Archive: Terrorism - Commonwealth Club

Terrorism: Online Feature

The events of September 11, 2001 ushered in a new era of uncertainty in America. Air travel now lacks any pretence to efficiency or nonchalance; newspapers dwell on Al Qaeda and the threat of mass destruction; and we're at war…a war against terrorism that promises to be as arduous and complex as it is ambitious.

Historical Audio Archives
Post-9/11 Community Forums
Related Links

FROM THE ARCHIVE

For historical background on terrorism, the Middle East and Afghanistan, choose a speaker from our archive.

Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi
Arab League Commissioner of Information
Peace Making in the Middle East [11-05-01]
Transcript | Audio

Maleeha Lodhi
Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S.
Pakistan in the New Century [02-27-01]
Transcript

Mavis Leno
Chair, The Feminist Majority's Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid
Buried Alive: The Women of Afghanistan [04-04-99]
Transcript | Audio

Benjamin Barber
Author, Jihad vs. McWorld
Can Democracy Survive McWorld? [01-30-96]
Audio

Brian Michael Jenkins
Senior Managing Director, Kroll Associates
Trends in Terrorism, Crime and Violence [11-07-96]
Transcript | Audio

Laurie Garrett
Author, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Coming Plague [02-14-95]
Transcript

Brian Michael Jenkins
Senior Managing Director, Kroll Associates
Crime and Violence after the Cold War [08-20-93]
Transcript | Audio

Hon. Abdusattar Shalizi
Director General of Labor for Afghanistan
Afghanistan--Key Country of the Middle East [01-25-52]
Audio

Liaquat Ali Khan
First Prime Minister of Pakistan
Pakistan and the Western World [05-16-50]
Audio

POST-9/11 COMMUNITY FORUMS

Immediately following September 11, The Commonwealth Club hosted a series of community forums to encourage public dialogue during a time of national crisis and anxiety.

Future Security Threats & Capabilities Forum [10-29-01]

Jason Pate, Senior Analyst and Manager, Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Project, Monterey Institute of International Studies

Margaret Sullivan, Former Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Defense

Watson Laetsch, member, Board of Governors, The Commonwealth Club; moderator

Intelligence Gathering Forum [10-15-01]

Andre Le Gallo, former National Intelligence Officer for Counterterrorism, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

Alexander Their, former UN Officer in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Watson Laetsch, member, Board of Governors, The Commonwealth Club; moderator

Community Safety and Security Forum [9-28-01]

Lucien Canton, Director, SF Office of Emergency Services

Amy E. Smithson, Director, Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project, Henry L. Stimson Center

Harold Brooks, CEO, American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter

Eve Hinman, President, Hinman Consulting Engineers

Gloria Duffy, CEO, The Commonwealth Club; moderator

Community Terrorism Forum [9-17-01]

Public Attendees

Gloria Duffy, Club CEO and former Pentagon official, moderator

RELATED LINKS

Bay Area Public Radio Station KQED Coverage
For continuing programming on the domestic and international consequences of 9/11, including an archive of news programs.

Monterey Institute Center for Nonproliferation Studies
A clearinghouse of "information and analysis to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction."

Global Security Institute
Another organization interested in protecting global security, this one founded by the late Senator Alan Cranston.

Americans and the World
Offers comprehensive public opinion analysis of issues of international concern.

National Security Archive
For online readers on Terrorism, Intelligence and the Next War.

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