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Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management
Civilian Crisis Management
Ethnic and religious tensions, high-income
differentiation, lack of institutions to maintain public order,
and the absence of democratic practices, are just a few factors
that cause or enable violence. One of the ways the international
community has sought to cope with some of these problems is
through conflict prevention and crisis management. BASIC's
report, A Conflict Prevention Service for the European
Union (COPS), focused on creating teams of experts who
could rapidly deploy to crises and use diplomacy, humanitarian
aid, policing, among other tools, to prevent crises from escalating
into war. BASIC continues to follow new European approaches
to conflict prevention and crisis management.
Roundtable Discussions
BASIC, with a grant from The
German Marshall Fund of the United States, held two roundtable
meetings in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 2001. The meetings
provided a chance for those in the Washington community to
hear the views of European experts and policy-makers on the
challenges and progress of civilian crisis management.
Click on the names below to read presentations.
October 23, 2001
Stepping Up to the Plate:
Can Europe Score with Crisis Management?
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Ulrich Fischer, advisor on human rights and humanitarian
aid to the German Green Party
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Jan Hoekema, Netherlands
parliamentarian with the Democrats 66
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Andreas Körner, advisor to the German Green
Party
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Anibal Villalba, major in the Spanish Army and
professor at the National Defense Studies Center in Madrid
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Moderator - Julie Smith, program officer with
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
*Summary of Meeting
October 30, 2001
European Views on the Nuts and Bolts of
Building a Better Peace
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Andrea de Guttry,
professor of international law and director of the International
Training Program for Conflict Management in Italy
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Alessandro Politi,
independent strategic and Open Source Intelligence analyst
in Italy
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Julie Smith (moderator), program
officer with The German Marshall Fund of the United States
*Summary of Meeting
Biographies of Participants
The German Marshall Fund of the United States is an
independent U.S. foundation created to deepen understanding,
promote collaboration and stimulate exchanges of practical
experience between Americans and Europeans.
*BASIC does not necessarily support all of
the views expressed in these meetings.
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