Al Qaeda 3.0

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
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8:45 am Registration and Arrival
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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
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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 -
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
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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)












