Upcoming Events

Recent Advances in the Prevention of Mass Violence (with live webcast) BY INVITATION ONLY*

David A. Hamburg

03/23/10

David A. Hamburg will highlight recent developments in preventing mass violence by drawing together insights and innovations from leaders in the field such as Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Sam Nunn, William Perry, Sidney Drell, Larry Diamond, and Amartya Sen. He will identify the clear warnings that always appear long before genocide erupts and the critical points of entry for early help to countries with troubled intergroup relations. He will also emphasize the promise of international centers of excellence for prevention of mass atrocities.

Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization (with live webcast)

Steven Solomon

03/31/10

How is freshwater scarcity recasting the world order and the societies in which we live?

Carnegie New Leaders Event: The Education of an American Dreamer BY INVITATION ONLY

Peter G. Peterson

04/07/10

Peter G. Peterson chronicles his remarkable life story beginning in Kearney, Nebraska as an eight-year-old manning the cash register at his father's Greek diner, through his "Mad Men" advertising days, to secretary of commerce in Nixon's administration, and to the creation of The Blackstone Group, one of the great financial enterprises in recent times.

How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (with live webcast)

Charles Kupchan

04/08/10

Can rival nations become partners and establish a lasting and stable peace? Should countries, including the United States, engage with other states based on their foreign policy behavior rather than on whether they are democracies?

Dinner and Discussion with Charles A. Kupchan BY INVITATION ONLY*

Charles Kupchan

04/08/10

This dinner and discussion with Charles A. Kupchan is a Carnegie Council Friends Committee event.

The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being (with live webcast)

Derek Bok

04/15/10

How can governments use research to increase the well-being and improve the quality of life for all their citizens? What role can government policy play in fostering satisfaction and well-being?

McCain Conference 2010: New Warriors and New Weapons: The Ethics of Emerging Military Technologies (Taking place at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland)

04/22/10

The U.S. Naval Academy's Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership will host a discussion of the ethical and legal ramifications of emerging military technologies.

How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies (with live webcast)

Roger E. A. Farmer

04/28/10

The financial crisis destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking that had guided policymakers for a generation. But what will take its place? Can capitalism be guided to correct the excesses of a free-market economy without instituting central planning and stifling entrepreneurship?

The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity (with live webcast)

Paul Collier

04/29/10

What are realistic and sustainable solutions to correcting the mismanagement of the natural world? Can an international standard be established to resolve the complex issues of unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other?

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