Workshop in October 2015 at the Georgetown University Law Center linking Center faculty with partners from Oxford University’s “Changing Character of Warfare” program. Participants included: Peter Bergen, New America, ASU; Rosa Brooks, Georgetown University Law Center; Laura Dickinson, George Washington University Law School; Brigadier General Rich Gross, Legal Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff; Annette Idler, Oxford University; Rob Johnson, Oxford University; Marty Lederman, Georgetown University Law Center; and Daniel Rothenberg, New America, ASU.
Day-long Conference in November 2017 at New America in Washington, DC on to discuss current and future challenges for U.S. Special Operations, with a focus on the projected growth of proxy wars. Speakers included: Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas); Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.); Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.); Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa); Michael Lumpkin, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict; Dr.
Workshop in November 2017 at New America in Washington, D.C. on moral injury linking the Center with colleagues from the PLuS Alliance, opened by Michael Crow, ASU President. Participants included: Brad Allenby, ASU; David Wood, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist; Ed Barrett, Director of Research at the U.S. Naval Academy's Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership; William P. Nash, Director of Psychological Health, United States Marine Corps; and Daniel Rothenberg, ASU.
Day-long Conference in November 2018 at New America in Washington, DC on to discuss current and future challenges for U.S. Special Operations, with a focus on the projected growth of proxy wars. Speakers included: Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America; Peter Singer, ASU and New America; Erik Grant, Raytheon; Wendy Anderson, former U.S. Defense Department Chief of Staff; Kara Frederick, Center for a New American Security; LTG (ret.) Benjamin Freakley, ASU; Norman Roule, former National Intelligence Manager for Iran; Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Col.
Workshop in December 2018 at New America in Washington, DC on to present and discuss the findings of a two-year study run by George Mason University and Stanford University to explore critical biosecurity issues related to CRISPR and related genome editing technologies. The event brought together scholars, policy researchers, students and security experts and was co-sponsored by the Center and New America.
Two-day interdisciplinary conference at ASU in January 2019 with anthropologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and others addressing social, political, legal, and other issues related to the status of Kosovo. The event was co-sponsored by the Center, the Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, and the School of Politics and Global Studies and supported by the Kopf Conference Fund.
Professor of Practice, counter insurgency/terrorism expert former advisor to Gen. David Petraeus, and Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice, author of The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, The Accidental Guerrilla, Counterinsurgency, Out of the Mountains
The conference served as the public launch of the Future of War project, bringing together leading experts, scholars and policy makers to discuss developments in the fields of international and national security. There were over 400 attendees and over 9,000 people watched the event via the live-stream. The conference was co-sponsored by CNN.
The Future of War Conference brings together a collection of experts to address key issues and challenges arising from the changing nature of conflict and war. The conference is part of an initiative linking New America, a nonpartisan research public policy institute and civic enterprise, and Arizona State University, one of the nation’s largest public research universities. It will be held on March 10 at the Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.
CNN is the media partner for the event which will also be live-streamed.
The Future of War Conference 2017 was held in Washington, DC on March 21, 2017. The event links ASU and New America and has been co-sponsored by CNN. It features major thought leaders on various issues of domestic and global security including emerging technologies, current conflicts, refugees, cyberwar, international law, civilian-military relations and how to improve links between academic research and public policy.