The SMU Tower Center presents the National Security Conference 2024 -  The United States and the UN Security Council: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead.

The United Nations Security Council authorizes military interventions by powerful states, deploys international observers and peacekeepers, imposes economic sanctions, and coordinates global counterterrorism efforts. This year’s National Security Symposium explores the UN Security Council’s unique role as a platform for great power cooperation, illuminates its potential as a tool for legitimizing and amplifying the reach of U.S. national security policy, and clarifies how growing tensions among the world’s major powers have impacted the Council’s workings.

Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024

Location and time:

2:00 – 5:30 p.m. Panels

Martha Proctor Mack Ballroom , 3300 Dyer St., Dallas, TX 75205

6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Keynote Dinner - Jones Great Hall,

Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd., Dallas, TX 75205

Parking: Binkley Garage, 3105 Binkley Ave., Dallas, TX 75205 (Accessible parking and elevator. For more accessibility questions email us at tower@smu.edu.)

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Please click below for registration. Click on each panel you plan to attend.

PROGRAM

Panels Location: Martha Proctor Mack Ballroom, Umphrey Lee Center, 3300 Dyer St, Dallas, TX 75205

1:30 - 2:00 p.m. Registration

2:00 - 3:40 p.m. Panel I - UN Security Council: Lessons Learned

Alexander Thompson, Professor of Political Science and a Senior Fellow of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University.

Stefano Recchia,  John G. Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security 

Ian Johnstone, Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Panel II - UN Security Council: Challenges Ahead

Courtney Fung, Associate Professor in the Department of Security Studies & Criminology at Macquarie University, Australia

Richard Gowan, UN Director, International Crisis Group

Katharina Coleman, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Columbia

Keynote Dinner Location: Martha Proctor Mack Ballroom, Umphrey Lee Center, 3300 Dyer St, Dallas, TX 75205

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Keynote Dinner

Jeffrey Feltman, Former UN Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs and John C. Whitehead Visiting Fellow in International Diplomacy at the Brookings Institution.

Invitation image: The Security Council Chamber at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Credit UN Photo/Rick Bajornas 02/14/2017 12:09:12 PM

Any person who requires a reasonable accommodation on the basis of a disability in order to participate in this program should contact the SMU Tower Center at tower@smu.edu in advance at least 4 days prior to the event to arrange for the accommodation.

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