Prospects for Peace in Northern Uganda is the second in a series of events sponsored by ENOUGH, a new joint initiative of the Center for American Progress and International Crisis Group. By synthesizing targeted field research and political analysis with high-level advocacy and grassroots activism, ENOUGH aims to end ongoing crimes against humanity in Darfur, northern Uganda and eastern Congo, and to prevent mass atrocity crimes from occurring in the future.

Today's meeting is co-sponsored with the United States Institute of Peace. USIP is an independent, nonpartisan institution created and funded by Congress. It works to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and increase peacebuilding capacity.

The event will also mark the release of a new report, "Contain and Engage: A New Strategy for Countering the Nuclear Crisis with Iran," authored by American Progress experts Joseph Cirincione and Andrew Grotto. Grotto will open the event with a briefing on the study.

The CAP study details a new strategy to both "Contain and Engage" Iran. Iran has to choose between continual confrontation or a new relationship with the west, based on the technical realities of Iran's program, Iran's political culture, and the relative bargaining power of the United States, its partners, and Iran.

An electronic version of the new CAP study will be available for download on Wednesday from www.americanprogress.org.

In this inaugural event for the Globalization and the Social Compact series at the Center for American Progress, please join us as Rep. Sander Levin shares his views about globalization and trade, and how progressives can use trade policy as a means to structure globalization most effectively.

Maxed Out shows how the modern financial industry really works, explains the true definition of "preferred customer" and tells us why the poor are getting poorer and the rich getting richer. By turns hilarious and profoundly disturbing, Maxed Out paints a picture of a national nightmare which is all too real for most of us. Maxed Out won critical acclaim at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas in March, and Simon & Schuster plans to publish a memoir based on Director James Scurlock's interviews and travels during the making of the film next year. Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post, calls Maxed Out a "riveting examination of America's debt problem." Sally Foster of Film Threat says that "Maxed Out is a skillful intertwining of facts, interviews and vignettes, ultimately coming together to form a picture of our country's current financial state."

Please join us for a provocative panel discussion and Q&A session immediately following the film.

In the March 15th issue of The New York Review of Books, Jason Epstein, founder of the publication says, "Cirincione writes as a seasoned Washington observer...his invaluable new book...ought to be read by everyone as a matter of life and death."

Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, says that Bomb Scare is "Succinct and smart, informed by insight drawn from long experience, Bomb Scare is the best one-volume examination of the history and challenges of the nuclear arms race yet written."

Robert Gallucci, Dean of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, says Bomb Scare is "a compact, balanced, and wise treatment of an issue that is of critical importance to our security."

One year after historic marches put a human face on the issue of immigration reform, our country’s immigration system remains fundamentally broken. Faith communities across the country are on the front lines in dealing with the daily consequences of an unjust system that causes undue suffering and hardship to the people they serve. Because of their experience and moral commitment, many faith communities are working for comprehensive immigration reform. As the issue returns to the forefront of the congressional agenda, the Center for American Progress has gathered faith leaders from diverse communities to discuss their work and the moral imperative that fuels their mission. Together, they are committed to a just and comprehensive solution to immigration reform.

Founded by Executive Producer Brent Hoff and novelist Dave Eggers as a new offering from McSweeney's, Wholphin debuted in an audio visual edition of The Believer magazine. Wholphin is now a quarterly DVD magazine featuring short films, documentaries, animation, and instructional videos that have not, for whatever reason, found wide release. Recent issues of Wholphin have included films by Spike Jonze, David O. Russell, Miranda July, Miguel Arteta, Errol Morris, and Steven Soderbergh, and performances from John C. Reilly, Selma Blair, Patton Oswalt, Andy Richter, a monkey-faced eel, and many others.

McSweeney’s began in 1998 as a literary journal, edited by Dave Eggers, that published only works rejected by other magazines. Today, McSweeney’s has grown to be one of the country’s best-read and widely-circulated literary journals, a book publisher of over thirty-five titles, including Nick Hornby’s Songbook, What is the What by Dave Eggers, and William T. Vollmann’s 3,300-page treatise on violence, Rising Up and Rising Down and the publisher of The Believer literary magazine and Wholphin. Please join us for a screening of select Wholphin films and a discussion with Wholphin founder and Executive Producer Brent Hoff.

"The Erosion of Rights" reveals exactly how civil rights enforcement by the executive branch over the last six years has fallen into a dangerous state of disrepair where the focus has turned to "reverse discrimination" rather than clear patterns and practices of discrimination against African Americans and other racial minorities. The panel of experts will discuss the critical civil rights issues in voting, education, housing, immigration, and communications policies and share recommendations on how to strengthen civil rights enforcement and put the nation back on track in reclaiming the promise of equal opportunity for all.

One of the most exciting breakthroughs occurred last year when Colombia's Constitutional Court declared that a total abortion ban violated international human rights norms and therefore the Colombian Constitution.

Join us for a discussion with two leaders at the forefront of these efforts to learn about recent developments in this field.

Yet, this program is set to expire and Congress is currently contemplating funding to continue SCHIP. To inform this debate, Senator Tom Daschle of the Center for American Progress will moderate a discussion on children's health coverage between two renowned health care leaders, Chairman John Dingell and Senator Gordon Smith. This conversation will focus on the impact of SCHIP, larger questions on children's health coverage and the uninsured, and challenges related to SCHIP reauthorization.

How do Congress and the executive branch strike a proper balance between the congressional need to have such information and the government's duty to protect it? What options does Congress have when the government refuses to provide the information it requests? When is it appropriate for Congress to make national security information available to the public and the press?

Please join the Center for American Progress and OpenTheGovernment.org for an address by The Honorable Jane Harman (D-CA), Chair of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information-Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment and former Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who will discuss the importance of national security information to Congress and current efforts by the Administration to resist providing it.

Following Rep. Harman's remarks, a distinguished panel of experts will examine the means by which Congress obtains and makes use of national security information in performing its oversight and investigative functions.