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A panel discussion with SIA faculty, advisers, & alumni on Thursday, February 9, 2017, from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

As the Syrian civil war continues to drag on with no end in sight, the Penn State School of International Affairs will bring together a panel of distinguished experts to discuss what this conflict means for the Syrian people, American foreign policy in the Trump administration, and the international community at large.

Panelists will include:
• Theodore Kattouf, former U.S. Ambassador to Syria, current president and CEO of AMIDEAST, and a member of the SIA Advisory Board;
• Admiral James W. Houck, former judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy, international security scholar, and interim dean of the School of International Affairs;
• Flynt Leverett, professor of international affairs at Penn State, former Middle East analyst at the CIA, leading scholar on the economics of international security, and author of Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire;
• Rachel Sayre, SIA alumna and senior disaster specialist for Iraq and Syria at the U.S. Agency for International Development; and
• Scott Gartner, director of the Penn State School of International Affairs, who will moderate the discussion.

The event will feature a robust analysis of a conflict that has ended the lives of nearly half a million people and spurred one of the largest refugee crises in modern history. The panelists will specifically address the root causes of the conflict, the response from the United States and the international community over the past five years, the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis, and how the United States may respond to this conflict under the leadership of President Donald Trump.