Chappaqua Library Foreign Policy Discussion Group

Raha Wala – “Guantanamo Weakens American National Security”

LOCATION Chappaqua Performing Arts Center

Mal Nechis Facilitator.

As Director for National Security Advocacy for Human Rights First, Guest Speaker Raha Wala develops and oversees the implementation of advocacy strategies to ensure that US counterterrorism and national security policies are carried out consistent with human rights norms. He is a recognized expert in international human rights and humanitarian law, and has worked to reform key post-9/11 counterterrorism policies, including indefinite detention and military commissions at Guantanamo; targeted killings in the U.S. drone program; “enhanced interrogation techniques” and other forms of torture or abusive interrogations; and counterterrorism war authorities, including the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF).

Raha frequently shares his expertise with policymakers in Congress and the executive branch, and has appeared regularly in major print, radio, and TV outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, National Journal, Reuters, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, CNN, MSNBC, and BBC.

Raha is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and an adjunct professor of law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.

Cosponsored by the Town of New Castle