The Santa Fe World Affairs Forum aims to broaden and deepen understanding of world affairs through small, interactive, professionally led sessions on international issues for a membership of informed individuals.
Programs and Webinars
Fulbright, Peace Corps and Higher Education: America’s Global Smart Power Under Assault, How Best to Respond
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from 12:00 noon – 2 pm
Kevin Quigley
Kevin Quigley is former college president of Marlboro College where he led its merger with Emerson College. As president of the National Peace Corps Association, he led the national campaign resulting in the Peace Corps’ largest appropriation increase in history. He has been a three-time Fulbright Senior Specialist and a Fulbright Association board member and was the first executive director of the Global Alliance for Workers and Communities, where he pioneered a tri-sectoral partnership among global corporations, governments, and civil society organizations designed to improve global workplace conditions.
He is co-founding editor of Fulbright Chronicles, a global, independent, peer- reviewed journal by and for Fulbrighters (www.fulbright-chronicles.com); and with his wife, Susan Flaherty, founded the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation www.peacecorpscommemorative.org), now a Peace Corps community effort to build the Peace Corps Park near the National Mall as a testament to the historic and enduring importance of service and international understanding in the United States’ engagement with the world.
He has extensive teaching and publishing experience on international service, democratization, and higher education issues. Quigley has served on various university boards, including the New England Board of Education, American University of Nigeria, American University of Afghanistan, Parami University (Myanmar), and Swarthmore College. He has degrees from Georgetown University, Columbia University, University College Dublin, and Swarthmore College.
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Afghanistan in the Aftermath Series
“The Intent and Reality of Foreign Assistance to Afghanistan: Experience from Obama’s Surge ” – March 9, 2022
Rebecca Black
“Afghanistan’s Cycle of Historical Repetition ” – March 2, 2022
Paul Cruickshank
“Taliban In Afghanistan: A Review Six Months Since Take-Over ” – February 16, 2022
Dr. Emile Nakhleh
“Union Humanitarian Aid in Afghanistan: before and after the US withdrawal ” – February 09, 2022
Raffaella Iodice
PAST SYMPOSIUM 2019
Thursday April 11 and Friday April 12, 2019
America’s Place in the World – Still Indispensable?
Annual Symposium 2024
America’s Place in the World – Still Indispensable?
Cosponsored by the Santa Fe Community College
Jemez Rooms at Santa Fe Community College (SFCC)
Santa Fe, New Mexico
To register for the 2024 Symposium, please email sfwaforum@outlook.com with names of registrants, days attending and whether paying by check to SFWAF and mailed to: The Santa Fe World Affairs Forum PO Box 31965, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87594. To pay by Paypal or credit card please use our website at https://sfwaf.org/payment
Thursday April 25 and Friday April 26, 2024
Summary
Is American influence waning? Is the United States stretched too thin? Or is the US still the world’s indispensable nation? Can it be both? If so, for how much longer? How stable – at home and abroad – is American democracy and US leadership? Or is it being irreparably eroded from within and without?
What can we do to address our deepest fears or are mountains being made out of mole hills? Is the threat of war expanding beyond the current conflicts that could draw in the US militarily real? Would an international provocation tip the delicate balance of the containment policy employed by the Biden administration? How would US policy, its effectiveness and the American image abroad change if a conservative Republican were elected to the White House in 2024? This year the Santa Fe World Affairs Forum will take a deep dive into the questions of American international influence as the global order rests on increasingly shaky pillars. Can the US still retain its democratic form of government and compete in this increasingly complex and troubled world? Is so how? Speakers
Eric Rubin, US Ambassador (rtd) to Bulgaria and former president of the American Foreign Service Association;
Siegfried Hecker former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and current professor of practice at Texas A&M University and at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA;
Dr Emile Nakhleh Former Senior Intelligence Service (SIS) Officer (CIA), former Research Professor and Director, GNSPI (UNM), Founding Director, Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program (CIA), Founding Director (rtd), Global and National Security Policy Institute (University of New Mexico);
John Herbst. US Ambassador (rtd) to Uzbekistan and Ukraine, and Director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council;
William Itoh, US Ambassador (rtd) to Thailand and former Executive Secretary of the National Security Council. Professor of the Practice in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Senior Advisor to McLarty Associates, an international business consulting firm;
Dr Nicholas Cull, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Global Communication Policy Fellow, Center Leadership and Policy;
Chair, University and college student panel
Mark Asquino, US Ambassador (rtd) to the
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