8:00 – 9:00

Registration and Breakfast

9:00 – 9:20

Welcome and Introduction

Nancy Lindborg, President, U.S. Institute of Peace
Stephen J. Hadley, Chair, U.S. Institute of Peace Board of Directors

9:30 – 10:00

A Conversation with Secretary of State John Kerry
Moderator: Judy Woodruff, Anchor & Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 – 11:45

Discussion I: The Three National Security Priorities for the Next Administration

Madeleine Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas)
Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council
Admiral James Stavridis (ret.), Dean of Fletcher School, Tufts Univ.
Moderator: Martha Raddatz, Chief Global Affairs Correspondent, ABC News

11:45 – 12:15

America’s National Security Transition: Passing the Baton

Ambassador Susan Rice, National Security Advisor

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn (ret.), National Security Advisor Designate

12:30 – 1:45

Networking Lunch

2:00 – 2:30

Peace Talks

“How We Build Peace”
Sarhang Hamasaeed, Director of Middle East Programs, U.S. Institute of Peace

“Rethinking the Roots of Populism”
Arthur Brooks,  President, American Enterprise Institute

2:30 – 3:45

Discussion II: Unpredictable Instability: Managing the New Normal

3:45 – 4:15

Coffee break

4:15 – 4:45

A Conversation with Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina)
Moderator: Nancy Lindborg, President, U.S. Institute of Peace

4:45 – 6:00

Discussion III: America’s Role in the World

Michèle Flournoy, President, Center for a New American Security
Stephen J. Hadley, Chair, U.S. Institute of Peace Board of Directors
KT McFarland, Deputy National Security Advisor Designate
Jacob Sullivan, Marvin R. Flug Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Moderator: Susan Glasser, Founding Editor, Politico Magazine

6:00 – 6:15

Closing