BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:209@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20160422T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20160422T130000 DTSTAMP:20231222T084413Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/managing-global-insecur ity/ SUMMARY:Dr. Stephen Stedman on "Managing Global Insecurity" *Bev Power Memo rial Program* DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpeaker Bio:\nStephen Stedman is a Freeman Spogli senior fe llow and Deputy Director of the Center on Democracy\, Development\, and th e Rule of Law at Stanford University.\n\nIn 2011-12 Professor Stedman serv ed as the Director for the Global Commission on Elections\, Democracy\, an d Security\, a body of eminent persons tasked with developing recommendati ons on promoting and protecting the integrity of elections and internation al electoral assistance. The Commission is a joint project of the Kofi Ann an Foundation and International IDEA\, an intergovernmental organization t hat works on international democracy and electoral assistance. In 2003-04 Professor Stedman was Research Director of the United Nations High-level P anel on Threats\, Challenges and Change and was a principal drafter of the Panel’s report\, A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility. In 200 5 he served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Advisor to the Secr etary-General of the United Nations\, with responsibility for working with governments to adopt the Panel’s recommendations for strengthening coll ective security and for implementing changes within the United Nations Sec retariat\, including the creation of a Peacebuilding Support Office\, a Co unter Terrorism Task Force\, and a Policy Committee to act as a cabinet to the Secretary-General.\n\nHis most recent book\, written with Bruce Jones and Carlos Pascual\, is Power and Responsibility: Creating International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats (Washington DC: Brookings Institu tion\, 2009).\n\n \;\n\nThis program is the 2015-2016 Bev Power Memori al Program. For more information about Bev Power\, click here. \n\n\n\nThe program podcast is available through Alaska Public Media's AWAC Presents\ , click here to listen.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/wp-content/upload s/2014/12/Stedman_Steve-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Bev Power Memorial,International Program Series LOCATION:Anchorage Hilton\, 500 W 3rd Ave\, Anchorage\, Alaska\, United Sta tes GEO:61.21932160000001;-149.8918797 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=500 W 3rd Ave\, Anchorage\, Alaska\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Anchorage Hilton:geo:61 .21932160000001,-149.8918797 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anchorage X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anchorage BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20160313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0900 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:AKDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR