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November 20th, 2008
Managing Global Insecurity project launches 'Plan for Action' in Washington, DC
in the newsCISAC's Stephen Stedman and partners from the Brookings Institution and New York University released a comprehensive set of foreign policy recommendations for the next U.S. president in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 20, a week after the project was unveiled at Stanford. 
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June 15th, 2007
CISAC awards 14 honors certificates in international security studies
CISAC awarded honors certificates in international security studies to 14 undergraduates. Among them were award winners Brian Burton, who received a Firestone Medal for his thesis, "Counterinsurgency Principles and U.S. Military Effectiveness in Iraq," and Sherri Hansen, who received the William J. Perry Award for her thesis, "Explaining the Use of Child Soldiers." Read more »
December 12th, 2006
Iraq teaches nothing about intervention in Darfur, CISAC scholar writes
Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on November 6, 2006With Darfur in the news, commentators are looking to Iraq to find reasons against military intervention to stop the genocide in western Sudan. But Iraq is not an example of humanitarian intervention, CISAC visiting scholar Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe explains. A better way to decide whether to intervene in Darfur, she suggests, is to follow guidelines developed from just-war theory and set forth in a report by the U.N. High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change.
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January 1st, 2005
University Scholars Play Prominent Role in Charting Reforms for United Nations
FSI Stanford, CISAC NewsA new united nations report recommending the most sweeping reform in the institution's history offers a global vision of collective security for the 21st century that is as committed to development in poor nations as it is to prevention of nuclear terrorism in rich ones. Read more »
November 30th, 2004
Expanded Security Council among proposals in historic U.N. review
In an unprecedented review of collective security, the United Nations Panel on High-Level Threats, Challenges and Change proposed two options for increasing membership of the U.N. Security Council. The expansion is among 101 recommendations made by the panel of 16 world leaders commissioned by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in an effort to prevent the U.N. from becoming irrelevant in the face of unilateral actions by member states.
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May 7th, 2004
United States and Russia in isolation
Op-ed: Moscow Times on May 7, 2004Any strategic vision in the war on terrorism requires broad international cooperation. But the United States and Russia appear to be headed down the path of isolation, according to an op-ed piece by William J. Perry, published May 7 in the Moscow Times. Read more »
November 20th, 2003
Stedman named to U.N. High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change
On November 4, 2003, Stephen J. Stedman, CISAC Senior fellow, was appointed research director for the United Nations' new High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change. The panel is charged with examining current global threats and analyzing future challenges to international peace and security. Read more »