Potential Conflict Roundtable Series
Staff: Paul B. Stares, General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
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 London
Discussant: Ken Knight, National Intelligence Council
Presider: Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign Relations
October 22, 2009
Roundtable Meeting
Egypt on the Brink?
Speakers: Steven A. Cook, Council on Foreign Relations
Steven Heydemann, U.S. Institute of Peace
Presider: Paul B. Stares, Council on Foreign Relations
October 1, 2008
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 Relations
Speakers: Charles F. Dambach, President and CEO, Alliance for Peacebuilding
Michael S. Lund, Management Systems International
April 9, 2008
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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 Relations
Speaker: Sumit Ganguly, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
February 13, 2008
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 Relations
Speakers: Severine Autesserre, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College
Thomas Turner, Country Specialist, Democratic Republic of Congo, Amnesty International USA (DC)
November 27, 2007
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 Relations
May 23, 2007
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 Relations
Speaker: Barnett R. Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, New York University
January 25, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
Beyond Iraq: Sources and Solutions to Conflict on the Arabian Peninsula
Speaker: Rachel Bronson, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Major General William L. Nash
April 3, 2006
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