Feb. 5, 2002

Rabin Chair Forum Feb. 25

Trachtenberg, Gerson Scheduled to Appear

University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and Allan Gerson, research professor of international relations, will share their thoughts on “State-Sponsored Terrorism: Fashioning New Responses” at the Woodrow Wilson Center on Feb. 25 beginning at 3:30 pm. The forum will be chaired by Walter Reich, GW’s Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics, and Human Behavior.

“The events of Sept. 11 were catastrophic,” Reich says. “But they weren’t, at their core, new. They employed no new technology and were planned and carried out by persons and organizations that had carried out terrorist actions against the United States in the past. We’ve not planned and mobilized the resources needed.”

Trachtenberg, a professor of public administration, will comment on the social and national consequences of this new age of terrorist threat and response. Gerson, who also is co-director of the Institute for Peace Building and Development, will discuss what lessons should have been learned — but weren’t — from past terrorist incidents.

The Wilson Center is located in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. This forum will take place at the Flom Auditorium on the sixth floor. Photo identification is required to enter the Reagan Building.

 

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