Enhancing the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Sanctions

On 30 April 2007 the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Fourth Freedom Forum cosponsored a sanctions symposium at the United Nations in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations. Cosponsoring organizations included The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and the Stockholm Process on Targeted Sanctions at Uppsala University. David Cortright of the Fourth Freedom Forum and Kroc Institute professors George A. Lopez and Peter Wallensteen spoke at the event and met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who specifically mentioned the work of the Kroc Institute and Fourth Freedom Forum in his keynote address. April 30, 2007 Link to Report Summary in pdf form Please contact Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf at

Plenary Panels:

Lessons Learned
Presented by former committee chairs of the Angola, Libya, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire sanctions committees: Robert Fowler (Canada) for Angola; Danilo Tűrk (Slovenia) for Libya; Ellen Margrethe Løj (Denmark) for Liberia, and Adamantios Vassilakis for Côte d’Ivoire.

The State of the Art
Four experts examined the nature and scope of targeting (Sue E. Eckert, Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University); evaluating sanctions effectiveness (George A. Lopez, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, and David Cortright, Fourth Freedom Forum); and assessing ways to enhance sanctions implementation (Peter Wallensteen, Uppsala University).

Workshops:

Enhancing Information Management
The role of public communication in building awareness of and support for UN Security Council policy objectives.

Controlling Arms and WMD Proliferation
Requirements for making arms embargoes and technology control regimes effective; a summary of recommendations from expert group panels, and ways to improve their implementation.

Building Capacity at National, Regional, and International Levels
The link between capacity-building for counter-terrorism and for sanctions implementation; the record of the Al-Qaida/Taliban sanctions committee; parallels between capacity-building for counter-terrorism and sanctions implementation.

Refining the Sanctions Instrument
The rally effect and the limits of coercion; bargaining dynamics; the role of inducements; listing and delisting; proposals for improved sanctions coordination.