Ambassador Robert R. King is a senior advisor (non-resident) at CSIS. He served as special envoy for North Korea human rights issues at the U.S. Department of State. He was nominated by President Barack Obama, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and served in that position from November 2009 to January 2017. Ambassador King led U.S. efforts to press North Korea for progress on its human rights, U.S. humanitarian work in North Korea, and the treatment of U.S. citizens being held in the North. He represented the United States in international organizations dealing with these issues. Earlier, Dr.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the president and CEO of New America, a think and action tank dedicated to renewing America in the Digital Age. She is also the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009–2011, she served as director of policy planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Prior to her government service, Slaughter was the Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 2002–2009 and the J.

The feature documentary follows the life of iconic Syrian peace activist Ghiyath Matar, who became internationally known as "Little Gandhi". Matar was a key organizer of peaceful protests in his hometown of Daraya, inspiring people worldwide. His brutal torture and death at the age of 26 outraged the international community and erupted into one of the most violent crises in modern history.

Memorial Union, Pima Auditorium Room 230, 6:00pm

Bergen is Vice President at New America, Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies, Co-Director of the Center on the Future of War, and the author of many bestselling books.

Event is cosponsored with the Center for Political Thought and Leadership.

Coor Hall Room 4403, ASU Tempe Campus

The U.S. sent troops into Afghanistan following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and a Congressional Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF, was put into effect. But there are questions about whether that AUMF can or should apply to the nation’s efforts in Syria, Iraq or Yemen.

Sens. Jeff Flake and Tim Kaine have been working on a new bipartisan authorization to update it.

To learn more about a possible new AUMF, we spoke with Jeff Kubiak. He is a senior fellow at ASU’s Center on the Future of War.

Featuring Braden Allenby - President’s Professor, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and Professor of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, and of Law; Mark von Hagen - Professor, History and Global Studies, School of International Letters and Cultures & School of Politics and Global Studies; Interim Director, Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies; Founding Director, Office for Veteran and Military Academic Engagement.

Each year, Human Rights at ASU sponsors a film festival to engage students, faculty, staff, and the greater community in a discussion of human rights issues through film and discussion. This year’s three-day festival will focus on human rights at risk in the United States. Our terrific speakers include award-winning filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin; former Ambassador and indigenous rights champion H.E. Mr. Crispin S. Gregoire; Phyllis Young, Cofounder of Women of All Red Nations; Drs.