Center for Preventive Action "Flashpoints" Roundtable Series

Director: Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
November 2007 - Present

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.

This series is made possible by the generous support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Meetings

Roundtable Meeting

Insecurity in Syria

Speaker: Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, United Nations Deparment of Political Affairs
Presider: Micah Zenko, Council on Foreign Relations
January 27, 2012
Roundtable Meeting

Turning Tides: Recent Developments in the South China Sea

Speakers: Robert M. Scher, U.S. Department of Defense
Joshua Kurlantzick, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign Relations
October 4, 2011
Roundtable Meeting

Stemming the Rising Tide of Violence in Mexico

Speakers: David A. Shirk, University of San Diego
Andrew D. Selee, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Presider: Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign Relations
May 25, 2011

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