Panel Discussions - Wednesday, October 11, 2006
The Global Fight Against Terrorism: How Relevant is the UN?
IPI and the Century Foundation co-hosted a policy forum to discuss, five years after the attacks on 9/11, The Global Fight Against Terrorism: How Relevant is the UN?
To help frame the discussion, Alistair Millar and Eric Rosand of the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation authored a new report for the Century Foundation, "Allied Against Terrorism: What's Needed to Strengthen Worldwide Commitment?"
Since September 11, 2001, governments have asked the United Nations to assume a key role in the multilateral counterterrorism effort, with the Security Council and its various counterterrorism-related bodies at the forefront. Improving the UN's counterterrorism contribution has been a central theme of the debate on reforming the UN to make it more effective in confronting the threats and challenges of our age. The Millar-Rosand book critiques the UN's counterterrorism program, discusses the institutional and political limitations impeding the UN's performance in this area, and suggests short and long-term measures to overhaul the multilateral counterterrorism effort, including a dedicated international counterterrorism body--either part of, connected to, or separate from the UN.
We had an exceptional panel to provoke lively discussion around the table including Ellen Margrethe Loj, Denmark's Permanent Representative and Chair of the Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee, Prince Zeid al-Hussein, Jordan's Permanent Representative, an important voice on the UN's role in suppressing terrorism, and Robert Orr who has played a key role inside the Secretariat in developing the Secretary-General's counterterrorism strategy and his broader UN reform proposals.
The Global Observatory
Interview with John Prendergast, Co-Founder, Enough Project
Mr. Prendergast discusses the international justice system and the new ground forged by Invisible Children's Kony2012 campaign.
Key Global Events to Watch in May
A list of key upcoming meetings and events with implications for global affairs.
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Recent Events
May 10, 2012
Arbour: What the Rule of Law Means
“In my understanding of the rule of law, fundamentally, what the rule of law means is that it embraces the principle of equality before the law,” Louise Arbour, president of the International Crisis Group (ICG), told an IPI audience on May 10, 2012. Ms. Arbour outlined that this means that no one is above the law and everyone has both equal protection and equal benefit of the law. 
May 03, 2012
Shachtman: Cyber Threats Akin to South Bronx, Not Pearl Harbor
“There’s not a danger of a cyber Pearl Harbor… it’s more like the South Bronx circa 1999, where there’s a danger that it becomes such a tough neighborhood that no one wants to set up shop there and people move out,” Noah Shachtman, editor of the Danger Room blog at Wired magazine and non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, told an IPI audience at a panel on cyber security on May 3, 2011.
April 27, 2012
Preventing Conflicts in Africa: The Role of Early Warning and Response Systems
An April 27th roundtable discussion at IPI titled “Preventing Conflicts in Africa: The Role of Early Warning and Response Systems” examined the progress, prospects and challenges of regional and international early warning and response mechanisms to monitor, anticipate, and mitigate potential conflict situations in Africa.