Events & Speeches Archive

Former British Secretary of Defense Lord Desmond Browne and distinguished Russian diplomat Ambassador Igor S. Ivanov will share the second Nunn-Lugar Award for Promoting Nuclear Security. The international award was established in honor of former U.S. Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar and recognizes individuals and institutions whose work is helping to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and to reduce the risk of their use.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Nebraska), a Georgetown alumnus who co-chairs the Congressional Nuclear Security Caucus, will be joined by three of the world’s leading voices on nuclear security for a panel discussion at the university March 16. Joining Fortenberry on the panel are former Senator Sam Nunn (D-Georgia), co-chairman and CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative; former Senator Richard Lugar (R-Indiana), president, the Lugar Center; and Des Browne, former United Kingdom Defense Minister and vice chairman, Nuclear Threat Initiative.

“You are the most important people I will have the opportunity to talk to” this year, he told the crowd in Ransburg Auditorium. “You have so much ahead of you that is possible.”

INDIANAPOLIS -- Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar will headline the 2014 Bulen Symposium on American Politics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Senator Lugar delivered a speech on global food security at Purdue University on November, 11, 2014.

Learn more about the upcoming energy security roundtable. . .

"There is no prospect for world peace while people are starving." -Former Senator Richard Lugar

It is a great pleasure to join you this morning and to see so many good friends. I have long admired the work of USAID, and as a Senator I sought to support the agency’s mission in every way that I could. Upon leaving the Senate, I wanted to continue my efforts to advance global development. During the last year, I have had the opportunity to build The Lugar Center, which is devoted, in part, to advancing global food security and constructive foreign assistance reform. . .

In a wide-ranging interview Friday afternoon, former U.S. Senator Richard Lugar explained the interrelatedness of those issues and their relevance to America’s foreign policy as a preview of what the veteran Indiana lawmaker plans to say when he speaks at Wilkes University next week.

Former U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar, a professor of practice in the Indiana University School of Global and International Studies, will speak Wednesday, April 23, at IU Bloomington about the U.S. and European response to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine

The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which became law in 1992, is credited with deactivating more than 7,600 nuclear warheads that were once aimed at the United States. Now the two U.S. Senators who authored this landmark legislation, Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn, will appear together in a public conversation at UIndy Feb. 25 to talk about their work

Former Senator Lugar and former Congressman Norm Dicks discuss foreign policy leadership in Congress

Senator Lugar participated in a panel discussion at the 2013 USGLC Annual Conference: State Leaders Forum

WASHINGTON (June 20) – The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is pleased to announce the official launch of the Richard G. Lugar Institute for Diplomacy and Congress. The Lugar Diplomacy Institute will work to change the way the United States Congress relates to the international community by improving communication and understanding between the Washington diplomatic corps and Congress.

Today there is no doubt that Azerbaijan is a strategic ally, a commercial partner, and a friend of the United States. Citizens of both of our countries reap security and economic benefits from our bilateral relations, but those benefits will grow if we pursue opportunities to more deeply engage.

CSIS Korea Chair is proud to present the third in a series of Korea Platforms featuring remarks from the distinguished speakers at the annual JoongAng Ilbo-CSIS Forum which took place in Seoul on May 21. The 2013 Forum was entitled "Kim Jong-un's Gamble and the Crisis on the Korean Peninsula."

Ambassador Peter Ammon presented one of Germany’s highest honors to former Indiana Senator Richard Lugar in a ceremony at the Ambassador’s Residence on May 8. Senator Lugar received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit in honor of his work in fostering transatlantic partnership and helping make the world safer by furthering disarmament. .