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Unproven: The Controversy over Justifying War in Iraq
Groundbreaking Report Questions Administration's Use of Intelligence to Promote War in Iraq As controversy mounts over the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,
a new report shows that prior to the war U.S. and British officials systematically
ignored evidence refuting claims of a grave Iraqi weapons threat. The new report,
Unproven: The Controversy over Justifying War in Iraq, adds fuel to the fire
of those who claim that senior U.S. and British officials intentionally misrepresented
intelligence information and led the public into war on false premises.
In more than two months of inspections by U.S. and UK investigators following
the war, no actual weapons of mass destruction have been found. Chief UN weapons
inspector Hans Blix confirmed in testimony to the Security Council this week
that UN investigators also were unable to find evidence of prohibited weapons.
The new report is based entirely on publicly available sources, most of which
were published prior to the war. The report is produced by researchers from
the Sanctions and Security Project of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International
Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the Fourth Freedom Forum.
The report can be accessed
as a PDF file or an
html file .
The authors are available for interview by calling or emailing
Ruth Miller at 1.800.233.6786 or 574.534.3402, Ext. 10.
David Cortright is chair of the Board and Senior Fellow of the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana and codirector of its Sanctions and Security Research Program. He is also director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as consultant or advisor to various agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Along with George A. Lopez he has provided research and consulting services to the Foreign Ministry of Sweden, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and the Foreign Ministry of Germany. He has written widely on nuclear disarmament, nonviolent social change, and the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international peacemaking.
Alistair Millar is president of the Fourth Freedom Forum and the director of its Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation. He also teaches graduate level courses on counterterrorism and U.S. foreign policy at The Johns Hopkins University and The George Washington University, and at the Department of Homeland Security's Center of Excellence on the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland. Millar has written numerous chapters, articles, and reports on international counterterrorism efforts, sanctions regimes, and nonproliferation, and has served as consultant to various agencies of the United Nations, the European Union, and to several European governments on sanctions and counterterrorism issues.
Linda M. Gerber is program director of the Fourth Freedom Forum and codirector of the joint Fourth Freedom Forum/Kroc Institute Sanctions and Security Project. She received her Masters of Library Science degree from the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. Gerber-Stellingwerf has coauthored and edited various reports and books produced by the Fourth Freedom Forum. She is a member of the American Library Association.
George A. Lopez holds the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Chair in Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Lopez's research interests focus primarily on the problems of state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions, gross violations of human rights, and ethics and the use of force. For a list of publications by Lopez, please go to the Kroc Institute, Lopez, CV.
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