Events

As Ukraine’s military advances and Putin threatens to conduct nuclear strikes, President Biden said last week: “For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons, if in fact things continue down the path they'd been going.”

Nina Khrushcheva, professor of international affairs at the New School and granddaughter of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, David Ignatius, foreign affairs columnist at The Washington Post, and Graham Allison (AB '62 PhD '68), Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, will review lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis that illuminate the challenges the US now faces and can inform the choices President Biden is now considering.

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Please join the Institute of Politics, the Future of Diplomacy Project, and Harvard Kennedy School’s Ukraine Caucus in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum for a conversation with Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, moderated by Ambassador Paula Dobriansky (PhD '91), a Senior Fellow at the Future of Diplomacy Project. Seven months into Russia’s war of aggression, Ukraine faces multiple and ever-evolving diplomatic and security challenges to protect its territorial integrity. Minister Kuleba will discuss the conditions on the ground, the country’s current humanitarian and food security situation, the critical role of the U.S. and its European allies in supporting Ukraine’s resistance efforts, and the global implications of this conflict.

This event is co-sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and the Harvard Kennedy School Ukraine Caucus.

Please register by 12:00 PM ET on Friday, September 23 if you would like the possibility of attending this event in-person. Registrants will be notified by 5:00 PM ET that day if a seat is available for them in the venue. If a seat is not available, registrants can stream the event live via our social media channels.

Please join the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship (PETR) for a JFK Jr Forum event on Brexit featuring Amanda Sloat, PETR Fellow, and Cathryn Cluver Ashbrook, PETR Executive Director. 

Former UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon (MPP ‘85) and former Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Susan Thornton, will discuss the negotiations for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula. This forum event will be moderated by Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Future of Diplomacy Project.

Cyber Security Project Director Michael Sulmeyer moderates a discussion on election hacking with CrowdStrike Inc. CEO and Co-Founder Dmitri Alperovitch, President of Verified Voting Pamela Smith, and Cyber Security Project Fellow Ben Buchanan 

An Askwith Forum at Harvard Graduate School of Education featuring Hanan Al Hroub, recipient of the 2016 Global Teacher Prize and teacher at the Samiha Khalil Secondary School in Palestine.

A panel discussion with Peter Maurer, International Committee of the Red Cross; Michael Ignatieff, Harvard Kennedy School; and Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.

Forum: "Democracy in the Middle East, Pluralism in Europe: The Turkish Perspective," Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Republic of Turkey, Institute of Politics, Caspian Studies Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Europe, Pluralism, Democracy, Middle East, Graham Allison, Islam, Justice and Development Party

Forum: "War on Terror: A Report Card," Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center; Phillip Heymann, Professor, Harvard Law School; Arnold Howitt, Executive Director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government, KSG; Juliette Kayyem, Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center; Jessica Stern, Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center; Joseph Nye, (Moderator), Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government.

April 22, 2003 Forum Event featuring Sarah Brady, chair, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence United with Million Mom March