Brookings Iraq Series Briefing: 'Mounting Concerns in Iraq; Street Fighting, Humanitarian Distress, Military and Civilian Casualties' 3/26/2003
From: Brookings Office of Communications, 202-797-6105, communications@brookings.edu or http://www.brookings.edu/comm/events/20030327.htm. News Advisory: WHEN: Thursday, March 27, 9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. WHERE: Falk Auditorium The Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, D.C. WHO: ROBERTA COHEN Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings; Co-Director, Brookings-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement STEPHEN HESS Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings KENNETH M. POLLACK Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings SHIBLEY TELHAMI Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings; Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland JAMES B. STEINBERG (Moderator) Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings In addition to mapping out a war strategy, the Bush administration and the coalition face significant, related challenges: concerns over military and civilian deaths and the humanitarian situation. Several United Nations agencies are preparing what could become the largest relief effort in history. A panel of experts will address these issues as well as worldwide reaction to a war being fought before a global television audience. News organizations have grappled with questions of how certain aspects of the war should be covered, including the video of American prisoners of war. Brookings scholar Stephen Hess, a expert on the media, will assess the current debate over television coverage, including the issue of "embedded" reporters. In addition to an analysis of this week's developments by Iraq expert Kenneth Pollack, Shibley Telhami, the author of a recent study of Arab attitudes toward U.S. engagement in Iraq, will gauge reaction from the Arab world, and Roberta Cohen, an expert on humanitarian and refugee issues, will assess the current situation. FOR TRANSCRIPTS OF RECENT BROOKING IRAQ SERIES BRIEFINGS, GO TO http://www.BROOKINGS.EDU AND CLICK "NEWS AND EVENTS." To RSVP: Please contact the Brookings Office of Communications by calling 202/797-6105, emailing to communications@brookings.edu, or visiting us online at http://www.brookings.edu/comm/events/20030327.htm. The Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 http:///www.brookings.edu |