Luncheon Panel
Washington, DC
The Stanley Foundation will host a luncheon panel on Wednesday, July 1, 2009, to address the topic “Preventing Catastrophic Terrorism: Exploring the Synergies Between UNSCR 1540 and Global Cooperative Threat Reduction.” Panelists include Elizabeth Turpen, senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, and Anne Harrington, director of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control, The National Academies. The panel will be moderated by Michael Kraig, senior fellow at the Stanley Foundation.
In April 2004, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1540, of which the goal was to strengthen controls over sensitive weapons, materials, technologies, and know-how—particularly to address the increasing challenge presented by nonstate actors. Meanwhile, there has been a more recent series of intensive and comprehensive US government reports on the potential for expanding traditional US-Russian CTR programs via a “global reboot” of CTR programming, what the National Academies coined as “Global CTR 2.0.” Two major examples include the National Academy of Sciences-authored report, Global Security Engagement: A New Model for Cooperative Threat Reduction and the report of the Review Panel on Future Directions for Defense Threat Reduction Agency Missions and Capabilities to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction, also known as the “Carter-Joseph Report.”
The focus of this panel is to discuss how Resolution 1540, as it operates at the level of global and regional politics, provides a mechanism and opportunity for “globalized threat reduction” and application of the tools available at agencies such as the Department of State, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense.
Questions for discussion include:
- How relevant is UN Resolution 1540 for the further conceptualization and operationalization of “Global CTR 2.0"?
- For instance: what do the region-specific experiences of 1540 implementation have to say about possible CTR expansion worldwide?
- Equally: what do extensive US projects, programs, and policy efforts in the area of CTR have to say about the further expansion of UN Resolution 1540 activities throughout the developing world?
- In tapping US national security resources to effectively address mutual concerns, is there a way to meld global cooperative threat reduction concepts and programs to the implementation of Resolution 1540, and vice versa?
Powerpoint Presentations from luncheon:
Anne M. Harrington on Global Security Engagement:A Tool for UNSCR 1540 Implementation
Dr. Elizabeth Turpen on Preventing Catastrophic Terrorism: Exploring Synergies between 1540 and CTR 2.0
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