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| Director: | Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, New York University |
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| Chairs: | Dr. David A. Hamburg, Cornell University Medical College Richard C. Leone |
December 1, 1994 - January 1, 2000
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.
Publications
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.
June 1998
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.
Meetings
Aid to Civil Society as a Tool of Conflict Prevention
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| Commentators: | Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
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| John S. Magbity, World Vision, Sierra Leone | |
| John Marks, Search for Common Ground | |
| Presider: | Vivian Lowery Derryck |
| Speakers: | Harold H. Saunders, The Kettering Foundation |
| Randa M. Slim, Slim and Associates |
Curbing the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons
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| Commentators: | Richard K. Betts, Human Rights Watch |
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| Joost Hiltermann, Columbia University | |
| Stephanie Neumann, Human Rights Watch/Africa | |
| Kathi Austin, Human Rights Watch/Africa | |
| Presider: | Marine Lieut. Gen. (ret.) Bernard E. Trainor |
| Speakers: | Lora Lumpe, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency |
| Joseph R. Smaldone |
Financial Crises and Conflict: Indonesia and Russia
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| Commentators: | Sidney R. Jones, Human Rights Watch |
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| Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign Relations | |
| Albert Fishlow, Council on Foreign Relations | |
| Ashraf Ghani, the World Bank | |
| Speakers: | Padma Desai, Columbia University |
| Jacques Bertrand, University of Toronto |
Failure of Early Warning in Kosovo
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| Commentators: | Dr. Jane E. Holl Lute, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict |
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| Howard Adelman, York University, Toronto | |
| David L. Phillips, Columbia University | |
| Anna Husarska, International Crisis Group | |
| Presider: | Andrea Bartoli, Community of St. Egidio, International Conflict Resolution, and Columbia Univerisity |
| Speakers: | Martin Lutz, Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations |
| James W. Pardew Jr., U.S. Department of State |
Keynote Address: A Conversation with George Soros
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| Presider: | General John W. Vessey, USA (Ret.) |
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| Speaker: | George Soros, Soros Fund Management |
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.
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This report outlines the nature of the challenges in Pakistan's tribal areas, formulates strategies for addressing those challenges, and distills the strategies into realistic policy proposals worthy of consideration by the incoming administration.
This report analyzes the debate over U.S. use of assurances against torture, explaining the contexts in which they are used, how they can be conveyed, and what they can contain, and recommends a number of ways to respond to criticism so that the United States can continue using assurances.
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