2008 CTNSP SEMINAR SERIES ON STABILITY OPERATIONS
Center for Technology and National Security Policy
in conjunction with the
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Stability Operations Capabilities
Marshall Hall, Room 155, Fort McNair, DC 20319

  SHAPING AND PREOPERATIONAL SECURITY  
 
 
Day One – Wednesday, 9 January 2008
7:30 AM Registration and Coffee – Welcome Letter
   
8:00 AM Dr. Jeffrey (Jeb) Nadaner, Dept of Defense, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Partnership Strategy
  Strategic Choice and Theory in a Competitive World
   
9:00 AM Dr. Jennifer D. Moroney, RAND, Senior Political Scientist
  Dr. Cathyrn Q. Thurston, RAND, Political Scientist
  Dr. Jefferson P. Marquis, RAND, Political Scientist
  Building Partner Capacity for SSTR Operations
   
10:30 AM BREAK
   
10:45 AM Operational Perspectives: Military Shaping Objectives
  U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR) – BG Guy Sands, Commander, 353 Civil Affairs Command
  Civil Affairs Perspectives on EUCOM Security Cooperation
  U.S. Army South, (USARSO) – Mr. Robert Ruiz, International Military Affairs
  Army Engagement in Latin America/Caribbean
   
12:00 PM Working Lunch
  Pete Cornell, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Programs Directorate, Division Chief for Management
  Capacity Building Programs
   
1:30 PM Emily Goldman, Dept of State, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT)
  International Programs and Initiatives for Defeating Terrorism
   
2:30 – 4:00 PM Mike Smith, Dept of State, Deputy Program Director, Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI), Bureau of Political Military Affairs (PM)
  U.S. Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI): Shaping Global Peacekeeping Capacities
  Chip Beck, Dept of State, Program and policy Coordinator, African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance
  Peace Support Operations Training
   
Day Two - Thursday 10 January 2008
   
7:30 AM Coffee
   
8:00 AM Kevin O’Keefe, Dept of State, Bureau of Political Military Affairs (PM)
  Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (A/DAS) for Plans, Programs and Operations
  Shaping for Stability: The Key Roles of 1206 and FMF Security Assistance
   
9:00 AM Kathleen Hicks, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
  Integrating Development and Security Assistance
   
10:00 AM BREAK
   
10:15 AM Panel Discussion: Case Study Pakistan
  Chris Runyan, USAID, Program and Donor Coordination Officer, Bureau for Asia and the Near East
  Nitin Madhev, USAID, Officer-in-Charge, Pakistan Programs, Bureau for Asia and the Near East
  Craig Cohen, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Deputy Chief of Staff & Fellow, Post Conflict Reconstruction, International Security Policy
   
11:45 AM Working Lunch
  Dr. Thomas Rid, Center for Transatlantic Relations, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
  French Experiences with the ‘Administrative Use of Force’
   
1:15 PM Elizabeth Reicharts, Director, U.S. Government & International Affairs, BPAmerica
  Private Sector Perspectives on Engagement
   
2:15 PM Panel Discussion: Case Study Colombia
  Jeff Bischoff, Dept of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
  Dr. Thomas Marks, Professor of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism,
  School for National Security Executive Education (SNSEE), National Defense University
   
3:30 PM Bernie Carreau, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
  Conclusions and the Way Forward
   

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