Matthieu Aikins, journalist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner; Anne Applebaum, author, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Suleiman Baldo, Senior Advisor, Enough Project; Karima E. Bennoune, University of Michigan, Fromer UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights; Jonathan Blitzer, Staff writer, The New Yorker; Sr. Soldier-Operator Oleh Bonchynskyi, Ukrainian Volunteer Corps; Victor Blue, photojournalist; Rosa Brooks, Georgetown University Law Center; Craig Calhoun, ASU University Professor of Social Sciences, former president of the London School of Economics and Political Science; Grace M. Cho, Professor of Sociology, College of Staten Island, CUNY; Iona Craig, award-winning journalist; Patricia Evangelista, journalist in the Philippines; Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School; Jill Filipovic, author contributing opinion writer to the New York Times; Caleb Gayle, author, CEO, National Conference on Citizenship; Tony Gerber, Filmmaker; Jill Goldenziel, Professor, Marine Corps University-Command and Staff College; Margaret Hanson, Assistant Professor, SPGS, ASU; Oona Hathaway, Yale Law School; Alex Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers-Newark; Javier Garza Ramos, Independent journalist in Mexico; Robert Joyce, Director, National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Directorate
Paul Kahn, Yale Law School; Khameer Kidia, Harvard Medical School; Stephan Kramer, President, State Domestic Intelligence Service, Thuringia, Germany; Michael Lind, Co-founder, New America; Yi-Ling Liu, award-winning journalist, MajGen Lorna Mahlock USMC, Deputy Director for Combat Support, National Security Agency; Keith Mines, Director, Latin America Program, U.S. Institute of Peace Cecilia Muñoz, MacArthur Fellow, former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council; Arifa Aram Naibi, former soldier in the Afghan Female Tactical Platoon; Elizabeth Neumann, Former Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention and Security Policy, Department of Homeland Security; Molly O’Toole, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist; Thomas E. Ricks, journalist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner; David Rohde, journalist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner; Scott Shapiro, Yale Law School; Günes Murat Tezcür, Director, School of Politics and Global Studies; Nathan Thrall, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and political analyst; Beth VanSchaack, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice; Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Professor of Data Science and Computer Science, Brown University; Richard Wilson, Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights, University of Connecticut; Sarah (Holewinski) Yager, Washington director of Human Rights Watch, among others.
Events in Washington, DC
The Center co-organizes many events with the New America, our partner institution based in Washington, DC. These talks feature experts from various fields and are managed by the New America’s International Security Program.
Conferences and workshops
The Center organizes conferences and workshops, held at ASU and in Washington, DC, at New America and in other venues. These events have focused on a variety of issues including moral injury, global special operations, civilian protections during conflict, biosecurity, shifts in the practice and impact of war, the Syrian conflict, new and emerging methods of human rights documentation and analysis, and cybersecurity.
Community outreach
Center faculty, especially the Center co-directors, often speak to area groups about issues related to global security and international affairs. These include presentations to the many local groups including: the Association of Former Intelligence Officers; Integrated Community Solutions to Active Violence Events; Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at ASU; Phoenix Rotary 100; Rio Verde Community; Soroptimist International; Veterans for Peace; Wiseguise, and others.
National and local media
Center faculty, especially the Center co-directors, often appear in AZ media and national media to discuss issues related to armed conflict, global security, terrorism, and international affairs. Co-Director Peter Bergen is a national security analyst at CNN and writes a weekly column on and writes a weekly column on CNN.com. Other Center faculty often appear on national media and present opinions and analysis in various forums. In addition, Center faculty often appear on local media including appearances on: AZ News Radio Network; “Arizona Horizon,” PBS Eight; “Horizonte,” PBS Eight; 12 News NBC; Arizona’s Family 3TV/CBS 5; “Here and Now,” KJZZ; “The Show,” KJZZ; Telemundo Arizona; Mike O’Neil’s “Think Tank,” KTAR Radio, and others.