15 Events

Several officials meet at FEMA's National Response Coordination Center to discuss the ongoing fight against the coronavirus.

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Seminar - Open to the Public

Homeland Security for the Twenty-First Century

Wed., Oct. 14, 2020 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Online

Alan Bersin and Chappell Lawson join Juliette Kayyem and the Homeland Security Project to discuss what it means to "secure the homeland" in the twenty-first century. They will share their insights from time serving in government to draw lessons from the first two decades of U.S. government efforts to secure the homeland and address some of the most salient challenges of homeland security today.

Retired New York City firefighter Joseph McCormick visits the South Pool prior to the September 11 memorial ceremony at the World Trade Center site in New York.

AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith, File

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

W3D: Virtual Session on Homeland Security with Farah Pandith and Juliette Kayyem

Thu., Sep. 24, 2020 | 10:30am - 11:30am

Online

Join W3D, in collaboration with the Future of Diplomacy Project and Diplomacy PIC, for a virtual conversation with Farah Pandith and Juliette Kayyem on the state of homeland security 19 years after 9/11. We'll discuss how homeland security has changed over that time, what new challenges it will face in the future, and more with two of the leading experts in the field! 

Please click here to RSVP for the virtual event.  Confirmed attendees will receive the Zoom link via email. 

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Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Special Online Event: Expert Working Group on Government-Tech Partnership to Track COVID-19

Fri., Apr. 17, 2020 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Online

Join the Cyber Project and the Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) as we convene tech, government, health, and policy experts in an important discussion on the federal government's efforts to work with tech companies and academia in using citizen data to track and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. 

Our main question: How do we get this right--to save lives and preserve privacy and security?

We will use this discussion to generate policy recommendations for the relevant task force working on this issue within the federal government. 

The Working Group will feature experts from Harvard Kennedy School, the Belfer Center, and MIT*

The Honorable Sue Gordon                    Eric Rosenbach

Juliette Kayyem                                         Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux

Jim Waldo                                                   Bruce Schneier

Alex Stamos                                                Kathy Pham

Robby Mook                                               Dr. Marc Zissman

Andrew McLaughlin, J.D.                       Jonathan Zittrain

*Working group still in formation.  Please see full titles of Working Group Members in tab below

Farah Pandith

Farah Pandith

Seminar - Open to the Public

Key Takeaways for How to Win Against Extremists and Why We are Failing

Thu., Sep. 26, 2019 | 4:15pm - 5:45pm

One Brattle Square - Room 350

Nearly 20 years since 9/11 and we have not vanquished the appeal of extremist ideology. Groups are still recruiting youth in every part of the world, and today a real strategy to deal with the rise of hate and extremism is not on policy agendas. Whether white supremacists or the so called Islamic State, extremists have mastered selling their narratives despite the fact that solutions to this threat are available right now.