Reuben Brigety

Organization: 
Center for American Progress
Position: 
Director, Sustainable Security Program
Areas of Expertise: 
law and ethics of warfare, international humanitarian assistance, civilian protections in armed conflict, Human Rights, Crisis Management

Reuben Brigety (DC): Director, Sustainable Security Program, Center for American Progress; Author, Ethics, Technology and the American Way of War (2007); Former Special Assistant, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development; formerly served on Human Rights Watch missions in Afghanistan in 2002; need for talks with more moderate Taliban, multiple motivations for insurgents' fighting