On November 18, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. ET, please join the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative for a Reporters at Risk series event focused on the thirtieth anniversary of the Dayton Accords and the end of the war in Bosnia.
This event will feature firsthand accounts from resilient reporters who bravely covered the war on the ground and worked to maintain the public’s awareness of the conflict despite the risks they faced, including death, injury, and kidnapping. In this discussion, these reporters will also reflect on the meaning of the war and the Dayton Peace Accords thirty years on.
The Reporters at Risk series conveys the stakes and sacrifices that correspondents undertake to deliver the news. Often stationed on the frontlines of crisis and conflict, correspondents face physical, psychological, and political threats across assignments and over the course of their careers, including harassment, violence, imprisonment, and more.
New policy: In-person attendees will be required to show photo ID upon arrival, and no on-site registration will be permitted. Guests will not be admitted later than twenty minutes after the event’s start time. Registration for this event will close at 5:00 p.m. ET the day prior.
To join us in-person or virtually, please complete the registration form below.
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Opening remarks
Adrienne Arsht
Executive Vice Chair
Atlantic Council
Speakers
David Rohde
Senior Executive Editor for National Security
NBC News
Roger Cohen
Paris Bureau Chief
The New York Times
Moderated by
Thom Shanker
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
Atlantic Council;
Director, Project for Media & National Security
The George Washington University
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