Dialogue Sustained:
The Multilevel Peace Process and the Dartmouth Conference

by James Voorhees
Co-published with the Kettering Foundation

The U.S. Institute of Peace and the Kettering Foundation cordially invite you to a Russia–U.S. dialogue on strengthening the Russian--U.S. relationship.

Six veterans of the Dartmouth Conference, the longest continuous bilateral dialogue between American and Soviet/Russian citizen will lead a Russia–U.S. dialogue on such issues as:

  • Where is the Russian–U.S. relationship headed?
  • What steps by the citizens of the two countries are needed to strengthen the relationship?
  • How does the work of the Dartmouth Conference continue, both in the form of task forces such as the nine-year-old "Inter-Tajik Dialogue within the Framework of the Dartmouth Conference," and in the form of citizensí associations seeking to learn how they can engage in building democratic and peaceful relationships?

Featuring

  • Vitaly Zhurkin
    founding Director, now emeritus, of the Institute of Europe
  • Nikolai Shmelev
    Director of the Institute of Europe
  • Sergei Rogov
    Director of the Institute of USA and Canada Studies
  • Landrum Bolling
    Consultant to international humanitarian organizations
  • William D. Rogers
    Senior Partner, Arnold & Porter, International Law Practice
  • Harold Saunders
    Director of International Affairs, Kettering Foundation and former Assistant Secretary of State.

Opening remarks by Institute President Richard Solomon and Kettering Foundation President David Mathews.

Moderated by Harold Saunders, Director of International Affairs, Kettering Foundation.

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