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Empowering Girls and Young Women in the Middle East: The Valuable Girl Project and Beyond

Nov 3 2005 - 12:00pm
Nov 3 2005 - 2:00pm

Please join our featured panelists Charlotte Ponticelli, Senior Coordinator of Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State, Brian Katulis, Director of Democracy and Public Diplomacy, Center for American Progress, and Phoebe Farag, International Program Director, Coptic Orphans for a brief video screening of the Valuable Girl Project and a revealing discussion on empowering young women in the Middle East and North Africa. Panelists will discuss the status of gender equality and women’s empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa region. Asif M. Shaikh, President and CEO, IRG and President, SID-Washington will moderate the session.

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The Role of the Military in International Development

Nov 18 2005 - 12:30pm
Nov 18 2005 - 2:00pm

Military personnel have long operated alongside development organizations, from peacekeeping in conflict zones to humanitarian assistance efforts. Recent events have raised the question of closer collaboration between military personnel and development practitioners. Development has become a constituent part of the U.S. National Security Strategy, along with diplomacy and defense. The reconstruction programs in Iraq and Afghanistan have tasked the military with some traditionally development goals while providing development organizations with some of their biggest challenges to date. These issues, as well as USAID’s Fragile States Strategy and recent creation of an Office of Military Affairs, highlight the need for closer collaboration and sharing of experience between development practitioners and military planners.

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New Trade Initiatives and Success Stories in Africa

Nov 21 2005 - 12:00pm
Nov 21 2005 - 1:30pm

Trade has increasingly become a powerful engine for economic growth and poverty alleviation in many African nations. Florizelle (Florie) Liser, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa in the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), will examine U.S.-Africa trade growth. She leads U.S. trade efforts in the forty-eight countries of sub-Saharan Africa, oversees implementation of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), and serves as chief U.S. negotiator for a free trade agreement with the five member countries of the Southern African Customs Union.Ms. Liser will discuss new trade initiatives and success stories.
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Seven Revolutions Project: Looking Ahead at the Key Challenges We Face through 2025

Dec 2 2005 - 12:00pm
Dec 2 2005 - 2:00pm

SID-Washington is pleased to feature a CSIS (Center for Strategic & International Studies) multi-media presentation called THE SEVEN REVOLUTIONS at our December Chapter Event.

SEVEN REVOLUTIONS identifies and analyzes the issues that policy makers, businesses, and other leaders will face through the year 2025. The goal is to promote strategic, forward-looking thinking about how the world will change over the next 25 years and what that change will mean for international leadership.

Dr. Erik Peterson, Director of the Global Strategy Institute at CSIS and creator of the Seven Revolutions Project, will present this very engaging examination of the most critical policy challenges ahead of us in population; resource management and environmental protection; technology; knowledge development and dissemination; economic integration; conflict; and governance. The presentation provides an exciting call to action to help shape the future.

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