speakers

Sohail H. Hashmi
Prof. Sohail Hashmi teaches international relations and Middle East politics at Mount Holyoke College. Recent publications include: “An Islamic Solution [to Iraq],” “Islam and Tolerance;” Islamic Political Ethics [ed.]; State Sovereignty: Change and Persistence in International Relations [ed.]; Boundaries and Justice [co-ed.]; and Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction [co-ed.].

Robert Dreyfuss
Nation contributing editor. Author of: Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam; “Is Iran Winning the Iraq War?”; “Who Exactly is the Enemy in Iraq;” “Saving Iraq;” “Is There a Nationalist Solution in Iraq?”; and “Getting Out: Iraq and How to Leave It.”

Paul Hughes
Col. Paul Hughes (U.S. Army, Retired) is Director of Iraq Programs in the Center for Post-Conflict Peace & Stability Operations of the U.S. Institute of Peace. Holder of numerous service medals (e.g., 3 Bronze Stars, 4 Meritorious Service medals), he was formerly director of national security policy on Army staff, director of strategic policy for the Office of Reconstruction & Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq (2003), and chair of the Iraq Study Group military-security expert working group. Author: “Consolidating Gains in Iraq;” “Defeating the Insurgency in Iraq;” and “A Third Way: Alternatives for Iraq’s Future.”

Gareth Porter
Gareth is an independent investigative historian and journalist on national security policy. Previously Co-Director, Indochina Resource Center and Professor of International Studies (CUNY and American University), he is author of: Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam and “The Third Option in Iraq: A Responsible Exit Strategy.”

Craig Eisendrath
Board Chair, Project for Nuclear Awareness; Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy; and Lecturer, Temple University. Co-Founder and Executive Director, National Constitution Center; U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Department of State (1958-1965), where he helped draft the Outer Space Treaty. Author numerous books, including: War In Heaven: The Weaponization of Outer Space (with Helen Caldicott, (2007); Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk (with M. Goodman, 2004); and At War With Time: The Wisdom of Western Thought From the Sages to the 21st Century (2003) .

Ivan Eland
Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute. Formerly Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, he spent 15 years working for Congress in the national security/foreign policy field. Author of: The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed and “The Way Out of Iraq: Decentralizing the Iraqi Government.”

Joseph Schwartzberg
Prof. Joseph E. Schwartzberg writes and lectures extensively on various aspects of UN reform. Former Chair of the University of Minnesota’s South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies department, he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Jawaharlal Nehru University. Author: Revitalizing the United Nations System: Reform Through Weighted Voting and “A New Perspective on Peacekeeping: Lessons from Bosnia and Elsewhere.”

Nabil Al-Tikriti
Prof. Al-Tikriti secured his PhD in Near Eastern civilizations and languages from the University of Chicago. After a storied career with multiple NGOs, including Catholic Relief Services (in Iraq, 91-92), Medicins Sans Frontieres (in Somalia, Iran, Albania, Turkey & Jordan), and election monitoring work (Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Balkans & Africa), Nabil settled down to teaching (History & American Studies) at the University of Mary Washington. Currently Senior Fellow, USIP, re Ethnic Conflict & Population Displacement in Iraq. Author, inter alia: “Social & Political Forces in Iraq: An NGO Primer.”