Wednesday, 1 June 2011, 09:00 - 10:30
Hosted by the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Targeted sanctions are qualitatively different from comprehensive sanctions. They are intended to have less of a humanitarian impact because they typically target leaders, decision-makers, their principal supporters or individuals or entities directly involved in proscribed activities, rather than an entire population of a country. The UN Security Council has used targeted sanctions for a variety of different purposes over the past twenty years – to counter terrorism, enforce peace agreements, promote democracy and human rights, pursue investigations, and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. This panel will explore the impacts and effectiveness of different episodes of targeted sanctions to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, with a focus on Iran and the DPRK. This is part of a larger, multi-year, multi-institutional and multi-national research project based at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, examining the impacts and effectiveness of UN targeted sanctions measures.
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Chair
UN Targeted Sanctions in Comparative Perspective
Thomas Biersteker
Curt Gasteyger Chair in International Security and Conflict Studies, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Speakers
Impacts and Effectiveness of Targeted Sanctions on Iran
Kimberly Elliott
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, US
Impacts and Effectiveness of Targeted Sanctions on the DPRK
Sue Eckert
Senior Fellow, The Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, US
Discussant
Jürg Lauber
Ambassador, Representative of Switzerland to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland
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