CARNEGIE COMMISSION ON PREVENTING DEADLY CONFLICT FIVE COLLEGE PROGRAM IN PEACE AND WORLD SECURITY STUDIES
1999 Summer Faculty Institute

"Violent Conflict in the 21st Century: Causes, Dynamics, and Prevention"
Amherst College, June 14-18, 1999

DRAFT AGENDA

Monday, June 14

Context of the Problem

 
9:00-10:00am Registration and Breakfast
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10:00-10:15am

Welcome
Michael Klare, PAWSS and Esther Brimmer, CCPDC

 
10:15-11:00am Session One: "The Nature of Conflict and the Possibilities of Prevention"
Speaker: David A. Hamburg, Co-Chair, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
 

 

Global Tectonic Forces
11:00am-12:30pm

Session Two: "Violent Conflict in the Contemporary World"
Speaker: Stephan Walt, University of Chicago

 
12:30-1:30pm

Lunch
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1:30-3:00pm

Session Three: "Economic Globalization as a Source of Conflict"
Speaker: David Gold, United Nations

 
3:00-3:15pm

Coffee

 

3:30-5:00pm

Session Four: "NGOs and New Actors in the Era of Globalization"
Speaker: Harold H. Saunders, The Kettering Foundation

 
5:30-7:30pm

Reception and Dinner

 
7:30-9:00pm

Keynote Speaker: "Conflict Prevention and Diplomacy"
Speaker: Flora MacDonald, Former Canadian Foreign Minister

 

 

Tuesday, June 15

 

Context of the Problem: Dynamics

 

7:30-9:00am

 

Breakfast
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9:00-10:30pm

Session One: "The Economics of Civil Conflict"
Speaker: Paul Collier, The World Bank

 
10:30-10:45am

Coffee

 
10:45am-12:15pm Session Two: "Light Weapons and Civil Conflict"
Speaker: Michael Klare, PAWSS
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
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1:15-3:00pm Session Three: "The Complexity of Humanitarian Assistance"
Speaker: Janice Gross Stein, University of Toronto
3:00-6:00pm

Break

 
6:00pm Dinner
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Evening

Film or videos on aspects of contemporary conflict

 
Wednesday, June 16 Prevention: Tools

 

7:30-9:00am

 

Breakfast
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9:00-10:30am Session One: "Warning-Response: Early Action and Strategies of Conflict Prevention"
Speaker: Jane E. Holl, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
10:30-10:45am Session Two: "Preventive Diplomacy, Mediation, and Arbitration"
Speakers: James E. Goodby, The Brookings Institution
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
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1:15-3:00pm Session Three: "Lessons Learned: Sanctions/Partition/Humanitarian Intervention"
Speakers: Andrew Mack, Office of the UN Secretary-General Radha Kumar, Council on Foreign Relations
3:00-3:15pm

Coffee

 
3:15-4:45pm Session Four: "Changing Norms in the Use of Force"
Speakers: Lori Damrosch, Columbia University
William Nash, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
6:00-7:30pm

Dinner

 
Thursday, June 17 Prevention: Addressing the Roots of Conflict

 

7:30-9:00am

 

Breakfast
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9:00-10:30am Session One: "Strategies for Structural Prevention: Security, Well-being, and Justice"
3:00-3:15pm
Panelists: Security Karl Farris, former Director, U.S. Army
Peacekeeping Institute
  Well-being TBD, USAID
  Justice Robert I Rotberg, Harvard University and
the World Peace Foundation
10:30-10:45am

Coffee

Prevention: Actors

10:45am-12:15pm Session Two: "Post-conflict Peace-building: The Role of the International Financial Institutions and Regional Organizations"
Speakers: Johanna Mendelson Forman, Post-Conflict Unit, The World Bank
  Esther Brimmer, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
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1:15-2:45pm Session Three: "The Role of the Academy in Preventing Conflict"
Speaker: George Lopez, Notre Dame University
2:45-3:00pm

Coffee

 
3:00-4:45pm

Session Four: Workshop on Integrating These Themes Into the Undergraduate Curriculum
Speaker: Mary Geske, Smith College

5:30-6:30pm

Reception

 
6:30-7:30pm

Dinner

 
7:30-9:00pm

Address: "The Role of the United Nations: Special Representatives, Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement"
Speaker: S. Iqbal Riza, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations (Invited)

 
Friday, June 18

Conclusion

 
7:30-9:00am Breakfast
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9:00-10:30am Session One: "The Role of the United States in Preventing Conflict"
Speaker: Sarah Sewall, American Academy of Arts & Sciences and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping
10:30-10:45am Session Two: "The Tasks Ahead"
Speaker: Kevin Clements, International Alert
12:15-12:30pm

Closing Remarks and Farewell

 
12:30pm Lunch