Tuesday, March 21, 2006

"Making Sanctions Effective: Lessons from Iraq"

7:00pm

IPJ Theatre

Professor Peter Wallensteen led the Stockholm Process on Targeted Sanctions that reported to UN Security Council in February 2003. A number of improvements have been made in the use and implementation of sanctions, particularly making them more targeted on particular individuals that hold responsible positions. This is one of the lessons from the comprehensive
sanctions that were imposed on Iraq 1990-2003. In his talk
Professor Wallensteen will recount the work of the Stockholm process and raise issue on the uses of sanctions today.

Professor Peter Wallensteen holds the Dag Hammarskjöld chair of peace and conflict research, Uppsala University and was the head of Department from 1972 to 1999. He directs the Uppsala Conflict Data Program which provides annual overviews of armed conflict around the globe, regularly published for instance in the Journal of Peace Research and SIPRI yearbooks.

For more information on the topic see www.smartsanctions.se, for more on Professor Wallensteen, see www.pcr.uu.se, on the conflict data program see www.ucdp.uu.se.