The Wachenheim Center for Peace and Security at the Council on Foreign Relations is dedicated to conflict prevention and resolution. The center seeks to identify pathways to prevent, mitigate, and end conflict, as well as promote the conditions that engage a just and secure peace. It aims to generate debate on these issues and why they matter to the United States.
As the number, magnitude, and complexity of armed conflicts grow around the world, the means to address them remain rooted in past practices and challenged multilateral institutions. The Wachenheim Center on Peace and Security accomplishes its mission by producing forward-looking assessments and in-depth policy analysis, and by convening regular consultations with representatives of leading international institutions, civil society groups, corporations, and other research organizations.
This center is made possible by the generous support of the Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation.
The Center for Preventive Action’s (CPA) Global Conflict Tracker is an interactive guide to ongoing conflicts around the world of concern to the United States. The map displays nearly thirty conflicts with background information and resources on each conflict.
CFR’s Special Initiative provides timely, informed analysis and practical policy recommendations for U.S. policymakers and the public. Ensuring that Ukraine is able to resist and survive Russia’s full-scale invasion such that peace and security is restored to Europe will thus remain a policy priority for the United States.
The annual Preventive Priorities Survey draws upon the informed judgments of government officials, foreign policy experts, and academics to identify thirty contingencies requiring U.S. attention over the next twelve months. Preventive Priorities Surveys are made possible by a generous grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Program, recommends that the United States reconsider its assumptions around eventual leadership change in Tehran, revive regime accountability efforts, prepare for opportunistic escalation by proxy groups, and ready itself for renewed nuclear diplomacy.
CFR International Affairs Fellow in National Security Roxanna Vigil argues that the United States should engage early with Colombia’s next administration to signal support for full implementation of the 2016 Peace Accords and provide targeted assistance.
Assumptions about how a potential conflict between the United States and China over Taiwan would unfold should urgently be revisited. Such a war, far from being insulated, would likely draw in additional powers, expand geographically, and escalate vertically.
The United States faces growing dangers of nuclear escalation, a new arms race, and proliferation. This report recommends an improved strategy for “optimal deterrence” and a path to rebuilding relationships with allies without allowing them to dictate U.S. force requirements.
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Wachenheim Center for Peace and Security
Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Senior Fellow for Europe
Fellow for Latin America Studies
Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies
Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Fellow
Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia and South Asia
Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Senior Vice President of Studies and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies
Senior Fellow
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
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