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Location: Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church 900 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001
8:00am-9:00am- Registration and Breakfast
9:00am-9:50am- Opening Session
- Medea Benjamin (CODEPINK) @medeabenjamin
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the human rights
group Global Exchange and the peace group CODEPINK,
is author of the new book Drone Warfare: Killing
by Remote Control (OR Books, 2012).
- Clive Stafford Smith (Reprieve) @CliveSSmith
Clive Stafford Smith is the founder and Director
of Reprieve. He has helped secure the release
of 65 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay and in 2010
received the International Bar Association's
Human Rights Award.
- Shahzad Akbar (Foundation for Fundamental
Rights) @ShazadAkbar
Shahzad Akbar is the co-founder and Legal Director
of Foundation for Fundamental Rights. He has
been litigating on behalf of drone-strike victims
from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
of Pakistan.
Ethical and Political Issues
of Drone Use and Targeted Killings
10:00am-11:15am
Speakers:
- Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson is the founder of Neged Neshek,
a project documenting and analyzing Israeli
militarism and the arms industry. He is a featured
writer for Electronic Intifada and a former
International Coordinator of the Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions.
- Sheila Carapico
Sheila Carapico is a contributing editor of
Middle East Report and a professor of political
science and international studies at the University
of Richmond.
- Madiha Tahir @Madi_Hatter
Madiha Tahir is an independent
journalist reporting on conflict, culture and politics in Pakistan. Her
work has appeared in several media outlets including Foreign Affairs,
The Columbia Journalism Review, Wall Street Journal, BBC and PRI's The
World, Global Post, The National, Caravan and Democracy Now!
- Sadia Ali Aden @SadiaAden
Dr. Sadia Aden is a human
rights advocate and a freelance writer. Many of her articles on Somalia,
Islam, and human rights have been published by media groups around the
world (Huffington Post, Middle East On-Line, Islam On-line, Global
Politician, Aljazeera Magazine, News Blaze and Scoop).
- Leili Kashani (CCR), Moderator
Leili Kashani is Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights and works on the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative. She advocates for an end to all unjust U.S. detentions and against expanding U.S. wars.
Legality and Transparency of
Drones and Targeted Killings
11:30am-12:45pm
Speakers:
- Hina Shamsi (ACLU)
Hina Shamsi Director of the ACLU's National
Security Project and her focus is on the intersection
of national security and counter terrorism policies
and international human rights and humanitarian
law. She has also served as Senior Advisor to
the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions.
- Maria LaHood (CCR)
Maria LaHood is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She specializes in international human rights litigation, seeking to hold government officials and corporations accountable for torture, extrajudicial killings and war crimes abroad. Her cases have included Al-Aulaqi v. Obama, to prevent the “targeted killing” of a U.S. citizen in violation of constitutional and international law.
- David Glazier
David Glazier is a professor of law at Loyola
Law School in Los Angeles. He served 21 years
as a US Navy surface warfare officer. In that
capacity, he commanded the USS George Philip,
served as the Seventh Fleet staff officer responsible
for the US Navy-Japan relationship, the Pacific
Fleet officer responsible for the US Navy-PRC
relationship, and participated in UN sanctions
enforcement against Yugoslavia and Haiti.
- Shahzad Akbar (Foundation for Fundamental
Rights) @ShazadAkbar
Shahzad Akbar is the co-founder and Legal Director
of Foundation for Fundamental Rights. He has
been litigating on behalf of drone-strike victims
from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
of Pakistan.
- James Cavallaro, Moderator
Jame Cavallaro is the founding director of Stanford Law School's International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic. He has extensive expertise in international human rights law and the human rights movement; human rights issues in Latin America and the developing world; and international human rights litigation.
Victims, Compensation and Accountability
1:30pm-2:45pm
Speakers:
- Sarah Holewinski (Campaign for Innocent
Victims in Conflict) @SarahAtCIVIC
Sarah Holewinski is the Executive Director of
Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC).
She has traveled to Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia,
Sri Lanka, Lebanon and other places to lobby
for smarter, more compassionate policies for
war victims. She is a team member of the Council
on Foreign Relations.
- Rafia Zakaria (DAWN) @rafiazakaria
Rafia Zakaria is a Pakistani-American lawyer and journalist. She co-founded the Muslim
Women's Legal Fund, which provides legal representation
to Muslim women facing domestic abuse in family
and immigration law cases. She writes a weekly
column for DAWN Pakistan's largest English newspaper
and is author of the forthcoming book Silence
in Karachi: An intimate History of Pakistan.
- Chris Woods (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) @chrisjwoods
Chris Woods is a senior reporter at the Bureau where he leads a dedicated team examining the US covert war on terror in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Despite continuing CIA claims that it is not killing civilians in Pakistan, Chris's recent investigations have proved otherwise. Most recently, he exposed CIA attacks on rescuers and funeral-goers.
- Amna Buttar
Dr. Amna Buttar is a member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab in Pakistan and a human rights activist.
- David Cortright, Moderator
David Cortright teaches peace studies and nonviolent social change at the University of Notre Dame and is the Director of Policy Studies at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He has written widely about nonviolent social change and nuclear disarmament.
Domestic Drones, Surveillance
and Privacy Concerns
3:00pm-4:15pm
Speakers:
- Jay Stanley (ACLU) @JayCStanley
Jay Stanley is Senior Policy Analyst with ACLU's
Speech, Privacy and Technology Project and co-authored
the recent ACLU report “Protecting Privacy
from Aerial Surveillance: Recommendations for
Government Use of Drone Aircraft.”
- Amie Stepanovich (Electronic Privacy Information
Center) @astepanovich
Amie Stepanovich is legal counsel at the Electronic
Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Her work
includes issues of national security, government
surveillance, digital security, and open government.
- Tom Barry (Center for International Policy) @transbordertom
Tom Barry, senior analyst at the Center for International Policy, directs the institute's TransBorder Project. He has authored numerous books about U.S. foreign policy and Latin America. Barry produces the Border Lines Blog. His investigative article on immigrant imprisonment in the Boston Review, “A Death in Texas,” was a National Magazine Award finalist in 2009.
- Trevor Timm (Electronic Frontier Foundation) @WLLegal
Trevor Timm is an activist at the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. He specializes in free
speech issues and government transparency.
- Shahid Buttar (BORDC), Moderator
Shahid Buttar is Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. He works to defend civil liberties, constitutional rights and rule of law principles threatened in the United States by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
International Convention on
Drone Use
4:30pm-6:00pm
Speakers:
- Noel Sharkey (ICRAC)
Noel Sharkey is a professor of Artificial Intelligence
and Robotics at the University of Sheffield
and co-founder of the International Committee
for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC).
- Peter Asaro (ICRAC)
Peter Asaro is an assistant professor at the
New School in New York and co-founder of the
International Committee for Robot Arms Control
(ICRAC).
- Mark Gubrud (ICRAC)
Mark Gubrud is Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of North Carolina. He proposed a ban on autonomous lethal robots as early as 1988. He writes and speaks in support of arms control for space weapons and military robots, and against the cult of technology.
- Sarah Knuckey
Sarah Knuckey is Director of the Project on Extrajudicial Executions at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law and is an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law (NYU). She was previously Senior Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions.
- Lucy Suchman, Moderator
Lucy Suchman is a Professor of the Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University in the UK, and Co-Director of Lancaster's Centre for Science Studies.
7:30pm-9:00pm- Closing Session
- Jeremy Scahill
Jeremy Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. He recently published a piece on how U.S. counterterrorism operations in Yemen, including the use of drones, has backfired.
- Nancy Mancias (CODEPINK) @nancymancias
Nancy L. Mancias is the coordinator for CODEPINK's War Criminals and Ground the Drones campaigns.She is a key organizer in the San Francisco anti-war community and supports war resisters in the United States and Canada.
- Nick Mottern (KnowDrones)
Nick Mottern has worked as a reporter, researcher, writer and political organizer over the last 30 years. While in the US Navy he was in Vietnam in 1962-63. He is the author of Suffering Strong, recounting experiences of his first trip to Africa. He has also been involved in grassroots action in the Lower Hudson Valley. He is director of the 2012 national Know Drones Tour.
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