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HISF 2017 Panel – Climate Change

Masashi Nishihara (president, Research Institute for Peace and Security), Dale Ross (mayor, City of Georgetown, Texas) and Admiral Paul Zukunft (commandant, United States Coast Guard) discuss the security implications of climate change. This is the final plenary session of the 2017 Halifax International Security Forum. (November 19, 2017)
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HISF 2017 Panel – Rebuilding the Middle East

Falah Mustafa Bakir, head of the foreign relations deparmtment for the Kurdistan Regional Government, and Tzipi Livni, former Israeli minister of justice and of foreign affairs, discuss rebuilding the Middle East peace process. This is the seventh plenary session of the 2017 Halifax International Security Forum. (November 19, 2017)
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HISF 2017 – Eric Schmidt Discusses AI, Online Extremism and Fake News

Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet, sits down with Jonathan Tepperman, vice-chair of the Halifax International Security Forum's board, to discuss the growth of the artificial intelligence sector and what tech companies are doing to tackle online extremism and fake news. This conversation takes place during the 2017 Halifax International Security Forum. (November 18, 2017)
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HISF 2017 – Abdullah Abdullah Discusses Progress in Afghanistan

Abdullah Abdullah, chief executive of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, sits down with Robin Shepard, senior advisor with the Halifax International Security Forum, to discuss the political and economic progress being made in Afghanistan. This conversation takes place during the 2017 Halifax International Security Forum. (November 18, 2017)
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HISF 2017 Panel – The Race in Space

Theresa Hitchens (senior research scholar, University of Maryland School of Public Policy), General John Hyten (commander, United States Strategic Command), Julie Perkins (chief engineer, Boeing) and Rajeswari Rajagopalan (Observer Research Foundation) discuss military space policy and the potential for an arms race in space. This is the sixth plenary session of the 2017 Halifax International Security Forum. (November 18, 2017)
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HISF 2017 Panel – Rapprochement with Russia

Pavlo Klimkin (Ukraine's foreign affairs minister), Antoni Macierewicz (Poland's national defence minister), Vladimir Milov (Institute of Energy Policy) and Jeanne Shaheen (U.S. Democratic Senator) discuss U.S.-Russia relations and the global fear of a new cold war.This is the fifth plenary session of the 2017 Halifax International Security Forum. (November 18, 2017)
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HISF 2017 Panel – Making Peace with Women

Fauziya Ali (Women In International Security Kenya), pastor Esther Ibanga (Women without Walls Initiative), Tawakkol Karman (Women Journalists Without Chains), Nancy Lindborg (United States Institute of Peace), Jeanne Shaheen (U.S. Democratic Senator), and General Jonathan Vance (Chief of the Defence Staff, Canadian Armed Forces) discuss the role of women in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. This is the fourth plenary session of the 2017 Halifax International Security Forum. (November 18, 2017)
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HISF 2017 Panel – Weaponizing Capital: China's One Belt, One Road project

General Bryan Fenton (deputy commander, United States Pacific Command), Edward Luce (Financial Times) and Richard Spencer (secretary of the United States Navy) discuss China's push to take a larger role in global affairs and attract more investment and trade. This is the third plenary session of the 2017 Halifax International Security Forum. (November 18, 2017)
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HISF 2017 Panel – Nukes: The Fire and the Fury

General John Hyten (commander, United States Strategic Command), Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins (Brookings Institution), Sung-han Kim (Ilmin International Relations Institute, Korea University) and Moshe Ya'alon ((former Israeli defense minister) discuss the continuing threat of a nuclear war. This is the second plenary session of the 2017 Halifax International Security Forum. (November 18, 2017)
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HISF 2017 - Values and Principles of Democracy

Jane Harman (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), Kay Bailey Hutchison (U.S. Ambassador to NATO), Margaret MacMillan (University of Toronto) and Constanze Stelzenmüller (Brookings Institution) discuss the values and principles of democracy in the modern world. This is the first plenary session of the 2017 Halifax International Security Forum. (November 17, 2017)