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SUMMARY:The Conversation America Needs: Civility\, Bipartisanship\, and America's Standing in the World
DESCRIPTION:Location\nYour Home! (GoToWebinar) \nVirtual Meeting URL: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1939475151830286347\n \nDescription\n\n\n\nJoin General Wesley Clark and Governor Larry Hogan for a townhall discussion moderated by Rob Quirk on the need for more unity and bipartisanship in our national politics and foreign policy. General Clark and Governor Hogan will discuss the renewed commitment to civics\, civility and citizenship that is needed to resolve political differences and address the major issues that face America\, especially in foreign policy\, national security\, and world affairs. \nPresented By \n                  \n\n\n \n \nAbout Our Speakers \n \nGeneral Wesley Clark\nRetired General of the United States Army \nGeneral Wesley K. Clark (ret.) is a businessman\, educator\, writer and commentator. \nGeneral Clark serves as Chairman and CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates\, a strategic consulting firm; Chairman and Founder of Enverra\, Inc. a licensed investment bank; Chairman of Energy Security Partners\, LLC; as well as numerous corporate boards including BNK Petroleum and Leagold Mining.  He is active in energy\, including oil and gas\, biofuels\, electric power and batteries\, finance\, and security. During his business career he has served as an advisory\, consultant or board member of over ninety private and publicly traded companies.   In the not-for-profit space\, he is a Senior Fellow at UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations\, Director of the Atlantic Council; Founding Chair of City Year Little Rock/North Little Rock; and founder of Renew America Together.  A best-selling author\, General Clark has written four books and is a frequent contributor on TV and to newspapers. \nClark retired as a four star general after 38 years in the United States Army\, having served in his last assignments as Commander of US Southern Command and then as Commander of US European Command/ Supreme Allied Commander\, Europe. He graduated first in his class at West Point and completed degrees in Philosophy\, Politics and Economics at Oxford University (B.A. and M.A.) as a Rhodes scholar. While serving in Vietnam\, he commanded an infantry company in combat\, where he was severely wounded and evacuated home on a stretcher. He later commanded at the battalion\, brigade and division level\, and served in a number of significant staff positions\, including service as the Director\, Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5). He was the principal author of both the US National Military Strategy and Joint Vision 2010\, prescribing US warfighting for full-spectrum dominance. He also worked with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in the Dayton Peace Process\, where he helped write and negotiate significant portions of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement. In his final assignment as Supreme Allied Commander Europe he led NATO forces to victory in Operation Allied Force\, a 78-day air campaign\, backed by ground invasion planning and a diplomatic process\, saving 1.5 million Albanians from ethnic cleansing. \nHis awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom\, Defense Distinguished Service Medal (five awards)\, Silver star\, bronze star\, purple heart\, honorary knighthoods from the British and Dutch governments\, and numerous other awards from other governments\, including award of Commander of the Legion of Honor (France). He has also been awarded the Department of State Distinguished Service Award and numerous honorary doctorates and civilian honors. \n\n \nGovernor Larry Hogan\nGovernor of the State of Maryland \nMaryland Governor Larry Hogan is not a career politician. He spent nearly his entire career as a small businessman. Fed up with high taxes\, politics as usual\, and decades of a one-party monopoly\, he started Change Maryland\, the largest non-partisan grassroots citizen organization in state history. In 2014\, out-numbered in party registration by more than 2-1\, and outspent by more than 5-1\, Governor Hogan pulled off the biggest upset in America to become only the second Republican Governor elected in Maryland in 50 years. \nGovernor Hogan quickly got to work and set an example for the nation\, accomplishing what many believed was no longer possible: reaching across the aisle\, and working together to achieve real bipartisan\, common sense solutions. He eliminated the $5.1 billion deficit and cut taxes four years in a row. Under his leadership\, Maryland produced one of the greatest economic turnarounds of any state in the nation. Governor Hogan also accomplished innovative health care solutions and made historic investments in education\, transportation infrastructure\, and in protecting the environment. \nAfter four years of economic success and bipartisan progress – in one of the bluest states in America – Governor Hogan was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2018 to a second term\, making him only the second Republican to do so in the entire 243 year history of the state. His cross-party appeal is evident in polls\, which consistently shows an overwhelming majority of all Republicans\, Democrats and Independents – nearly 80% of all Marylanders – approve of the job he is doing\, which is the highest of any governor in Maryland history. He recently served as Chairman of the National Governors Association\, leading the nation’s governors during the COVID-19 pandemic. National rankings consistently show Governor Hogan as one of the most popular governors in America. \n\n\nAbout Our Moderator \n \nRob Quirk\nAnchor/Moderator \nRob Quirk is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist. He has been the primary weeknight news anchor at News5 for nearly 30 years. Rob says that he is honored and humbled to have been able to bring the most important stories of the day to our News5 viewers\, to act as an advocate for them\, and work with them\, in developing a partnership and relationship that has kept News5 the number one source of news for all of Southern Colorado. \nHe has been involved with the production and reporting of many important and historic stories and events across Southern Colorado since 1989. His anchoring\, reporting and producing have won numerous awards with the Colorado Broadcasters Association and the Associated Press. Including a one-on-one interview with President Obama at the White House\, the Waldo Canyon and Black Forest wildfires\, summer of 2013 flash flooding\, the Aurora theater massacre\, Columbine\, and the federal trial of Oklahoma City bombing suspect\, Timothy McVeigh. \nRob is also very involved in numerous causes across Southern Colorado that are very close to his heart\, most notably\, the Multiple Sclerosis Society Walks in Colorado Springs and Pueblo\, which have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for those families struggling with M-S. \nRob was awarded Broadcast Citizen of the Year\, in 2000\, by the Colorado Broadcasters Association\, for all of his volunteer and community service work. \nRob is a graduate of Arizona State University. He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife of nearly 35 years\, Jackie. They have two daughters\, Molly and Alison. Rob is originally from Lockport\, New York\, and is the 4th of 9 children. \nRob is very active outside the newsroom. Enjoying the beautiful trails and mountain vistas of Colorado. Hiking\, skiing and golf are some of his recreational passions. Also a big sports fan\, Rob follows our Colorado College Tiger hockey\, and all Air Force Falcon sports.
URL:https://globalcincinnati.org/event/the-conversation-america-needs-civility-bipartisanship-and-americas-standing-in-the-world/
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SUMMARY:Global Dialogue | A Conversation With Hon. Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman\, Kurdistan Regional Government Representative to the United States of America
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nGlobal Dialogue Webinar Series\nA Conversation With\nHon. Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman\nKurdistan Regional Government Representative to the United States of America\n\n \n\nand host\nPatrick Ryan\nFounding President\, TNWAC\n \n\n  \nJoin us for this conversation with the Kurdistan Regional Government Representative to the U.S.\, Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman\, a great friend of the Tennessee World Affairs Council and homeland connection to the thousands of Iraqi Kurds who call Nashville home as new Americans. TNWAC thanks her for her previous programs with the Council including hosting our visiting student groups in Washington\, D.C. \n*** \nThere is a Kurdish proverb\, “No friends but the mountains\,” that captures the sense of what the Kurds face as an ethnic group living across several international borders in the Middle East. The Kurds living in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq have suffered at the hands of the Saddam Hussein government — enduring genocidal campaigns — and attacks from the Islamic State Caliphate. \nAt the end of the Operation Desert Storm\, when a U.S.-led military coalition reversed Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait\, he turned his army on the Kurds in the north and the Shia minority in the south. The Kurds were being driven into the mountains. Here is how Madam Abdul Rahman described it during a 2016 program with TNWAC and Lipscomb University: \nSaddam turned his weapons on us because he had by then been thrown out of Kuwait\, and he committed terrible crimes during that period of the uprising. And this was just a couple of years after the chemical bombardment of Halabja\, where five thousand people were killed\, and the Anfal genocide campaign\, where two hundred fifty thousand people were killed. \nSo when Saddam turned against the Kurdish people everybody thought he would use chemicals again. Everyone fled. They fled to the borders of Iran and Turkey. This was in the spring of 1991\, an incredibly cold spring\, severe weather conditions. People died on the mountaintops. People starved. They died of exhaustion and exposure. \nThe United States\, Britain\, France launched Operation Provide Comfort. It was the biggest military and humanitarian operation\, and probably the most successful in history. I’ve met some of the military leaders\, American military leaders who were involved in that operation\, General Jim Jones\, General Bob Barrow\, General Jay Garner\, and others who were involved in that operation\, and they all speak of that operation with great pride because they saved lives. They saved hundreds of thousands if not one and a half million lives. \n[Complete remarks here] \nThe United States went on to enforce a UN “No Fly Zone” that prevented Saddam from persecuting the Iraqi Kurds and allowing the Kurdistan Region to develop as an autonomous area. The 2003 invasion of Iraq permanently eliminated the threat from Saddam. In recent years the Kurds were again beset by the ominous threat posed by the Islamic State. The remarkably brave Peshmerga fighters of Kurdistan stood against ISIS with American and other coalition troops and support joining in the campaign. We commend to your reading the remarks of Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman during her April 2016 program in Nashville. \nThe KRG enjoys a special relationship with the United States. The Kurdish people have been reliable partners\, seeking democracy and independence and looking to the West for partners. \nWe invite you to talk with Madam Abdul Rahman in this special program. \n*** \n \nRemarks from 2016 Visit \n  \nBayan Sami Abdul Rahman \nKurdistan Regional Government Representative to the United States \nBayan Sami Abdul Rahman is the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Representative to the United States of America. \nKey to her role are strengthening ties between Kurdistan and the United States\, advocating her government’s position on a wide array of political\, security\, humanitarian\, economic\, and cultural matters and promoting coordination and partnership. Prior to her US appointment in 2015\, Ms. Abdul Rahman was the High Representative to the United Kingdom. She was elected to the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 2010. \nBefore her career in public service\, Ms. Abdul Rahman worked as a journalist for 17 years. She began her career on local newspapers in London and won the Observer Newspaper’s Farzad Bazoft Memorial Prize in 1993\, which led her to work at The Observer and later at the Financial Times. She worked for the FT in Britain and in Japan\, where she was Tokyo Correspondent. \nHer late father\, Sami Abdul Rahman\, was a veteran of the Kurdish freedom movement\, joining the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1963 and playing a critical leadership role in the Kurdish and Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein’s regime. He held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government and General Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Sami Abdul Rahman was killed alongside his elder son Salah and 96 others in a twin suicide bombing in 2004. \nMs. Abdul Rahman was born in Baghdad. Her family briefly lived in Iran in the mid-1970s before moving to Britain in 1976. She is a history graduate from London University. \nSPONSOR THIS PROGRAM! \nWe invite businesses\, organizations and individuals to sponsor this event. It is through your support that we are able to bring quality global affairs programs to the community. \nYou can enroll for sponsorship through the Eventbrite ticketing below. For information about sponsoring other programs and series of events contact Patrick Ryan\, TNWAC President @ 931-261-2353\, pat@tnwac.org \nSponsorship at the $250.00 level accords you with recognition in program materials — web site\, newsletters and social media — and with acknowledgement at the program start\, as well as admission to the program. Thank you for your support. \nTHANKS TO OUR PARTNERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS AWARENESS AND EDUCATION OUTREACH
URL:https://globalcincinnati.org/event/global-dialogue-kurdistan-gov-rep-abdul-rahman/
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