Please join the New America Foundation Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative for an on-the-record breakfast discussion with Thomas Ruttig and Matt Waldman on the prospects for reconciliation with the Taliban and how this process might fit within the Afghan political, social, and cultural context. Ruttig has spent over 20 years researching, writing on, and traveling throughout Afghanistan, speaks both Dari and Pashto, and is one of the world's leading experts on Afghanistan. Waldman spent several years in Afghanistan with Oxfam International, and has interviewed dozens of Taliban commanders as part of his work on reconciliation efforts between the Taliban and the Afghan government. He is the author of the just-released United States Institute of Peace report, Dangerous Liaisons with the Afghan Taliban: The Feasibility and Risks of Negotiations.