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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Roundtable Meeting
Renewed Conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Speakers: Thomas de Waal, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Svante Cornell, Johns Hopkins University
Joseph Presel, Former U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan
Presider: Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign Relations
May 4, 2011
Roundtable Meeting
Instability and Conflict in the DRC
Speakers: Severine Autesserre, Columbia University
John Marks, National Endowment for Democracy
Presider: Micah Zenko, Council on Foreign Relations
March 25, 2011
Roundtable Meeting
A Conversation with the Government of South Sudan
Speaker: Pagan Amum Okiech, Minister for Peace and Comprehensive Peace Agreement Implementation, Government of South Sudan; Secretary General, Sudan People's Liberation Movement; Chief Negotiator on North/South Issues
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
November 17, 2010
Roundtable Meeting
Renewed Conflict in Lebanon
Speakers: Daniel C. Kurtzer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Robert Malley, International Crisis Group
Presider: Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign Relations
September 15, 2010
Roundtable Meeting
A New intifada? Assessing the Likelihood of Renewed Israeli-Palestinian Violence
Speakers: Gad Goldstein, Brookings Institution
Jonathan Schanzer, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Presider: Elliott Abrams, Council on Foreign Relations
March 25, 2010
Roundtable Meeting
Succession Crisis in Nigeria
Speakers: John Campbell, Council on Foreign Relations
Peter M. Lewis, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Presider: Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign Relations
January 22, 2010
Roundtable Meeting
Yemen: The Risks Ahead
Speakers: April Longley Alley, Research Associate, National Defense University
Gregory Johnsen, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
Presider: Paul B. Stares, CFR
December 16, 2009
Roundtable Meeting
Sudan on the Brink
Speaker: Alex de Waal, Havard University
Presider: Paul B. Stares, CFR
December 10, 2009
Roundtable Meeting
Conflict over Kurdistan
Speakers: Lydia Khalil, Council on Foreign Relations
Steven A. Cook, Council on Foreign Relations
Qubad Jalal Talabani, Kurdistan Regional Government
Presider: Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign Relations
June 9, 2009
Roundtable Meeting
Prospects for Peace in Somalia: The Role of the UN
Speaker: Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, United Nations Representative to Somalia
Presider: Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign Relations
April 6, 2009
Roundtable Meeting
Averting Crisis in Ukraine
Speaker: Steven Pifer, Brookings Institution
Presider: Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign Relations
March 3, 2009
Roundtable Meeting
Dealing with Pakistan and its Unstable Western Border
Speakers: Donald A. Camp, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South-Central Asia, U.S. Department of State
Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations
J. Alexander Thier, Senior Rule of Law Adviser & Director, U.S. Institute of Peace
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
September 17, 2008
Roundtable Meeting
Independence for Kosovo? Managing the Consequences
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
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 Simes, President, The Nixon Center
December 14, 2007
A joint meeting of the Center for Preventive Action and European Studies Program
No One's World
The US-South Korea Alliance