POLICY INITIATIVES: Security & Peace Policy
| Listed below are resources related to security and peace policy. Resources include conferences and seminars hosted by the Swiss Foundation for World Affairs, information on Switzerland's official security and peace policy and Swiss organizations and research institutes.
| Swiss Foundation for World Affairs Conferences and Seminars
| Governing Nuclear Weapons: Addressing Political Control, Military Prerogatives, and Scientific Lobbies, April 11, 2005
(Hosted jointly with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF))
This conference discussed how nuclear weapon countries (both democratic and non-democratic) balance the need for the usability and security of nuclear weapons with the need for political accountability. Experts compared the governance of nuclear weapons in the three major recognized nuclear weapon states - the United States, Russia and China - and in the three de facto nuclear weapon states Israel, India and Pakistan. The keynote address by Walter B. Slocombe, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, was followed by three discussion panels.
| Security in a World of Conflict: Needs and Strategies in International Policing, April 6, 2005
Keynote address: Richard Monk, Director and Senior Police Advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); discussant: Robert M. Perito, Iraq Experience Project, United States Institute of Peace (USIP).
| Memo to the Next President: Some Thoughts from Friends and Allies, October 27, 2004
Conference participants included Jacques Andreani, former Ambassador of France to the United States; Edouard Brunner, former Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States; Sir Brian L. Crowe, former Director-General for External and Politico-Military Affairs in the EU Council of Ministers (UK); Dieter Dettke, Executive Director of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Washington, DC Office).
| More Than Just a Game: The Role of Sports in International Relations, October 18, 2004
Conference participants included The Honorable Adolf Ogi, Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace and former President of Switzerland; Richard Solomon, President of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP); Johann Koss, 4-time Olympic gold medalist and founder of "Right to Play"; Amir Dossal, Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP); Jerome Champagne, Deputy Secretary-General of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA); and Daniel Doyle, founder of the Institute of International sport and initiator of the World Scholar-Athlete Games.
| The New Global Architecture: Building New Foundations -- Moral and Value Foundations, May 4, 2004 & Institutional Foundations Beyond the United Nations, May 17, 2004
Amitai Etzioni's ideas, as presented in his new book From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations, were discussed in this two-part conference series. Our first panel included Amitai Etzioni, Professor, Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, George Washington University; David Calleo, Chair, European Studies, Johns Hopkins Univeristy-SAIS; Albert de Pury, Professor of Biblical Studies, University of Geneva; Hillel Fradkin, President, Ethics and Public Policy Center; Nikolas Gvosdev, Executive Editor, The National Interest; Mike Lampton, Chair, China Studies, Johns Hopkins Univeristy-SAIS and John Donvan, ABC News Correspondent (moderator). Our second panel included Amitai Etzioni, Professor, Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, George Washington University; Pierre de Senarclens, Professor of International Relations, University of Lausanne, and Vice President, ICRC; Charles Kupchan, Director of Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, and Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University; and Johanna Mendelson Forman, Senior Program Officer for Peace, Security, and Human Rights, U.N. Foundation. Martin Walker, Editor-in-Chief, United Press International (UPI) (moderator).
| New Challenges: Post Conflict Reconstruction of the Security Sector, March 4, 2004
(Hosted jointly with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF))
The Honorable Mira Ricardel, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, was the keynote speaker. Our panel of experts included Nicole Ball, Chester Crocker, Kayode Fayemi, Francis Fukuyama, István Gyarmati, Andzej Karkoszka, Thomas Keaney, Robert M. Perito, Walter B. Slocombe, and Ambassador Theodor Winkler.
| The Geneva Initiative: A Possible Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?, February 10, 2004
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, member of Israeli delegation to the Geneva Initiative, and Nabil Amr, member of Palestinian delegation to the Geneva Initiative, provided Opening Remarks. Panelists included Pierre Keller, Swiss Foundation for World Affairs; Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor; Geir O. Pedersen, United Nations; Frederic C. Hof, AALC, lead drafter of Mitchell Report; Ghaith Al-Omari, member of Palestinian delegation to the Geneva Initiative; Daniel Levy, member of Israeli delegation to the Geneva Initiative; I. William Zartman, Johns Hopkins University - SAIS; Salah Abdel Shafi, member of Palestinian delegation to the Geneva Initiative; Gadi Baltiansky, member of Israeli delegation to the Geneva Initiative; Herbert C. Kelman, Harvard University; Jerome Segal, University of Maryland; Ambassador Urs Ziswiler, Switzerland; Clive Myrie, BBC; and Matthew Hodes, Carter Center.
| The Role of the United Nations in International Security Today, November 13, 2003
with His Excellency Jan Eliasson (Ambassador of Sweden to the United States), Ambassador Dr. Hussein Hassouna (Chief Representative of the League of Arab States to the United States), Ambassador Claude de Kemoularia (President Club of Monaco, Paris), Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba (Deputy Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations), Mr. Lee Feinstein (Washington Director, Council on Foreign Relations), and Minister Pierre Helg (Deputy Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations).
| Security Issues Then and Now: Decision Making in a Changing World Order, April 1, 2003
with Lieutenant General William E. Odom (Ret.), Director, National Security Studies, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, and Ambassador Edouard Brunner, Chairman of the Swiss Foundation for World Affairs, former Swiss Ambassador to the U.S.
| Searching for Peace: The United Nations, Switzerland and the Role of Small States in World Politics, March 27, 2003
with Ambassador Edouard Brunner, Former Swiss Ambassador to the U.S., Ambassador Blaise Godet, Head of the Political Affairs Directorate, Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Felix E. Muller, Editor-in-Chief "NZZ am Sonntag," and Edward Joseph, Director of the International Crisis Group in Macedonia. This seminar was presented in connection with the Swisspeaks Festival and co-hosted by Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Europe.
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