Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict

The Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict The "ceased operations in December 1999. Commission reports are still available for download on this site. The Conflict Prevention Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars builds on the work of the Commission."

"Carnegie Corporation of New York established the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict in May 1994 to address the looming threat to world peace of intergroup violence and to advance new ideas for the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict. An operating program of the Corporation, the Commission is cochaired by Corporation president emeritus David A. Hamburg and Cyrus R. Vance, former U.S. secretary of state. It has a membership of sixteen eminent international leaders and scholars with long experience in conflict prevention and resolution. An Advisory Council, expert consultants, and experienced practitioners have assisted the Commission in its work.

"The Commission has examined the principal causes of deadly ethnic, nationalist, and religious conflicts within and between states and the circumstances that foster or deter their outbreak. Taking a long-term, worldwide view of violent conflicts that are likely to emerge, it seeks to determine the functional requirements of an effective system for preventing mass violence and to identify the ways in which such a system could be implemented. The Commission looks at the strengths and weaknesses of various international entities in conflict prevention and considers ways in which international organizations might contribute toward developing an effective international system of nonviolent problem solving."

Members

• David A. Hamburg, Co-chair, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Cyrus R. Vance, Co-chair, Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
• Gro Harlem Brundtland - Prime Minister of Norway
• Virendra Dayal - Member Human, Rights Commission of India
• Gareth Evans - Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government of Australia
• Alexander L. George - Graham H. Stuart, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Stanford University
• Flora MacDonald - Chair, International Development Research Centre
• Donald F. McHenry - University Research Professor of Diplomacy and International Affairs, Georgetown University
• Olara A. Otunnu - President, International Peace Academy
• David Owen - Chairman, Humanitas
• Shridath Ramphal - Co-Chairman, Commission on Global Governance
• Roald Z. Sagdeev - Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
• John D. Steinbruner - Director, Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
• Brian Urquhart - Scholar-in-Residence, International Affairs Program - The Ford Foundation
• John C. Whitehead - Chairman, AEA Investors Inc.
• Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan - Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Western Sahara

Special Advisor to the Commission

• Herbert S. Okun - Executive Director, Financial Services Volunteer Corps
• Jane E. Holl, Executive Director

Advisory Council

• Morton Abramowitz - President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Ali Abdullah Alatas - Minister for Foreign Affairs, Republic of Indonesia
• Graham T. Allison - Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Robert Badinter - President Emeritus, Constitutional Council of France
• Carol Bellamy - Executive Director, United Nations Children's Fund
• Harold Brown - Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• McGeorge Bundy - Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Jimmy Carter - The Carter Center of Emory University
• Lori Damrosch - Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law
• Francis M. Deng - Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
• Sidney D. Drell - Professor and Deputy Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
• Lawrence S. Eagleburger - Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, Baker, Worthington, Crossley & Stansberry
• Leslie H. Gelb - President, Council on Foreign Relations
• David Gompert - Vice President, National Security Research, RAND
• Andrew J. Goodpaster - Cochair, The Atlantic Council of the United States
• Mikhail S. Gorbachev - The Gorbachev Foundation
• James P. Grant - *Executive Director, United Nations Children's Fund
• Lee H. Hamilton - United States House of Representatives
• Theodore M. Hesburgh - President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
• Donald L. Horowitz - James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University School of Law
• Michael Howard - President, International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Karl Kaiser - Director, Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Affairs
• Nancy Landon Kassebaum - United States Senate
• Sol M. Linowitz - Honorary Chairman, The Academy for Educational Development
• Richard G. Lugar - United States Senate
• Michael Mandelbaum - Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
• Robert S. McNamara - Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
• William H. McNeill - Professor Emeritus of History, University of Chicago
• Sam Nunn - United States Senate
• Olusegun Obasanjo - President, Africa Leadership Forum
• Sadako Ogata - The High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations
• Javier Perez de Cuellar - Former Secretary-General, United Nations
• Condoleezza Rice - Provost, Stanford University
• Elliot L. Richardson - Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
• Harold H. Saunders - Director of International Affairs, Kettering Foundation
• George P. Shultz - Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University
• Richard Solomon - President, United States Institute of Peace
• James Gustave Speth - Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
• Desmond Tutu - The Archbishop of Cape Town
• James D. Watkins - President, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
• Elie Wiesel - University Professor and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Boston University
• I. William Zartman - Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution, Director of the African Studies Program

(* Deceased February 1995.)