Global Governance
The Global Security Outlook
“Why has it become so hard to predict things?” asked Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference. He lamented that some of the smartest minds in the world failed to pre...
Mark Vlasic
Professor/Lawyer/Producer: Senior Fellow & Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University; Principal, Madison Law & Strategy Group (boutique international law/consulting firm focusing on trade, strategic philanthropy, policy & human rights); Co-Executive Producer, Propagate Content (social impact TV); ITAC Adviser to the US Secretary of Commerce & US Trade Representative. Former: Head of Operations, World Bank's StAR Secretariat; White House Fellow, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Adviser to the President's Special Envoy to Sudan; Associate, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Legal Officer (Milosevic/Srebrenica prosecutions), United Nations ICTY; pro bono Advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO (re looted antiquities and terrorist financing). Member: US Delegation to the Pan Am 103 "Lockerbie" trial; Boards: Humanity in Action, Atlas Service Corps, DC Fulbright Association; Center on Sactions & Ilicit Finance. Recipient: Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service. BSc and JD (Hons), Georgetown; Fulbright Scholar, Leiden; Cert., Hague Academy of International Law. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2013).
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Cybersecurity
Cyber War
David Rothkopf, Chief Executive Officer and Editor of the Foreign Policy Group, USA, introduced the topic with the warning: “The only thing we know about this subject is that it will chan...
International Security
Redefining Europe's Security Agenda
“The list of threats from a European context are all coming together,” said Robin Niblett, referring to challenges involving Russia, the Middle East, refugees, immigration, Brexit, terror...
Fragility, Violence and Conflict
The Future of Warfare
“It is certain that we will see more and more missions, in many militaries, turned over to robots.” So began the Davos discussion on the future of warfare between world leaders and schola...
Creating Profit through Purpose
The Davos sceptic would be surprised to learn that a morning meeting on “purpose” was at capacity. Indeed, there is a palpable interest at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting ...
Fragility, Violence and Conflict
Terrorism in the Digital Age
Speaking from his position on the front lines of terrorism in Africa, Yemi Osinbajo, Vice-President of Nigeria observed that “the ability of terrorists to connect and interact quickly is ...
Fragility, Violence and Conflict
Our cultural heritage is under attack. We must all join the fight to protect it
For as long as we have had conflicts, the theft and destruction of cultural property has been deployed as a tactic of war. But the international community is starting to act.
Justice and Legal Infrastructure
The slow and sustained fight against evil
The first thing that hits you at a mass grave is not the sight of decomposing bodies, but the smell.
Future of Government
Does Timbuktu have lessons for Palmyra: ISIS and the long arm of justice
The Arch of Triumph in the archaeological city of Palmyra has been a virtual entry-way into the UNESCO World Heritage Site for 1,800 years. It has seen armies come and go, and empires ris...
Fragility, Violence and Conflict
How can we stop ISIS and the trafficking of our cultural heritage?
A bespectacled octogenarian archaeologist being tortured and murdered, reportedly to make him disclose the secret location of cultural treasures from the cradle of civilization. It sounds...
Lessons from the Srebrenica genocide
Twenty years ago this week a military force took a break from their normal combat duties to dig extra trenches, procure lighting, find wire for ligatures and cloth for blindfolds. Theirs ...