Potential Conflict 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
This series consists of quarterly events sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, convenes experts from government, private sector, nongovernmental, and civil society to analyze weak or fragile regions and states at risk of conflict in the next two to five years and to devise approaches to work with practitioners to build early policy responses to address those situations.
Meetings
Roundtable Meeting
The Warning-Response Problem
Speaker:
Christoph Meyer, King's College LondonDiscussant:
Ken Knight, National Intelligence CouncilPresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Egypt on the Brink?
Speakers:
Steven A. Cook, Council on Foreign Relations, Steven Heydemann, U.S. Institute of PeacePresider:
Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Kyrgyzstan
Presider:
Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Charles F. Dambach, President and CEO, Alliance for Peacebuilding, Michael S. Lund, Management Systems InternationalThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Roundtable Meeting
The Future of Bangladesh
Presider:
Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Sumit Ganguly, Professor of Political Science, Indiana UniversityThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Consolidating the Peace in DRC: The Challenge of Eastern Congo
Presider:
Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Severine Autesserre, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Thomas Turner, Country Specialist, Democratic Republic of Congo, Amnesty International USA (DC)This meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Guinea
Presider:
Major General William L. Nash, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action, The Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
South-Central Asia
Presider:
Major General William L. Nash, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action, The Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Barnett R. Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, New York UniversityThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Beyond Iraq: Sources and Solutions to Conflict on the Arabian Peninsula
Speaker:
Rachel Bronson, Council on Foreign RelationsPresider:
Major General William L. NashThis meeting is not for attribution.
CFR Experts Guide
The Council on Foreign Relations' David Rockefeller Studies Program—CFR's "think tank"—is home to more than seventy full-time, adjunct, and visiting scholars and practitioners (called "fellows"). Their expertise covers the world's major regions as well as the critical issues shaping today's global agenda.
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