Discussion Participants

The ideas and recommendations in this paper were developed in a series of 14 meetings convened by the Stanley Foundation at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York between October 2001 and July 2003. The discussions were conducted in two phases, with the first focusing on humanitarian response at the operational level and the second dealing with the political and headquarters level. Recommendations #1-7 were developed in the first phase; #8-10 emerged from the second phase of discussions; and recommendation #11 covers the resource implications of the project's entire agenda.

The chair and director of this project gratefully acknowledge the participants listed below for their insights, though responsibility for the text rests with them alone.* As with most such group endeavors, it cannot be assumed that every participant agrees with all of the paper's conclusions.

Chair: Thomas G. Weiss, Presidential Professor and Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Project Director: David Shorr, Program Officer, The Stanley Foundation

Rapporteur: Peter J. Hoffman, Ph.D. Candidate, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Phase I (October 2001-December 2002)

Mark Bowden, Policy Development and Studies Branch, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Carlos dos Santos, Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations

William Dowell, The Global Beat

John Fawcett, Independent Consultant**

Michèle Griffin, UN Department of Political Affairs

Arthur C. Helton, Strategic Humanitarian Action and Research

Tom Kelly, Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the United Nations

Iain Levine, Office of Emergency Programmes, United Nations Children's Fund

Edward C. Luck, Center on International Organization, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Kim Maynard, Cuny Center for the Study of Societies in Crisis**

Ken Menkhaus, Davidson College**

Michael Møller, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations

Erin D. Mooney, The Brookings-CUNY Project on Internal Displacement

William L. Nash, Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations

William G. O'Neill, International Peace Academy

Sarah Poole, Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, United Nations Development Programme

John P. Prendergast, Africa Program, International Crisis Group

Gert Rosenthal, Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations

Andrew Russell, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Development Programme

Eric Paul Schwartz, Council on Foreign Relations

Abby Stoddard, Center for International Cooperation, New York University

Julia V. Taft, Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Programme

Rudolph Von Bernuth, Save the Children

H. Roy Williams, Center for Humanitarian Cooperation

Phase II (February-July 2003)

Mark Bowden, Policy Development and Studies Branch, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Tariq S. Chaudhry, Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations

John Fawcett, Independent Consultant

Michèle Griffin, UN Department of Political Affairs

Arjan Paul Hamburger, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations

Arthur C. Helton, Strategic Humanitarian Action and Research

Tom Kelly, Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the United Nations

Melissa Labonte, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University

Ginette Lachance, Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations

Edward C. Luck, Center on International Organization, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University**

William G. O'Neill, International Peace Academy

John P. Prendergast, Africa Program, International Crisis Group

Gert Rosenthal, Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations

Andrew Russell, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Development Programme

Abby Stoddard, Center for International Cooperation, New York University

Julia V. Taft, Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Programme

H. Roy Williams, Center for Humanitarian Cooperation

* The participants listed here attended multiple sessions, with many attending several, as well as contributing to the drafting process electronically. The affiliations were current at the time of their participation and are listed for identification purposes only. A number of other persons attended other sessions, but their names are not included here.

** Papers were commissioned from these participants to delve into key issues as the group prepared to discuss them.