8:00 – 9:00

Registration and Breakfast

9:00 – 9:20

Welcome and Introduction

 

Nancy Lindborg, President, U.S. Institute of Peace
Stephen J. Hadley, Chair, U.S. Institute of Peace Board of Directors
 

9:20 – 9:30 Collective Wisdom
  Damon Wilson, Executive Vice President, Atlantic Council

9:30 – 10:00

A Conversation with Secretary of State John Kerry
Moderator: Judy Woodruff, Anchor & Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 – 11:45

Discussion I: The Three National Security Priorities for the Next Administration

 

Madeleine Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas)
Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council
Admiral James Stavridis (ret.), Dean of Fletcher School, Tufts Univ.
Moderator: Martha Raddatz, Chief Global Affairs Correspondent, ABC News

11:45 – 12:15

America’s National Security Transition: Passing the Baton

                                          

Ambassador Susan Rice, National Security Advisor

                                          

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn (ret.), National Security Advisor Designate

12:30 – 1:45

Networking Lunch

2:00 – 2:30

Peace Talks

 

“How We Build Peace”
Sarhang Hamasaeed, Director of Middle East Programs, U.S. Institute of Peace

“Rethinking the Roots of Populism”
Arthur Brooks,  President, American Enterprise Institute

2:30 – 3:45

Discussion II: Unpredictable Instability: Managing the New Normal

 

James Carafano, Vice President, Heritage Foundation
Kristalina Georgieva, CEO, World Bank (IBRD/IDA)
Juliette Kayyem, National Security Analyst, CNN
General Jack Keane (ret.), Chairman, Institute for the Study of War
Moderator: Charles Lane, Editorial Writer, The Washington Post

3:45 – 4:15

Coffee break

4:15 – 4:45

A Conversation with Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina)
Moderator: Nancy Lindborg, President, U.S. Institute of Peace

4:45 – 6:00

Discussion III: America’s Role in the World

 

Michèle Flournoy, President, Center for a New American Security
Stephen J. Hadley, Chair, U.S. Institute of Peace Board of Directors
KT McFarland, Deputy National Security Advisor Designate
Jacob Sullivan, Marvin R. Flug Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Moderator: Susan Glasser, Founding Editor, Politico Magazine

6:00 – 6:15

Closing

  Nancy Lindborg, President, U.S. Institute of Peace
Stephen J. Hadley, Chair, U.S. Institute of Peace Board of Directors
6:15 – 7:30 Reception