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| Staff: | Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Director: | Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action |
| Advisory Board: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program Peter Ackerman, Managing Director, Rockport Capital, Inc. Dr. Patrick M. Byrne, Overstock.com The Honorable Antonia Handler Chayes, Conflict Management Group Joachim Gfoeller, Jr., GMG Capital Partners, L.P. Dr. David A. Hamburg, Cornell University Medical College John G. Heimann, Financial Stability Institute General George A. Joulwan, USA (Ret.), One Team, Inc. Dr. Jane E. Holl Lute, United Nations DPO Vincent A. Mai, AEA Investors LLC Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, New York University Robert G. Wilmers, Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. James D. Zirin, Sidley Austin, LLP |
January 1, 1994 - Present
Subprojects
December 1, 1994—January 1, 2000
| Director: | Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, New York University |
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| Chairs: | Dr. David A. Hamburg, Cornell University Medical College Richard C. Leone |
This annual event surveys the past year’s lessons in conflict prevention, promotes discussion and coordination among those involved, and introduces the idea of preventive action to key U.S. constituencies, represented in part by the Council membership. The keynote speaker for this year’s conference was George Soros. The day-long event addressed four topics: (1) assistance to civil society as a tool of conflict prevention; (2) curbing the proliferation and trafficking of small arms and light weapons; (3) the failure of early warning in Kosovo; and (4) financial crises and the escalation of conflict. The conference was held at the Council’s New York office on December 11, 1998.
January 1, 1996—March 1, 1999
| Directors: | Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, New York University Peter M. Lewis |
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| Chair: | Pearl T. Robinson |
Nigeria has recently undergone sudden changes in leadership and is now struggling to consolidate the gains from the return to elected government. Nonetheless, ethnic, religious, and regional tensions as well as economic malaise continue to contribute to the potential for conflict. Due to Nigeria’s dominant position in West Africa and its vast oil reserves, an eruption of conflict would have substantial regional and international repercussions.
CPA’s Project on Nigeria concentrates on the role of Nigerian civil society in preventing conflict and pressing for sustainable democratic reform. CPA sent a study mission to Nigeria in January 1997 to evaluate developments in civil society and identify opportunities for partnerships between organizations in the United States and Nigeria. Drawing on both the mission and subsequent meetings, the Nigeria project recently released the third volume of CPA’s Preventive Action Reports, Stabilizing Nigeria: Sanctions, Incentives, and Support for Civil Society (1998).
| Directors: | Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, New York University Dr. David A. Hamburg, Cornell University Medical College |
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As the name implies, Lessons Learned examines past conflict situations in an effort to understand why events occurred and how lessons from those experiences can be applied to current or future events.
August 1, 2001—December 9, 2002
| Chair: | Edward C. Meyer |
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| Staff: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program The Honorable Morton I. Abramowitz, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation |
During the 1990s, nowhere was the virus of militant ethnic nationalism more deadly than in the Balkans. America and its allies ultimately played an indispensable role stopping atrocities and creating conditions for sustainable peace; now, after a decade of extensive involvement, the international community is looking to wind down its commitment in the region. The Center for Preventive Action, a conflict prevention initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations, formed this Independent Task Force to develop tangible and practical recommendations to put the Balkan states irreversibly on the path toward integration with Europe, and to allow the international community to reduce its presence in an orderly fashion by 2010. The key recommendations include: first, the European Union take the lead on the Balkans, but American leadership and partnership is still needed to ensure that U.S. interests—particularly in the areas of military reform and the combatting of organized politico-criminal syndicates that undermine regional and even global security—are safeguarded. Second, shift the priorities of international and local actors toward the standards of the European Union and NATO accession plans, and the use of conditionality—“carrots and sticks”—by the international community to achieve its priorities. Third, increase investment and trade in the Balkans through banking-sector reform, privatization of state- or publicly owned corporations, private-sector development, and legislative and judicial action on property rights. The Task Force included senior experts on the Balkans and U.S. foreign policy from a cross-section of think tanks, government, the military, international organizations, academia, and the business community.
August 1, 2002—May 1, 2003
| Director: | David L. Phillips, Executive Director, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity |
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| Chair: | Dennis C. Blair, Former Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Command |
April 1, 2003—June 30, 2004
| Chairs: | Daniel William Christman John G. Heimann, Financial Stability Institute |
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| Staff: | Julia E. Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies |
December 1, 2003—February 1, 2004
| Director: | David L. Phillips, Executive Director, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity |
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April 1, 2003—Present
| Director: | Uffe Ellemann-Jensen |
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The Conflict Assessment Forum is an analytic tool for evaluating pre-conflict or conflict conditions and highlighting countries or regions to be targeted by CPA’s preventive action commissions.
July 2004—July 2005
| Staff: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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| Director: | Mona K. Sutphen, Foreign Service Officer, National Security Council 1991 to 2000 |
May 2004—April 2005
| Director: | David L. Phillips, Executive Director, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity |
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June 2004—June 2005
| Staff: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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June 2005—Present
| Chair: | Vincent A. Mai, AEA Investors LLC |
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| Director: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
| Chair: | Frank G. Wisner, External Affairs, AIG Inc. |
July 2005—March 2006
| Director: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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| Author: | Barnett R. Rubin |
November 2005—November 2006
| Directors: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program Julia E. Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies |
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| Author: | Richard Lapper |
November 2005—March 2006
| Director: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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| Author: | Blair A. King |
April 17, 2006—October 1, 2007
| Staff: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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The Potential Conflict Roundtable, quarterly events sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, convenes experts from government, private sector, nongovernmental, and civil society to analyze weak or fragile regions and states at risk of conflict in the next two to five years and to devise approaches to work with practitioners to build early policy responses to address those situations.
Identifying "hot" conflicts around the world is relatively straightforward. A more difficult task is identifying the situations, or "warm" spots, where there is high-risk of deterioration of political, economic and social conditions but not yet a digression into active social chaos, inter-community polarization, state collapse, and/or violent conflict. Greater effort at monitoring and assessing these incipient conflicts and worst-case scenarios in the coming two to five years is sorely needed. It is in these situations that preventive action initiatives can make a real difference.
While practitioners understand that preventive policies and actions have the greatest chance of reversing deteriorating situations when implemented early and swiftly, a wide gap persists in connecting early warning systems to early policy responses. To help fill this gap, conflict prevention efforts need to engage politicians and practitioners to assist with and promote the formulation and implementation of early responses to potential conflicts.
April 2006—February 2007
| Directors: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program Julia E. Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies |
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| Author: | Eduardo A. Gamarra |
April 2006—December 2006
| Staff: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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| Author: | Terrence Lyons, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University |
December 2006—Novemer 2007
| Director: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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| Author: | Reuben E. Brigety |
A major task of early warning of violent conflict is to understand the linkage between political, economic, and social sources and triggers of violence and larger, systemic issues that consistently contribute to unrest. One such dynamic is the international proliferation and trade, licit and illicit, in small arms and light weapons (SALW). This forthcoming report will review the current state of the global SALW problem, examine the U.S. policies for tackling the problem, and then propose tangible, realistic steps for the United States to address SALW proliferation and misuse as a form of systemic conflict prevention.
November 2006—April 2007
| Director: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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| Author: | Robert I. Rotberg |
May 2007—Present
| Director: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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| Author: | Michelle D. Gavin, Adjunct Fellow for Africa |
This forthcoming report will survey the current situation in Zimbabwe, identifying current structural and legal impediments to economic and political recovery. It will argue that the time to develop post-Mugabe plans is now, and will then develop policy prescriptions for encouraging a transition, containing turmoil in the midst of change, and establishing structures that will contribute to long-term growth and stability in southern Africa.
November 2007—Present
| Director: | Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action |
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The meeting series focuses attention on situations that are increasingly discernible as "flashpoints" for violent conflict. At each on the record meeting, experts from government, private sector, and nongovernmental communities present different perspectives on and address discrete elements of the problem. The goal of the "Flashpoints" series is to raise public awareness of potentially explosive places and to offer practical recommendations for preventive action in the discussed state or region.
November 2007—Present
| Director: | Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action |
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This series consists of quarterly events sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, convenes experts from government, private sector, nongovernmental, and civil society to analyze weak or fragile regions and states at risk of conflict in the next two to five years and to devise approaches to work with practitioners to build early policy responses to address those situations.
December 10, 2007—Special One-Day Symposium
| Director: | Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action |
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Timed with the tenth anniversary of the release of the final report of the widely regarded Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the symposium, titled "The Future of Conflict Prevention," assessed what we -- the United States, UN, and international community -- have and have not accomplished in terms of conflict prevention (theory and practice) over the last decade, and looked forward to new challenges and requirements for successful preventive action.
Publications
December 5, 2007
Richard C. Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, The Council on Foreign Relations
Richard C. Holbrooke, the architect of the Dayton Accords that ended the Bosnia war, says Russia’s uncooperative attitude in Kosovo combined with western inaction could spark renewed conflict.
October 2007
| Author: | Michelle D. Gavin, Adjunct Fellow for Africa |
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Council Special Report No. 31
Since 2000, President Robert Mugabe’s refusal to tolerate challenges to his power has led him to systematically dismantle the workings of Zimbabwe’s economic and political systems, replacing them with structures of corruption, intimidation, and repression. Michelle D. Gavin surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe, identifying current structural and legal impediments to economic and political recovery.
May 2007
This report argues that Angola deserves priority attention in the formulation of U.S. foreign, national security, and economic policies, particularly in the design of policy toward Africa.
April 2007
| Author: | Robert I. Rotberg |
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Council Special Report No. 27
This report describes what steps might be taken by Nigerians and the international community to avoid a breakdown of democracy, and possibly stability, in the wake of Nigeria’s April 2007 electoral contest and to tackle Nigeria’s fundamental challenges of governance, security, and development in the longer term.
February 2007
| Author: | Eduardo A. Gamarra |
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Council Special Report No. 24
This report encourages the U.S. government to redirect its policy toward Bolivia from “wait and see” to one with an emphasis on conflict prevention and preserving the democratic process in order to address the nation’s many challenges. This report is also available in Spanish.
December 2006
| Author: | Terrence Lyons, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University |
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Council Special Report No. 21
This report presents a full picture of what is going on in the Horn of Africa and suggests what the United States needs to do to address the multiple challenges to stability.
November 2006
| Author: | Richard Lapper |
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Council Special Report No. 20
With polls showing Chávez strongly in the lead in the December 3, 2006, Venezuelan presidential election, the United States needs to prepare for another six-year term with the controversial leader. This report proposes a new strategic framework for U.S. policy toward Venezuela. This report is also available in Spanish.
April 2006
| Author: | Blair A. King |
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Council Special Report No. 14
This report urges the Indonesia Government to follow through with its commitments to achieve a comprehensive solution to the conflict in Papua by engaging with legitimate representatives of Papuan society, fully implementing special autonomy, improving local governance, and reforming security arrangements.
April 2006
| Author: | Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, New York University |
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Council Special Report No. 12
This Council Special Report argues that Afghanistan is still far from stability and that the United States should take the lead in ensuring full funding and implementation of the Afghanistan Compact, and develop a coherent strategy toward the Afghanistan-Pakistan relationship. This report is also available in Spanish.
November 9, 2005
| Author: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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September 2005
Task Force Report No. 55
This Council-sponsored, independent Task Force points out that nation-building is not just a humanitarian concern, but a critical national security priority that should be on par with war-fighting and urges the United States to equalize the importance of the two. The report argues that the United States must acknowledge that “war-fighting has two important dimensions: winning the war and winning the peace.”
June 2005
| Authors: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program Amelia Branczik |
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Council Special Report No. 8
This report identifies the principal steps that the United States can take to secure the investment it has made in the western Balkans and facilitate the region’s progress toward its rightful destiny within the EU. In doing so, Forgotten Intervention? lays out a straightforward and doable strategy for the United States that will pay dividends.
April 2005
| Author: | David L. Phillips, Executive Director, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity |
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Council Special Report No. 6
This report identifies the principle issues to be addressed in Iraq’s constitution. It recommends power-sharing arrangements between Iraq’s national government and federal Iraqi state governments. It proposes a role for the United States and the United Nations to play in this process, and suggests ways the Iraqi government can encourage cooperation with Iraq’s neighbors.
May 2004
| Author: | Catherine E. Dalpino |
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Council Special Report No. 2
This Council Special Report assesses the political, economic, and strategic situation in the Philippines following the 2004 elections and recommends steps that the United States and the Philippines should take to strengthen their economic and military ties. As a victim of terrorism and the strongest supporter of U.S. counterterrorism policy among the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Philippines already plays a vital role in preserving American security. With anti-Americanism on the rise in South Korea and Japan, the United States may need to depend more on the Philippines to fulfill its objectives in Asia.
March 26, 2004
| Author: | David L. Phillips, Executive Director, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity |
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January 2004
| Author: | David L. Phillips, Executive Director, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity |
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Council Special Report No. 1
Georgia is strategically important to the United States in the war on terror and an indispensable transit point for energy supplies between Asia and Europe. Though the country’s November 2003 “revolution of roses” is the most positive event to have occurred in the countries of the former Soviet Union in more than a decade, Georgia is entering an unstable period of transition as its new government tries to promote national coherence among the country’s ethnic groups and takes steps to dismantle the corrupt power structure that thrived under former president Eduard Shevardnadze. This timely report, written by an expert on conflict prevention in the Caucasus, recommends steps the United States and the international community can to take to bolster President Mikhail Saakashvili as well as moves his government should make in the short and long term.
January 2004
The United States spends approximately $700 million per year in the Andean region, but this Commission report concludes that current U.S. policy—focused narrowly on “drugs and thugs” in the Andes—cannot achieve U.S. regional goals of democracy, prosperity, and security. Andes 2020 offers bold new recommendations to recalibrate U.S. policy to better meet its objectives.
May 7, 2003
Papua, a remote and impoverished yet resource-rich Indonesian province, is at risk of a descent into conflict that would likely destabilize the entire country. According to this report from commission Indonesia and Southeast Asia experts, Indonesia’s central government can avoid conflict in Papua by giving it greater self-governance and a stake in the development of its vast natural wealth.
April 15, 2003
| Authors: | Rachel Bronson, Former Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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December 2002
Despite years of involvement by the United States and its allies, the Balkans region is suffering from economic stagnation and high unemployment; hundreds of thousands of refugees still await resettlement; prominent war criminals remain at large; and political and legal reform is impeded by endemic corruption, organized crime, and in some cases, a lack of political will. Yet after a decade of extensive involvement and peacemaking in the Balkans, the United States and its allies are winding down their commitment to the region. At this critical juncture, warns this independent Task Force report, if the problems besieging the Balkan states are left unresolved, they will lead to serious social and economic instability for southeastern Europe.
May 12, 2002
| Author: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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May 10, 2002
| Author: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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January 2001
This Center for Preventive Action report emerged from a workshop that gathered scholars and practitioners to examine the issue of early warning and conflict prevention.
December 1999
This report assesses the potential for conflict in Central Asia through the prism of one of its most volatile areas, the Ferghana Valley.
January 1998
| Authors: | Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, New York University Pearl T. Robinson Peter M. Lewis |
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To investigate Nigeria and consider various strategies to meet iproblems the country is currently facing, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Preventive Action (CPA) established a working group on Nigeria.
June 1998
| Author: | Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, New York University |
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This conference volume is the second book in CPA's series of Preventive Action Reports. It uses CPA's case studies to examine the effectiveness of the tools of preventive action, and draws on comparative studies to guide the analysis of the case studies.
June 1995
| Author: | Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, New York University |
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This report, the first in a series on conflict prevention by the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations, presents recommendations to avert the spread of the ex-Yugoslav conflict into the South Balkans and to create a more enduring framework for peace and security in the region.
Meetings
Potential Conflict Roundtable Series: Managing Global Insecurity-International Cooperation on Civil Violence and Regional Conflict
Related Projects: Potential Conflict Roundtable Series, Center for Preventive Action
| Presider: | Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speakers: | Bruce Jones, Senior Fellow and Co-Director, Center for International Cooperation, New York University |
| Carlos B. Pascual, Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Insitution | |
| Stephen J. Stedman, Professor and Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University |
Africa Policy Studies Roundtable: Angola's Democratic Challenge-Preparations for Parliamentary Elections
Related Projects: Africa Policy Studies Roundtable, Center for Preventive Action
| Presider: | Jamie Ekern, Assistant Director, Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speakers: | Her Excellency Josefina Pitra Diakite, Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Angola |
| Alcides Sakala Simões, Member of Parliament and President of UNITA Parliamentary Group, National Assembly of the Republic of Angola |
The Race for Resources: Conflict in the 21st Century
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Speakers: | Leon S. Fuerth, Shapiro Professor of International Affairs, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University |
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| Paul J. Kern, Senior Counselor, The Cohen Group | |
| David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations, Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University | |
| Presider: | Paul B. Stares, Gen. John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention; Director, Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations |
Concerns are increasing about the consequences of global climate change, rising consumption rates, and population growth on the availability of natural resources, including water, land, forests, oil, gas, and a variety of minerals. In the face of scarcity, are we likely to see a rise in violent conflict over valuable resources? Or is the probability of 'resource wars' much less than feared? Join our speakers to discuss these issues at a meeting cosponsored with the Council’s Center for Preventive Action.
Transcript: The Race for Resources: Conflict in the 21st Century [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]
Potential Conflict Roundtable Series: The Future of Bangladesh
Related Projects: Potential Conflict Roundtable Series, Center for Preventive Action
| Presider: | Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Sumit Ganguly, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University |
Center for Preventive Action "Flashpoints" Roundtable Series: Independence for Kosovo? Managing the Consequences
Related Projects: Center for Preventive Action "Flashpoints" Roundtable Series, Pieter A. Fisher European Studies Roundtable, Center for Preventive Action
| Presider: | Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speakers: | Janusz Bugajski, Director, CSIS Eastern Europe Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies |
| Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow forf Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations | |
| Daniel P. Serwer, Director, Peace Operations, U.S. Institute of Peace | |
| Dimitri K. Simes, President, The Nixon Center |
A joint meeting of the Center for Preventive Action and European Studies Program
Potential Conflict Roundtable Series: Consolidating the Peace in DRC - The Challenge of Eastern Congo
Related Projects: Potential Conflict Roundtable Series, Center for Preventive Action
| Presider: | Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speakers: | Severine Autesserre, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College |
| Thomas Turner, Country Specialist, Democratic Republic of Congo, Amnesty International USA (DC) |
In the Wake of War: Improving U.S. Post-Conflict Capabilities
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Speakers: | William L. Nash, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action; Project Director, Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on “In the Wake of War: Improving U.S. Post-Conflict Capabilities”, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Dan Caldwell, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Pepperdine University |
12:00-1:45 p.m. Lunch
6:00-8:15 p.m. Dinner
This session is part of the “Iraq: The Way Forward” series.
Post-Conflict Capabilities
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Speakers: | William L. Nash |
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| Irina A. Faskianos |
U.S. Post-Conflict Capabilities
Related Projects: Center for Preventive Action, Center for Preventive Action
| Panelist: | Peter D. Bell, President and CEO, CARE USA; Member, Task Force on U.S. Post-Conflict Capabilities |
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| Speaker: | William L. Nash, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director, Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations |
Post-conflict Reconstruction
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Panelist: | James D. Bindenagel, Vice President for Programs, Chicago Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | William L. Nash, John W. Vessey Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations |
Security and Reconstruction in Iraq: First-Hand Reflections
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Panelist: | Monica D. Toft, Assistant Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
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| Speaker: | William L. Nash, John W. Vessey Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations |
Rebuilding Iraq
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Panelist: | Michael P. Peters, Executive Vice President, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | William L. Nash, John W. Vessey Fellow and Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations |
Balkans 2010 (San Francisco)
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Panelist: | Jock P. Covey, Principal Vice President of External Affairs, Bechtel Corporation |
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| Speaker: | William L. Nash |
Balkans 2010 (Los Angeles)
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Panelist: | Jane Olson, Co-Founder and Chair, Human Rights Watch-California; Board Chair, Landmine Survivors Network |
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| Speaker: | William L. Nash |
Prospects for Democratization in Serbia
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Presider: | Wendy W. Luers |
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| Speaker: | Vesna Panic, Civic Alliance of Serbia |
Working Group on the South Balkans
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Presider: | Seymour Topping |
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South Balkans Working Group
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Presider: | Dr. Barnett R. Rubin |
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| Speaker: | Ljubomir Frckoski, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Macedonia |
Update from Macedonia
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Presider: | Dr. Barnett R. Rubin |
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| Speaker: | Ljubomir Frckoski, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Macedonia |
International Commission on the Balkans
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Presider: | Seymour Topping |
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| Speakers: | Dana Allin, Aspen Institute Berlin |
| Bronislaw Geremek, Parliament of the Republic of Poland | |
| John Roper, Chatham House | |
| Simone Veil, Former Minister of State, France | |
| Jacques Rupnik, National Foundation for Political Science | |
| Leo Tindemans, European Parliament |
Preventing Conflict in the South Balkans (Press Conference)
Related Project: Center for Preventive Action
| Presider: | Seymour Topping |
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| Speakers: | Steven L. Burg, Brandeis University |
| Janie Leatherman, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies | |
| David L. Phillips, European Centre for Common Ground/Peace Research Center, Oslo |
News Releases
June 25, 2008
November 8, 2007
November 7, 2007
| Author: | Michelle D. Gavin, Adjunct Fellow for Africa |
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May 7, 2007
“Few African countries are more important to U.S. interests than Angola. The second-largest oil producer in Africa, Angola’s success or failure in transitioning from nearly thirty years of war toward peace and democracy has implications for the stability of the U.S. oil supply as well as the stability of central and southern Africa,” finds a Council-sponsored Independent Commission in a report produced by the Center for Preventive Action, Toward an Angola Strategy: Prioritizing U.S.-Angola Relations.
April 4, 2007
“For policymakers everywhere, Nigeria should be the central African question. No country’s fate is so decisive for the continent. No other country across a range of issues has the power so thoroughly to shape outcomes elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. If Nigeria works well, so might Africa. If the democratic experiment in Nigeria stalls, and development and governance stagnate, the rest of Africa suffers and loses hope,” concludes a new Council Special Report.
February 20, 2007
“Washington’s reaction to [Evo] Morales’ election, policies, and rhetoric has been to ‘wait and see,’” says a new Council Special Report. “Yet after nearly nine months in office, the Morales administration’s policy agenda has taken shape and, unfortunately, has exacerbated political, ethnic, and racial schisms in Bolivian society.”
December 14, 2006
Conflict in the Horn of Africa is escalating rapidly as power struggles within Somalia are exacerbated by military support that both Ethiopia and Eritrea give to the opposing parties there. Ethiopia backs the weak interim government; Eritrea sponsors the Islamic militants fighting to overthrow it. Because the United States has accused Somalia of harboring al-Qaeda suspects, “the Ethiopian-Eritrean proxy conflict increases the opportunities for terrorist infiltration of the Horn and East Africa and for ignition of a larger regional conflict,” warns a new Council Special Report.
November 27, 2006
“Chávez’s bark...is far worse than his bite,” says a new Council Special Report, which urges U.S. officials to “look beyond his blustery rhetoric…as long as Chávez does not take steps that fundamentally threaten essential U.S. interests in Latin America.” With polls showing Chávez strongly in the lead in the upcoming December 3 Venezuelan presidential election, the United States needs to prepare for another six-year term with the controversial leader.
April 19, 2006
Recent deadly clashes between Papuans and Indonesian police, protests against an American copper and gold mining company, and Australia’s controversial granting of asylum to a group of Papuan refugees have brought the issue of autonomy for the remote province of Papua to international attention.
April 10, 2006
Stabilization and reconstruction operations in Afghanistan have been overshadowed by developments in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, says the report, Afghanistan’s Uncertain Transition From Turmoil to Normalcy , by Afghanistan expert and New York University Professor Barnett R. Rubin.
July 27, 2005
June 30, 2005
May 11, 2004
May 6, 2003
This Council Special Report, authored by Mona Yacoubian and Scott Lasensky
and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, makes a strong case that
the Bush administration’s policy of diplomatic isolation of Syria is not
serving U.S. interests, and offers informed history and thoughtful analysis
of the country and its external behavior.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
For more information on the CPA, contact:
Paul Stares
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention
and Director, Center for Preventive Action
+1-202-518-3461
Jamie Ekern
Assistant Director
+1-202-518-3463
Alex Noyes
Research Associate
+1-212-434-9744
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
Complete list of CFR Books.
