1.  “Building a Strategy on North Korean Human Rights: International Perspectives”

Hosted By: U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS and Database Center for North Korean Human Rights

Tuesday, November 15, 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM

Location: Kenney Auditorium, The Nitze Building (main building)

Summary: Kim Moon-soo, governor of the Gyeonggi province in South Korea, will deliver the keynote address at 9:30 a.m. For a full conference agenda, visit http://uskoreainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/NKHR-Seminar-DRAFT12.pdf. To RSVP, visit http://uskoreainstitute.org/events/?event_id=90.

Webcast: This event will be webcast live beginning at 9:30am on November 15, 2011 at www.usip.org/webcast.

On November 15, the U.S. Institute of Peace will host the Washington launch of The Asia Foundation’s “Afghanistan in 2011: A Survey of the Afghan People” — the broadest, most comprehensive public opinion poll in the country. The report covers all 34 provinces, with candid data gleaned from face-to-face interviews with more than 6,000 Afghan citizens on security, corruption, women’s rights, development, the economy, and negotiating with the Taliban.

This marks the seventh in the Foundation’s series of surveys in Afghanistan; taken together they provide a barometer of Afghan public opinion over time. With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the findings help inform national leaders, scholars, donors and the policymaking community focused on Afghanistan and the region. Join USIP and The Asia Foundation for a presentation of this year’s findings, and analysis of what the seven years of findings indicate for Afghanistan’s recent past, and the country’s future.

This event will feature the following speakers:

• David Arnold, introduction
  President
  The Asia Foundation
• Tariq Osman, panelist
  Program Director, Kabul
  The Asia Foundation
• Sunil Pillai, panelist
  Technical Adviser, Kabul
  The Asia Foundation
• Sheilagh Henry, panelist
  Deputy Country Representative, Kabul
  The Asia Foundation
• Andrew Wilder, moderator
  Director, Afghanistan and Pakistan Programs
  United States Institute of Peace

USIP, November 17, 10-noon

Ten years after the U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan initiated a new, post-Taliban order, the success and sustainability of the international community’s ambitious state-building project is being questioned. Though billed as transformative, it is unclear whether the state-building investments and reforms of the past decade can be sustained, or will represent a job half-done.

With the Afghan engagement now at a critical juncture, marked by the convening of another Bonn conference in early December, international donor assistance budgets to Afghanistan are declining, prompting a need to look back as well as forward. Why has deeper and broader engagement been repeatedly attempted despite concern that many efforts have had limited and sometimes counter-productive effects? How can lessons from the past help to identify reasonable ways forward? Please join USIP for a discussion with a panel of leading experts to discuss this important topic at a critical juncture in the state-building history of Afghanistan.

• Astri Suhrke, panelist
  Senior Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute
  Author, When Less is More: the International Project in Afghanistan
• J. Alexander Thier, panelist
  Assistant to the Administrator and Director, Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs
  U.S. Agency for International Development
• Michael Semple, panelist
  2011-2012 Carr Center Fellow
  Harvard Kennedy School
  
• Andrew Wilder, moderator
  Director, Afghanistan and Pakistan Programs
  United States Institute of Peace

The Center for Strategic and International Studies presents

Afghan Perspectives on Post-Transition

featuring remarks by

Mr. Mohammad Haneef Atmar
Former Afghan Minister of Interior

Sponsored by ANHAM

Thursday, November 17, 2011
10:30AM – 11:30AM

CSIS B1 Conference Center
CSIS 1800 K. St. NW, Washington, DC 20006

CSIS will present the first in a series of speeches and Q&A sessions on perspectives for Afghan governance and issues following the 2014 transition. Our speaker for this first event is Mr. Mohammad Haneef Atmar. Mr. Atmar served as one of Afghanistan’s leading Ministers during his terms in office as the Minister of Interior (2008-2010), Minister of Education (2006-2008) and as Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (2002-2006).  We hope you can join us or send a representative.

November 17, 2011 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Please join the Better World Campaign, the United Nations Association of the USA and National Capital Area Chapter for a panel discussion on Sudan & South Sudan: United States and United Nations Engagement with   Princeton Lyman U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and Francois Grignon  UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations moderated by Peter Yeo Executive Director of The Better World Campaign Thursday, November 17, 2011 1:00– 2:30 p.m. 2103 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC a light lunch will be served R.S.V.P. coo@unausa.org