Panel Discussion: Could the UN Help Broker a Truce Between Al Qaeda and the U.S.?

October 18, 2005 12:56 PM

Increasingly, wars are being waged between states and non-state actors, and the most problematic are those in which non-state actor uses “terrorism” and thereby steps outside the bounds of what the nation states consider acceptable forms of armed conflict. The war between the United States and Al Qaeda is a case in point.

What role(s) can and should the United Nations play between nation-states and “terrorist” non-state actors?

That's the subject of a panel discussion hosted by New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Thurs. October 20, from 7:00 to 9:30PM at the Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St., Second Floor Conference Room.

On the panel:
Michael Scheuer
Former Chief of the bin Laden Unit at the C.I.A.’s Counterterrorist Center and the author, as Anonymous, of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror

Dr. Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
Associate Director, Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University, and the author of “Non-Linearity of Engagement: Transnational Armed Groups, International Law, and the Conflict between Al Qaeda and the United States”

Ambassador Ahmad Kamal
Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United Nations, President of the Economic and Social Council, and Vice-President of the General Assembly; currently Senior Fellow at the United Nations Institute of Training and Research

Dr. Edward C. Luck
Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs and Director, Center on International Organization, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and the author of many articles on the UN and its role regarding terrorism

The panel will be moderated by Allen J. Zerkin, J.D., Adjunct Associate Professor