Events
Drones and the Obama Administration
Steve Coll, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School and
reporter for the The New Yorker, will deliver a talk on the Obama
administration's use of drones. Coll will be in discussion with P. W. Singer,
Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at The
Brookings Institution, and Philip G. Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of
Law at New York University. Alston served as the UN Special Rapporteur on
extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions from 2004 to 2010. His 2010
report on targeted killings led by CIA drones was a defining critical d!
ocument against the use of drones in warfare.
The talk will be chaired by Mark Mazower, Director of the Heyman Center for the
Humanities.
The event is open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.