Intelligence and the Transition from War to Peace
A Multidisciplinary Assessment of Recently Released Documents from the CIA’s Archives
Conference at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

March 19 – 20, 2014

Chronology

• September 2013—release of the documents
• October 2013—accept proposals for scholarly papers based on the documents
• January 2014—registration for the conference; open to academia and the government communities
• Mid February 2014—submit drafts of scholarly papers (to enable finalization of the organization of the conference)
• March 19-20, 2014—conference at JMU
• Summer/Fall 2014—publication of a book with the best of the papers; Lexington (imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) is already committed to publish the book

Themes

• How hard it is to make the transition from war to peace.
• This transition is multidimensional in nature (political, military, economic, etc.)
• How intelligence can (or cannot) help in these dimensions.
• The Dayton Peace Accords serve as an illustration.
• What are the lessons to be learned for current and future conflicts?

Dimensions that scholars from JMU and other universities will cover

• Diplomatic
• Moral dimension of foreign policy
• US foreign policy decision making
• The Dutch peacekeepers and the Srebrenica massacre
• Support to the military
• Conflict resolution
• Protecting the Muslim community in the Balkans
• Was the CIA any better than the press or academia in understanding what was going on?

Invited guest speakers who were participants in the events of the 1990s

• Jan Lodal, former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
• Ljubica Acevska, former ambassador from Macedonia
• David Morris, Major General, US Army (retired), former US Special Forces Command

Contact

Dr. Tim Walton, waltontr@jmu.edu