The Atlantic Council’s Millennium Leadership Program is pleased to partner with The Concordia Forum to host a symposium featuring a diverse range of experts to offer perspectives on American policy priorities for the coming decade.
The day-long symposium will feature plenaries on online censorship, hate speech, and the challenges to freedom of expression; challenges facing Muslim communities in the West; repercussions for the US, Pakistan, and the OIC following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan; engaging new resources and allies to tackle climate change; and human rights and foreign policy lessons learned from the Uighur and Rohingya struggles.
The symposium will also feature a special keynote by Congressman Adam Schiff, who will discuss the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, national security threats to the United States and its allies, the fight to protect and uphold democracy, and his memoir, “Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could.”
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Agenda
Opening remarks
SPEAKERS
• Muddassar Ahmed, President, The Concordia Forum
• Jonah Fisher, Senior Director, Millennium Leadership Program, Atlantic Council
MC
• Salma Hasan Ali, Author/Storyteller
Plenary 1: Online censorship, hate speech, and the challenges to freedom of expression
PANELISTS
• Graham Brookie, Senior Director, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Atlantic Council
• Rabia Chaudry, Attorney and Author
• Keith Ellison, Attorney General, Minnesota
• Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO, Anti-Defamation League
KEYNOTE
• Alex Johnson, Deputy Director, US Foreign Policy – US Programs, Open Society Foundations
MODERATOR
• Katherine Brown, President and CEO, Global Ties
Special keynote
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
The Hon. Adam Schiff, US Representative, California
Plenary II: Challenges facing Muslim communities in the West
PANELISTS
• Baqir al-Kashmiri, Vice Chairman and Religious Affairs Director, I.M.A.M.
• Salam al-Marayati, President, Muslim Public Affairs Council
• Debbie Almontaser, Founder, Khalil Gibran International Academy
• Saafir Rabb, Muslim community activist
KEYNOTE
• Farah Pandith, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
MODERATOR
• Arshia Wajid, Founder, American Muslim Health Professionals
Plenary III: Afghanistan after the withdrawal: The way forward for Pakistan, the US and the OIC
PANELISTS
• Hassan Abbas, Professor, National Defense University
• Hassan Abdein, Academic Researcher
• Haris Tarin, Senior Policy Advisor, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland Security
MODERATOR
• Kamran Bokhari, Director, Analytical Development, New Lines Institute
Plenary IV: Engaging new resources and allies to tackle climate change
PANELISTS
• Vicente Lopez Ibor Mayor, Founder and Former Director, LightSource BP
• Ibrahim Ozedmir, Professor and Founding President, Hasan Kalyoncu
• Jenan Mohajir, Senior Director of Speical Projects, Interfaith Youth Core
• Glenn Schatz, Chief Revenue Officer, BlocPower
• Michael Shank, Co-Director, Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance
MODERATOR
Reed Blakemore, Deputy Director, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council
Plenary V: Human rights and foreign policy: Lessons from the Uighur and Rohingya struggles
PANELISTS
•Rushan Abbas, Uighur activist
• Rayhan Asat, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs, Atlantic Council
• Arsalan Suleman, Counsel, Foley Hoag LLP
•Yasmin Ullah, Rohingya social justice activist
KEYNOTE
•Uzra Zeya, Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy & Human Rights, US Department of State
MODERATOR
•Arif Hyder Ali, Co-chair of International Arbitration practice, Dechert LLP
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