{"562381":{"#nid":"562381","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Sam Nunn School Policy Forum- How Does it End and What Can We Do? Addressing the Underlying Causes of Ideological Extremism.","body":[{"value":"On behalf of former Senator Sam Nunn, I invite you to attend the 2016 Sam Nunn Bank of America Policy Forum on Thursday, September 22\u003Csup\u003End\u003C\/sup\u003E. The Policy Forum program will be held at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center located at 250 14\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30318, and will begin at 8:00 a.m. and conclude at 1:00 p.m.\u0026nbsp;The School and Senator Nunn are proud to host,\u0026nbsp; \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGen. John R. Allen, USMC (ret), Co-Director, Center for the 21\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institute and former Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003Eas the keynote speaker for this year\u2019s Forum.\u0026nbsp;The Sam Nunn School Policy Forum brings together noted academic, government, and private-sector experts on technology, public policy and international affairs to address issues of global importance in a biennial public event. The audience at the Forum numbers roughly 200 individuals from the policy, academic and business communities as well as members of the media. \u0026nbsp;This year\u2019s Forum topic is: \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHow Does it End and What Can We Do? Addressing the Underlying Causes of Ideological Extremism.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EThis Forum will examine two major issues: What are some of the underlying causes of this radicalism? What, if anything, can the United States and our friends and allies around the world do about it? For the last two decades\u003Cem\u003E, \u003C\/em\u003EUnited States security policy has been dominated by a series of crises within and emanating from the Middle East.\u0026nbsp; Nearly any conflict within this region affects at least four specific U.S. national security interests in one way or another, including: prevention of terrorist attacks on the homeland, protection of American citizens abroad, security for allies and partners, and protection of universal values.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EThe rise of ISIL has impacted every one of these security interests to some degree, and has thus elevated it within the \u201curgent\u201d space of the \u201curgent versus important\u201d terrain in policy circles.\u0026nbsp; Moreover, ISIL\u2019s activities have catalyzed nearly every source of conflict juxtaposed within the Middle East, including inter- and intra-sectarian strife, tension between rulers and ruled, violent conflict between multiple state and non-state adversaries, and clashes between tribes, ethnicities, and nations.\u0026nbsp; A Forum program listing all the participants and a registration form, should you decide to attend, will be updated and available for you at our website (\u003Ca id=\u0022LPlnk688895\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/nunnforum.inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/nunnforum.inta.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E) in the coming weeks. Please direct inquiries to: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:snforum16@inta.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Esnforum16@inta.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;We hope that you will be able to join us for this important discussion.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003EPlease share this invitation with your students and colleagues.","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This Forum will examine two major issues: What are some of the underlying causes of this radicalism? What, if anything, can the United States and our friends and allies around the world do about it?"}],"uid":"32825","created_gmt":"2016-08-12 15:13:48","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:15:09","author":"Katie Sclafani","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-09-22T09:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-09-22T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-09-22T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-09-22 13:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-09-22 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-09-22 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1297","name":"Office of International Education"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:snforum16@inta.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Esnforum16@inta.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}