Next week’s peace picks

It surprises me that anyone would try to do an event during Thanksgiving week, but there are in fact a few good ones on the docket.  And don’t forget the AEI/CNN/Heritage Republican Presidential [Candidates] debate, 8 pm November 22.  That promises to be the most amusing of the lot:  watch for the Taliban in Libya, fixing the debt problem by zeroing out foreign aid and how tough talk will scare the nukes out of Iran.

1.  The View from the Middle East: The 2011 Arab Public Opinion Poll

Polling and Public Opinion, Arab-Israeli Relations, Middle East, The Arab Awakening and Middle East Unrest, North Africa

with

Dr. Ferdinand Mushi Mugumo

Tuesday, November 22, 2011
8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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

As the sixteenth anniversary of the Dayton Accords approaches, it is time to reassess the policies of the United States and the European Union toward the Western Balkans. Please join us for a morning conference featuring policy experts and officials from the United States, European Union and the Western Balkans as we discuss the new CSIS report entitled: “A New Transatlantic Approach for the Western Balkans: Time for Change in Serbia, Kosovo, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.” The conference will feature separate panels on Serbia and Kosovo as well as Bosnia-Herzegovina, in addition to keynote addresses from senior United States and European Union government figures.

Please find a draft agenda here.

Light breakfast will be served.

Please contact Terry Toland at ttoland@csis.org to RSVP.

The discussion will be ON the record.

4.  Iran and International Pressure: An Assessment of Multilateral Efforts to Impede Iran’s Nuclear Program

Iran, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Energy, Weapons of Mass Destruction