Starr Forum: Attack of the Drones

November 13, 2012 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

A discussion about ethical, legal and strategic implications of UAV use

About the Speakers:
Rabia Mehmood is a Lahore based correspondent and producer for the Pakistani television network Express and for the International Herald Tribune. She has covered the survivors and victims of terrorist attacks, suicide bombings and hostage sieges carried out by militants in Lahore. She was a 2010-2011 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies. 

J. Bryan Hehir is Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and former acting Dean of the Harvard Divinity School. His research and writing focus on ethics and foreign policy and the role of religion in world politics and in American society. His writings include: "The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change; Military Intervention and National Sovereignty.

Barry R. Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT, Director of the MIT Security Studies Program, and serves on the Executive Committee of Seminar XXI. 

Moderator: 
Kenneth A. Oye is Director of the MIT Program on Emerging Technologies and holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in Political Science and Engineering Systems. His writings include Cooperation under Anarchy, Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange, and books on Carter, Reagan and Bush foreign policy.

Co-sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies and The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT

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Free & open to the public | Refreshments served