Retired U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey and The Washington Post’s Dana Priest to speak on campus April 12

Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, former chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Dana Priest, Washington Post reporter, will speak at the University of North Carolina on April 12, in the Genome Sciences Building room 100 at 5:30 p.m.

Peter Feaver — Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, and a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University — will moderate the discussion covering a broad range of topics from military reform to civil-military relations to current events.

The event is free and open to the public on a general admission basis.

Dempsey was the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, serving as adviser to the president, secretary of defense and the National Security Council. During his 40 years in the U.S. Army, he has served during times of war and peace at every level, from platoon leader to combatant commander.

Priest, the John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, has been a reporter at The Washington Post for more than 30 years. She has won two Pulitzer Prizes for revelations regarding secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe and for exposing deplorable conditions at the Army’s Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Feaver served as special advisor for strategic planning and institutional reform on the National Security Council Staff from June 2005 to July 2007. He was the director for defense policy and arms control on the National Security Council in 1993-1994.

The event is sponsored by the UNC-TISS National Security Fellowship Program. It is co-sponsored by the UNC Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense; the Triangle Institute for Security Studies; and the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Akin.