World Bank, Foreign Government Officials and Experts Prepare for 6th IISS Global Strategic Review
World Bank and Senior Representatives to Discuss
‘Changing Trends in Global Power and Conflict Resolution’
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) will bring together over four hundred senior government officials, leading researchers, and many of the Institute’s influential members to discuss and address some of the world’s most critical issues at the 6th IISS Global Strategic Review (GSR), to be held in Geneva from 12 to 14 September 2008.
The Keynote Address will be delivered by The Honorable Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank. Other noteworthy speakers include: Prof. Kim Beazley, Political Science and International Relations, University of West Australia; Sir Ronald Cohen, Chairman, Portland Trust; Christophe de Margerie, Chief Executive, Total; Nitin Desai, Member of the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, India; Ambassador Kai Eide, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan; Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, Deputy Chairman, Military Committee, NATO; Jean-Claude Mallet, President of the Commission of the French White Paper on Defence and National Security; Dr Tony Tan, Deputy Chairman and Executive Director of GIC; Igor Yurgens, Executive Board Chairman, Institute for Contemporary Development, Moscow; and Hoshyar Zebari, Foreign Minister of Iraq.
Nigel Inkster CMG, IISS Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk, finds ‘The Global Strategic Review gives a truly global perspective on all major security issues of current concern. Over a weekend in Geneva, it brings together opinion formers and policy-makers from around the planet to debate the issues that affect all of us.’
The 2008 GSR will have six plenary sessions on: Russia, The International System and Current Conflicts; Regional Perspectives on Conflict Resolution; Climate Change and International Security; Current Conflicts: Afghanistan and Iraq; Europe and Conflict Resolution: Isolated or Engaged; and Economics, Security and Conflict Resolution. The fourteen break-out groups will be held at two successive shifts and are open to observation, but strictly off-the-record.
For more information on delegate participation, the complete agenda, press policy and the history of the GSR, please reference: http://www.iiss.org/conferences/global-strategic-review
Before the official start of the GSR, the IISS will be launching Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, an Adelphi Paper on the requirements for the abolition of nuclear weapons by George Perkovich and James Acton on Friday, 12 September from 1100-1200. To attend the launch, RSVP to [email protected].
For instructions on providing press coverage of the GSR or to receive additional information on the conference or Adelphi Paper launch, please contact [email protected].
