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| Director: | Barnett R. Rubin, New York University |
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| Chairs: | 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: | Jane 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 |
Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report
provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.
For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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