Consortium Partners
A New Framework for Enduring Peace
#SAR2018
Answering the call by the Interagency Stabilization Assistance Review for action from the international community to address fragility more effectively, CL/IPSI/Elliott School of International Affairs and other strategic partners provided a platform for world leaders, policy makers, legislators, development practitioners, peacebuilders, and the private sector to address the challenges to implementing coordinated stabilization programming. Leveraging the new USG definition of stabilization, we examined opportunities to innovate stabilization solutions to violent conflicts.
Over two days in June 2018, the Stabilization Symposium delved into how we apply a single definition of stability across the USG and its partners, how we coordinate and burden share with our allies, multilaterals, and other donors, and how we implement effective stabilization activities.
There were fast-paced presentations, structured networking, interactive workshops, open space methodologies for collaboration, and high-powered attendees. We enjoyed lunch at our pop-up Conflict Cuisine Café [included with registration – view menu], where we celebrated the incredible culinary offerings and music of countries where current stabilization activities are taking place, and explored how food is central to both survival and resilience.
The George Washington University
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
The Symposium’s agenda will be:
Day One: New U.S. and International Policy Frameworks for Responding to Violent Conflict
Leaders from the Department of State, USAID, Department of Defense, National Security Council, Implementing Partners, Capitol Hill, Civil Society, and international partners explored the Stabilization Assistance Review and other new policy frameworks and grappled with questions concerning implementation, including division of labor, sequencing, and measures of success.
Day Two: New Partnerships and Practices to Advance Conflict Prevention, Mitigation, and Stabilization
Leaders from the World Bank, UN, OECD, DFID/FCO, and other international donors/organizations engaged with the USG, implementing partners and CSOs on possibilities for common action and pooled funding to achieve greater stability. Special attention was paid to coordinating efforts to avoid working at cross purposes, and how to build flexibility into programming with achievable and realistic goals and funding.
Dress Code: Civilians Business Professional, Military Service Uniform (ASU, etc.)
Speakers
Kristen Cordell
Senior Advisor (USAID/PPL)
SAR Lead
Peter Quaranto
Peace and Security (State/F)
SAR Lead
Dr. Patrick Quirk
Senior Policy Advisor (State/CSO)
SAR Lead
Sara Reckless
Transition Advisor (USAID/OTI)
SAR Lead
Kelly Uribe
Senior Policy Advisor (OSD/SHA)
SAR Lead
Karen Freeman
Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator (USAID/DCHA)
Jason Ladnier
Director, Office of Partnerships, Strategy, and Communications (DOS/CSO)
Mark Swayne
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Stability and Humanitarian Affairs, SOLIC Policy (DOD/OSD)
Lt. Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr
Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command
Raphael Carland
Managing Director for Policy, Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources (F)
Tess McEnery
Director for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance, National Security Council, White House
Amb. Charles Ries
Vice President, International, RAND
Dr. Jacob Shapiro
Co-Director, Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, Woodrow Wilson School
Melissa Dalton
Senior Fellow & Deputy Director, International Security Program, CSIS
Tine Knott
Vice President, Center for Secure and Stable States, DAI
COL Tony Thacker
Chief, USCENTCOM, Interagency Action Group, Civil Affairs Operations Division
Shareef Khatib
Chief of Party, Creative Associates NRTI/NERI Project
Megan Doherty
Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy, Mercy Corps
LTC Arnel David
COS, Army Future Studies Group
Justin Richmond
Executive Director, Impl.
Amb. Rick Barton
Lecturer, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School
Laurel Patterson
Senior Policy Advisor, Crisis, Fragility and Resilience, UNDP
Ben Long
Country Representative, USAID/OTI Ukraine
Stacia George
Director, West and Central Africa and Haiti, Chemonics
LTG Marc Caron (ret.)
DCAF, International Security Sector Advisory Team
Dr. Stephen Watts
Senior Political Scientist, RAND
Melanie Greenberg
President and CEO, Alliance for Peacebuilding
Stephen Lennon
Director (USAID/OTI)
Alexa Courtney
CEO, Frontier Design
Jason Ladnier
Director, Office of Partnerships, Strategy, and Communications (DOS/CSO)
Carola Mandelbaum
CEO, Creative Learning
Corinne Graff
Senior Policy Scholar, USIP
Amb. Dan Mozena
Senior Coordinator on Boko Haram (DOS)
Julie Werbel
Senior Advisor (USAID/CVE)
Moises Venancio
Regional Advisor, Iraq and Syria Crisis Countries, UNDP
Peter McDermott
Deputy Director, Stabilisation Unit, FCO
Paul B. Stares
Director, Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations
Kevin Melton
Transition Advisor (USAID/OTI)
SAR Contributing Writer
Earl Gast
Executive Vice President for Programs, Creative Associates
Frances Z. Brown
Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Jeremy “Jez” Haslam
Senior Principal Global Practice Leader, Center for Secure and Stable States, DAI
Jenny Willier Murphy
Senior Rule of Law Advisor, Creative Associates
Andrew Joseph Michels
Former Senior Security Sector and Rule of Law Advisor (USAID)
Greg Ducot
Deputy Director, ICITAP
Charles “Chuck” T. Call
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution
Sarah Scarcelli
Deputy Director (DOS/CSO)
Deborah Kimble
Director, Governance & Community Resilience, Creative Associates
Harry Bader
Acting Executive Director, U.S. Global Development Lab (USAID)
COL Joe Holland
Chief, Stability and Humanitarian Engagement Division
J-5 Global Policy & Partnerships
Howie Lind
President, International Stability Operations Association
COL William Flavin (ret.)
Asst. Director, PKSOI
Kate Somvongsiri
Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator (USAID/DCHA)
Henk-Jan Brinkman
Chief, Policy, Planning and Application Branch, UN Peacebuilding Support Office
BG Kimberly Field (ret.)
Director, CVE, Creative Associates
Jim Hake
CEO, Spirit of America
John Agoglia
Director, Trinity Planning & Investments
Elizabeth Winger Shevock
Team Leader, West Africa (USAID/OTI)
Mark Iozzi
Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee
Lauren Van Mètre
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Dr. Daniel Server
Chair, Conflict Management Program, Johns Hopkins University SAIS
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