2023 HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM

DATE
November 17-19, 2023

LOCATION
Halifax, Nova Scotia

PARTICIPANTS
300

Friday, November 17

Sunday, November 19

Halifax International Security Forum invites subject experts with significant practical experience to volunteer their time throughout the summer months to discuss and debate ideas to be addressed head-on at Halifax in November. The guidance provided by the Agenda Working Group ensures that Halifax International Security Forum plays its part in shaping the coming year’s global security agenda.

Halifax International Security Forum is proud that the agenda presented to its participants each year is acutely relevant and reflects conversations that are happening in capitals around the world. In the cases where these issues are not yet top-of-mind for decision makers, Halifax International Security Forum is pleased to create those conversations that will gain attention and inspire international action.

Michael Auslin

Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Alyssa Ayres

Dean Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Johan Bergenas

Senior Vice President, Oceans World Wildlife Fund – US

Ian Brodie

Professor, Department of Political Science University of Calgary

Rosa Brooks

Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy Georgetown University Law Center

Shari Bryan

Founder and Managing Partner Aegean Strategies

Eva Busza

Regional Director, Eurasia Programs National Democratic Institute

Leslie Campbell

Senior Associate and Regional Director National Democratic Institute

Comfort Ero

President and CEO International Crisis Group

Dean Fealk

Managing Partner and Chair for Global Strategy & Innovation DLA Piper

John Glenn

Senior Director, International Forum for Democratic Studies National Endowment for Democracy

Jerrold Green

President and Chief Executive Officer Pacific Council on International Policy

Rachel Kleinfeld

Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

François Lafond

Advisor Expertise France

Susan Markham

Program Director, HFXX HFX

Nancy Okail

President and CEO Center for International Policy

C. Dixon Osburn

Executive Director Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Roland Paris

Director, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Ottawa

Luis Rubio

Chairman México Evalúa

Chris Sabatini

Senior Fellow for Latin America Chatham House

Paul Salem

President and Chief Executive Officer Middle East Institute

Randy Scheunemann

Strategic Counselor HFX

Janice Stein

Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Founding Director The Munk School, University of Toronto

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Director and Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Trans-Atlantic Relations, Center on the Unites States and Europe The Brookings Institution

Yun Sun

Director and Senior Fellow, China Program Stimson Center

Peter Van Praagh

President HFX

Daniel Twining

President International Republican Institute

Kurt Volker

Distinguished Fellow Center for European Policy Analysis

W. Bruce Weinrod

Adjunct Professor Georgetown University

Plenary Sessions

Make the World Safe Again: Victory in Ukraine
Victory in Ukraine = Message to the CRINKs (China/Russia/Iran/North Korea)
Victory in Ukraine = Example for Israel
Victory in Ukraine = Indo-Pacific Possibilities
Victory in Ukraine = Feeding the World
Victory in Ukraine = Allies’ Access to Innovation
Victory in Ukraine = Climate Cooperation
For as Long as it Takes: Victory in Ukraine.

Informal Sessions

(Marking its 15^th anniversary, Halifax International Security Forum is re-introducing panel titles from past years. The dates in parentheses reflect when panel titles were first introduced at the Forum.)

Ancient Antisemitism Arrives Again (2023)
AI: Awesome Initiative or Apocalypse Impending? (2017)
African Security: Where is the Next Mali? (2013)
Arctic Security in a Time of Thaw (2010)
Beyond Borders: Transnational Trafficking and Crime (2011)
Broken China: Handle With Care (2015)
Cold Weather, High Prices, Long War: Finding Our Winter Resilience (2022)
Facing the Future: Developing a Security Community in the Balkans (2010)
Fukushima Follow-Up: The Future of Nuclear Power (2011)
Germany and its Alternatives (2018)
~~Hide~~ Your Power, ~~Bide~~ Your Time: China Eyes Taiwan (2023)
Iran: What Do We Do? (2009)
Israel Is Real (2023)
Laws of War: Do They Work? (2009)
Let My People Go: Keeping Faith With Our Hostages. And Ourselves (2023)
NATO in Asia? Or a NATO for Asia? (2010)
NATO: Necessary (2016)
The Nature of Geopolitics? The Geopolitics of Nature (2023)
Never Mind the BRICS, Here’s the CRINKs (2023)
No More Loyalty Tests: A New Era for Global Democracies (2023)
O Say, Can’t You See?: The Indispensable Role of the Exceptional Superpower (2014)
Problems and Partners: The Middle East (2009)
Public Opinion: Mobilizing the Key Strategic Asset (2010)
Rapprochement With Russia: Post-Putin Prep (2017)
Sea, Sky, Space, Cyber: Secure? (2010)
Te Amo, Ammo: On Time Rearming (2023)
Tech: America’s Great Inventions, Its Enemies’ True Intentions (2018)
Terrorism: What’s Next? (2009)
Today’s Technologies, Tomorrow’s Battles and the Laws that (Try to) Govern Them (2011)
Ukraine’s Plan: Survival, Revival, Arrival (2023)

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS

Halifax International Security Forum is fortunate to benefit from supporting
organizations that contribute to its mission of promoting strategic cooperation among
the world’s democracies. The generosity of these organizations is instrumental to our
success as we pursue the common goals of building democracy, creating opportunity and
promoting peace.

Halifax International Security Forum thanks its Peace Partners: AWS and Google, as well
as its Opportunity Partners: Anduril, Apple, CADSI, CAE, MDA, Pansophico and YouTube.
In addition, the organization thanks NATO and the European Union for their support, as
well as IPSOS Public A!airs for the important services they provide.

Mohammed Abulahoum

Chairman, Justice and Building Party, Yemen

Sergio Alcocer

President, Mexican Council of Foreign Relations (COMEXI), Mexico

Masih Alinejad

Women's Rights Campaigner, My Stealthy Freedom, Iran

Frances Allen

Vice Chief of the Defence Staff, Canadian Armed Forces, Canada

Emma Anderson

Editor, POLITICO, United States

Arvydas Anušauskas

Minister of National Defence, Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence, Lithuania

James Appathurai

Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO, Belgium

James Baker

Director of the Office of Net Assessment, United States Department of Defense, United States

Falah Bakir

Special Assistant to the President of Kurdistan Region for Foreign Policy Affairs, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq

Ehud Barak

Tenth Prime Minister, Government of Israel, Israel

Koshin Bathmax

Youth Environmental Advocate, Canada, 15@15 Winner

Debbie Baxter

Lead Client Service Partner, Defence and Intelligence Cluster, Deloitte, Canada

Victoria Belbin

CEO, Atlantic Canada Aerospace and Defence Association, Canada