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Roundtable on Partnering for Peace: a Unified Field Approach for the New Millennium

Roundtable on Partnering for Peace: A Unified Field Approach for the New Millennium

Director: Allan Gerson
December 1, 1998 - December 31, 1999

This roundtable reviewed the dilemmas of peace building through an examination, in particular, of events in Bosnia, West Bank/Gaza, and Mozambique. It analyzed the efforts being made at the United Nations under Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and at the World Bank under President James D. Wolfensohn. Drawing on this analysis, it recommended creation of a new entity—a Peace Transitions Council—to engage the United Nations, the World Bank, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector in coordination of functions and implementation of strategy. If successful, resurgence of popular and governmental support for relief, reconstruction, and creation of "civil" societies could be expected. The product was a report submitted to the World Bank in April 2000.

Meetings

Study Group Meeting

The Role of the Private Sector and NGOs in War to Peace Transitions II

Presiders: Louis Perlmutter, Senior Partner, Lazard Freres
Stephen J. Friedman, Debevoise & Plimpton
Speaker: Allan Gerson
July 21, 1999

Study Group Meeting

The Role of the Private Sector and NGOs in War to Peace Transitions

Presiders: Stephen J. Friedman
Louis Perlmutter
Speaker: Allan Gerson
March 10, 1999

Study Group Meeting

Preliminary Session: High -level U.N.-World Bank Officials

Presider: Allan Gerson
December 10, 1998

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