Iraq Moving Forward
(Boston, 2007)
Brought together several key Iraqi officials with leading international players from divided societies in order to share lessons learned and consider steps for reconciliation and an end to violence in Iraq.
Guatemala
José Maria Argueta, former National Security Advisor of Guatemala
Great Britain
Chris MacCabe, British Joint Secretary, Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference
Iran
Hossein Askari, Iran Professor of International Business and Professor of International Affairs, The George Washington University; Author, Middle East Oil Exporters: What Happened to Economic Development?; Former Mediator between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kuwait
Iraq
Ahmad Iravani, Director of Islamic Studies and Dialogue at Catholic University’s Center for the Study of Cultures and Values
Ali Allawi, Former Minister of Defense and Minister of Trade, Interim Iraq Government Council; Former Minister of Finance, Iraqi Transitional Government; Author, The Occupation of Iraq Winning the War, Losing the Peace
Haider Al Abadi, Member, Iraqi Council of Representatives; Chairman, Economy, Investment and Reconstruction Committee, Council of Representatives,
Former Minister of Communications, Iraqi Government; a Leader, Al-Dawa Party
Feisal Amin al-Istrabadi, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Iraq; Former Deputy to the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament
Brigadier General Khalid Hamid Al Doori, Deputy Chief of Operations, Ministry of Defense, Iraq; Fellow, US Army War College
Omar Ghazi Al-Shahery, Deputy Director General, Defense Intelligence and Security, Ministry of Defense, Iraq
Kuwait
Sami Al-Faraj, Adviser, National Security, Crisis Management, and Strategic Planning, Gulf Coordinating Council Secretary General; President, Kuwait Center for Strategic Studies, Kuwait
South Africa
Aboobaker Ismail, Former Commander of Special Operations, African National Congress; Former Chief of Policy and Planning, Department of Defense, South Africa
Mac Maharaj, Former ANC Lead Negotiator in talks with the National Party Government, South Africa; Former Joint Secretary of the Transitional Executive Council
United States
John Shattuck, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US Department of State; former Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
Barbara Bodine, Former US Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen; Former Deputy Chief of US Mission, Kuwait; Former Coordinator for Counter terrorism, US Department of State; Former Deputy Principal Officer, US Embassy, Baghdad
Peter Galbraith, Author, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End; Former Staff Member, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he documented Iraqi atrocities against the Kurds
Jacques Paul Klein, Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Liberia
Brett McGurk, Director for Iraq, National Security Council; Former Associate General Counsel, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad
Lt. Col. Isaiah (Ike) Wilson III, US Army, Academy Professor and the Director of American Politics, Public Policy and Strategic Studies, United States Military Academy; Former Chief of Plans, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Mosul, Iraq
Padraig O’Malley, John Joseph Moakley Professor of International Peace and Reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts
Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Robert Bendetson, Chairman, External Advisory Board, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Andrew Hess, Professor of International Diplomacy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Faculty Advisory Committee, Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University
Matan Chorev,Tufts University A’05, F’07, EPIIC’04, Co-Founder, New Initiative for Middle East Peace, Institute for Global Leadership
Matthew Edmundson, Tufts University A’05, EPIIC’04, Co-Founder, EXPOSURE, Institute for Global Leadership
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