2012 Presentations (Communicative Events)

The Future of Conflict . . . and Everything Else

Kilcullen, David

Each summer, the Hertog Global Strategy Initiative in the Department of History at Columbia University brings renowned experts and policy makers to Columbia University to deliver weekly public lectures and work with students in the program. The topic of the summer 2012 lecture series is "The History and Future of Religious Violence and Apocalyptic Movements." Dr. David Kilcullen is a non-resident senior fellow and former senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. The founding president and CEO of Caerus Associates LLC, a strategic design consultancy with a focus on the overlapping problems of conflict, climate change, energy, health, and governance, Dr. Kilcullen also serves as an advisor to NATO and a consultant to the U.S. and allied governments, international institutions, industry and NGOs, in conflict and post-conflict environments and the developing world. He is also an adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.