Ziad Asali, President of the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP), spoke at several panels at the Sixty-first Annual Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder, held from April 6 --10. On April 6, Dr. Asali joined a panel discussing "Middle East: An Integrated Strategy for Peace," with Joseph Cirincione, President of the Ploughshares Fund, Egyptian social scientist and activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Martin Indyk, Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Asali stressed the overriding American national interest in an end of conflict in the Middle East based on two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace.