Al Qaeda 3.0

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Related Programs:
American Strategy Program, Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency Initiative

At Al Qaeda 3.0, leading policy makers, law enforcement officials, scholars and journalists from around the world assessed the current threat posed by al Qaeda and its affiliates to the United States, Europe, the Middle East and South Asia. The conference speakers also explored what steps the next administration should take in combating al Qaeda and its affiliates both at home and abroad.

The conference was moderated by Steve Clemons, Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and Karen Greenberg, Executive Director of the NYU Center on Law and Security.

The live webcast of this event has concluded. Links to video recordings of each panel are available below.

Co-hosted by the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program and New York University’s Center on Law and Security.

Agenda

• 8:45 am Registration and Arrival

• 9:00 am Introductory Remarks

  Steve Clemons
  New America Foundation
  Karen Greenberg
  Center on Law and Security, New York University

• 9:15 am The Future of Al Qaeda *
  

  Frances Fragos Townsend
  Homeland Security Advisor to President Bush 2004-2008
  Bruce Hoffman
  Georgetown University
  Steve Coll
  New America Foundation & The New Yorker
  Peter Bergen
  New America Foundation & CNN

• 10:45 am The War of Ideas

  Lawrence Wright
  NYU Center on Law and Security & The New Yorker
  Daniel Kimmage (PowerPoint Presentation PDF, 14 pps.)
  Author, "Iraqi Insurgent Media: The War of Images and Ideas"
  Eliza Griswold
  New America Foundation

• 12:00 pm Lunch & The Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan

  Seth Jones
  RAND
  Christine Fair
  RAND
  Nir Rosen
  NYU Center on Law and Security & New America Foundation

• 1:15 pm Al Qaeda in the Arab World and Europe

  Abdel Bari Atwan
  Al Quds Al Arabi
  Brian Fishman (PowerPoint Presentation, PDF, 5 pps.)
  Combating Terrorism Center, West Point
  Mohammed Hafez
  Naval Postgraduate School
  Thomas Hegghammer
  Harvard University & Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)

• 2:30 pm Counter-Radicalization: What Works?

  Christopher Boucek
  Carnegie Endowment
  Zachary Abuza
  Simmons College
  Kenneth Ballen (PowerPoint Presentation, PDF, 12 pps.)
  Terror Free Tomorrow
  

• 3:45 pm Counterterrorism and American Security

  Philip Mudd
  National Security Branch, FBI
  Marc Sageman (PowerPoint Presentation, PDF, 9 pps.)
  New York Police Department
  Mitchell Silber (PowerPoint Presentation, PDF, 11 pps.)
  Intelligence Division’s Analytic and Cyber Units, New York Police Department
  Ambassador Michael Sheehan
  NYU Center on Law and Security, former NYC Deputy Police Commissioner

• 5:15 pm Adjournment

Related Links

• Panelist Bios (PDF, 10 pps.)
• Event Agenda (PDF, 3 pps.)
• Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency Initiative Backgrounder (PDF)
• CCI Policy Paper: How Not to Lose Afghanistan (and Pakistan)