For those in the D.C. area, The George Washington University Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting are hosting a fascinating event on Monday.  Details below:

Afghanistan: The Human Factor

Monday February 22, 2010
1957 E Street NW, Lindner Family Commons (Room 602)

Introductions:
Sean Aday, Director, Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication, GW

Jon Sawyer, Executive Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Panelists:
Vanessa Gezari, Washington-based writer; forthcoming book assesses the U.S. military’s Human Terrain program, which embeds social scientists and anthropologists with troops in Afghanistan

Jason Motlagh, freelance multimedia journalist; reporting focused on civilian casualties with on-the-scene accounts of the aftermath of coalition attacks in western Afghanistan last summer

Nir Rosen, freelance writer, photographer, and filmmaker; reporting contending the results in Iraq were less than advertised and likely to be worse in Afghanistan

To RSVP, email ipdgc@gwu.edu

Filed under: events, military by admin on February 19, 2010 | Social tagging: Afghanistan > Human Terrain Systems