U.S. Flags fly at half-staff in Bayonne, N.J.,
as smoke rises from lower Manhattan following
the collapse of both towers of the World Trade
Center in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001.
(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

The U.S. Government faces the difficult task of calculating an appropriate response to the September 11th terrorist attacks. At this program a panel of experts assessed available political, diplomatic, military and economic tools in order to:

• Understand the nature of the threat;
  
• Analyze alternative strategies of response; and
  
• Explore the consequences of alternative approaches.

Opening Remarks Richard H. Solomon

   President, U.S. Institute of Peace

Luncheon Address

  L. Paul Bremer III

  Managing Director, MMC Enterprise Risk Security for the 21st Century

Panel 1: "The Threat … Properly Understood"

  Daniel Benjamin

  Center for Strategic & International Studies

  Jerrold Post

   Political Psychologist & Author, Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred

Panel 2: "Strategies of Response…What Can be Done"

  Bruce Hoffman

  Director, Washington Office, RAND Corporation

  H. Allen Holmes

   Counter-terrorism Expert

Panel 3: "Consequences"

  Martha Crenshaw

  John E. Andrus Professor of Government, Wesleyan University

  Shibley Telhami

  Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace & Development, University of Maryland

Overview and Wrap-up

  Richard Solomon

  President, U.S. Institute of Peace