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Last Friday, the IRC held the first ever Georgetown Diplomacy and International Security Conference, a result of months of coordination and years of ideas being thrown around. The conference was led by coordinator Adam Giansiracusa and a small staff who put countless hours into formulating and organizing the topics and speakers that were to be covered. Focus areas varied from the human element of security and development in East Africa, to potential problems for the future in the Persian Gulf, to the effectiveness of Obama’s policy of a “Russian Reset,” to geopolitical energy and trade relations, all against the background of security studies. The panels were stacked with high ranking government officials, NGO representatives, think tank members, Georgetown professors, and more. The quality of the discussion and debate was evident in every panel, as participants were universally impressed.

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On Friday, March 19^th, over 20 eminent policy experts from around Washington DC will join nearly 300 students at the Georgetown Hotel and Conference Center for a keynote and series of panel discussions on a range of important issues in international affairs. The event, titled the Georgetown International Diplomacy and Security Conference, will run from 12:30 PM to 8 PM at night, and include an evening reception for all panelists and guests.

Following the keynote speaker, each hour block will feature two panels running concurrently. Speakers on these panels have vast practical and policy experience in their field, such as Ex-USAID Administrator Prof. Andrew Natsios (Human Dimension in East Africa), Asia-Pacific expert Prof. Robert Sutter (Future of Trade Relations in Asia-Pacific), and Locke Lord Strategies’ Mark Siegel (Islam and the West), who is Pakistan’s chief lobbyist in the United States. The panels, by hour block, are as follows:

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