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Winning The Peace: From West Point to War Zones

CPT Mark Boyle, Executive Officer of Honor Guard Company, 4/3 IN, The Old Guard
LT Ronalee Balog, Regional Command East, Resource Manger; 82nd Airborne Division, Afghanistan
Lisa Schirch, Professor of Peacebuilding, Eastern Menonite University
MAJ Rebecca Patterson, Member of the Army Staff; Course Director for Winning the Peace

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Victims No More: Seeking the Middle Way in the Middle East

Amal Jadou, Deputy chief of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) Mission, Washington, D.C.
Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Affairs
Rami Khouri, Director, Isaam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut
Moty Cristal, Founder and CEO, Nest Consulting, Negotiation Strategies
Joshua Weiss, Managing Director, The Abraham Path Initiative; Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, Global Negotiation Initiative, Harvard Negotiation Project

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Riding the Tiger: Asia Ascending

Saket Soni, Director, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice
Colin Rajah, Program Director, International Migrant Rights and Global Justice Program, National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
Samina Ahmed, Director, South Asia Project, International Crisis Group
Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director, Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

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Tightrope in Teheran: Negotiating Iran's Nuclear Option

Dr. Trita Parsi, Founder and President, National Iranian American Council; Author, Treacherous Alliance-The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States
Qamar-ul Huda, Senior Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace
Jim Walsh, Research Associate in International Security, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Farideh Farhi, Independent Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii

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Bombs Away

Joseph Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund
Laura Peterson, Senior Policy Analyst, Taxpayers for Common Sense
Gordon Adams, Distinguished Fellow, American University School of International Service, Stimson Center
Hans Kristensen, Director, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists
Paul Ingram, Executive Director, BASIC

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Peace, Justice - or Both

Marieke Wierda, Director, Prosecutions Program, International Center for Transitional Justice in Beirut
Mohamed Suma, Director, Sierra Leone Court Monitoring Project
Nick Grono, Deputy President, International Crisis Group, Brussels, Belgium
Nader Nadery, Commissioner, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
Priscilla Hayner, Director, Peace and Justice Unit; Director, International Center for Transitional Justice Geneva
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Reviving the Forgotten Continent

Gerald LeMelle, Executive Director, Africa Action
Melvin P. Foote, Executive Director, Constituency for Africa
Jeannine Scott, Senior Vice President, Africare
Emira Woods, Co-Director, Foreign Policy in Focus
John Norris, Executive Director, Enough

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Pan America's Promise

Tom Barry, Director, TransBorder Project; Americas Policy Program Fellow, Center for International Policy
Oscar Chacon, Executive Director, National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities
Luis Fernando Arias Arias, Secretary General, National Indigenous Organization of Colombia
Joy Olson, Executive Director, Washington Office on Latin America

We also interviewed Gaston Chillier, Executive Director of the Center for Legal and Social Studies located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but did not include him in the program.

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Foundations as Catalysts

Naila Bolus, Executive Director, Ploughshares Fund
Gennady Pshakin, Director, Analytical Center for Non-Proliferation, Russia
Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California
Cheryl L. Dorsey, President, Echoing Green
Katie Redford, Co-Founder and US Office Director, Earth Rights International
Charlie Brown, Executive Director of Changemakers, Ashoka
Carla Javits, President, REDF, formerly known as the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund
Michael Edwards, Author, "Just another Emperor? The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism"
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Shattered Dreams: The Struggle to Reconstruct Iraq

Kasra Mofarah, Executive Coordinator, The NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq (NCCI)
David Steele, Reconciliation Facilitator, United States Institute of Peace
Basma Al-Khateeb, Project Manager for Women and Youth Programs, Iraqi Al-Amal Association (IAA)
Hero Anwar, HR and Program Manager for REACH, an Iraq NGO
Nabil Al-Tikriti, Fellow, US Institute of Peace; Assistant Professor for the University of Mary Washington.

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Hard Power / Soft Power: Peacebuilding at the Pentagon

Lisa Schirch, Professor of Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University
Col. John Agoglia, Director of the U.S. Army's Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) at Carlisle, PA
Lorelei Kelly, Policy Director for the Real Security Initiative, The White House Project
Eric Schwartz, Executive Director Connect US Fund
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What Are These Things Good For? The Pragmatic Push to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons

Barry Blechman, Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center
Catherine Kelleher, Professor, Strategic Research Department, U.S. Naval War College
James Goodby, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Jayantha Dhanapala, President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Natalie Goldring, Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University
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Russia Resurgent: The Once and Future Superpower

Clifford Gaddy, Senior Fellow Brookings Institution
Masha Lipman, Masha Lipman, Editor in Chief Pro et Contra Journal, Society and Regions
Fraser Cameron, Director, EU-Russia Centre
Rose Gottemoeller, Director, The Carnegie Moscow Center
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Iraq Redux: The Consequences of a U.S. Attack on Iran

Trita Parsi, Author, President, National Iranian American Council
Rami Khouri, Editor-at-Large, The Daily Star; Director, Isaam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Abbas Milani, Director Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University
Michael Ostrolenk, President, American Conservative Defense Alliance
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Manhattan Mecca: Muslims in New York

Robina Niaz, Founder and Executive Director: Turning Point for Women and Families
Imam Shamsi Ali Muhammed, Director, Jamaica Muslim Center
Louis Cristillo, Professor at Columbia University
Sister Aisha al Adawiya, Director for Women in Islam
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Ancient Persia, Modern Iran: Radiance, Repression and Transcendence

Hamid Tehrani, Persian Service Editor for Global Voices Online
Rouhollah K. Ramazani, Professor Emeritus of Politics at University of Virginia
Richard Bulliet, Professor of History Middle East Institute, Columbia University
Arash Naraghi, PhD candidate of philosophy at University of California, Santa Barbara
Houra Yavari, Senior Staff Associate at Columbia University, Center for Iranian Studies
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Exploit, Explode, or Explore: Deciding and Designing the Final Frontier

Anousheh Ansari, First female private space explorer
Leonard David, Special Correspondent for SPACE.com
Craig Eisendrath, Senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, co-author War in Heaven
Jonathan Dean, Adviser on Global Security Issues at the Union for Concerned Scientists
Cynda Collins Arsenault, President, Secure World Foundation
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Regime Change? The Uncertain Future of Nuclear Weapons

Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, Professor of Physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad
Michael Desch, Professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University
Rebecca Johnson, Institute Director Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy
Roland Timerbaev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor
Joe Cirincione, Vice President for National Security at the Center for American Progress
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Seizing the Ultimate High Ground: The Dubious Drive to Dominate Space

Theresa Hitchens, Director of the Center for Defense Information
Roald Sagdeyev, Space Scientist, East-West Science &Technology Center, Former Adviser to Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev
Gregory Kulacki, China Specialist at the Union of Concerned Scientists
Everett Dolman, U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air & Space Studies
General Charles Horner (USAF Ret.), Former Head of U.S. Space Command
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Inefficient but Indispensable: Reforming and Reviving the United Nations

James Traub, Journalist, Author of The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power

Tim Wirth, President UN Foundation

Ambassador Munir Akran, Pakistan Representative to the United Nations

Roderick Hills, Former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman

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