Senior Fellow Cyrus Hodes invited to panel discussion by IISS & YPFP

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, 30 October, 2007-- Senior Fellow Cyrus Hodes was invited by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) to a panel discussion supported by NATO on: “Afghanistan – A Way Forward”. The panel took place at the House of Commons in London.

Moderated by Christopher Langton, IISS Senior Fellow for Conflict and Defence Diplomacy, the panel also included: Chris Riley - Strategic Director, NATO Media Operations Center; Mark Sedra - University of Waterloo; Ayesha Khan - Researcher, Cambridge University & Chatham House and Farid Popal - Embassy of Afghanistan, London.

Cyrus Hodes and Mark Sedra have co-authored IISS Adelphi Paper 391 on Afghanistan entitled “The Search for Security in Post-Taliban Afghanistan”.

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