Wilson Center: Advancing Peace and Mitigating Crises: Proposed Language for the Foreign Assistance Act

Wilson Center: Advancing Peace and Mitigating Crises: Proposed Language for the Foreign Assistance Act

Date

February 09 2010, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Event Details

Moderator
Charles (Chic) Dambach, President and CEO, Alliance for Peacebuilding

Panelists
Lisa Schirch, Director, 3D Security Initiative

Dane Smith, Adjunct Professor, AU School of International Service

Paul Stares, Director, Center for Preventive Action

This second and final forum in a series on Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) Reform will highlight recommendations from the peacebuilding community to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Obama Administration. A large scale rewrite of the FAA in combination with the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) present a watershed moment as both bodies seek to incorporate peacebuilding into development and foreign policy for the first time. The House Foreign Affairs Committee and State Department are actively seeking input from the NGO community regarding the incorporation of peacebuilding into the reform agenda. How should peacebuilding be defined? What should be the priorities and what structure will best meet the objectives? How can peacebuilding be integrated into a development strategy? What is needed to coordinate a successful government approach to conflict?

Note: This event will not take place at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The location for the event is:

Nitze Building, Kenney Auditorium (1st Floor)
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Johns Hopkins University
1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036

Location