By invitation of Yale University and its World Fellows program, the EastWest Institute held the fourth Core Group meeting of its International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy at the Yale campus in New Haven, Connecticut, April 13-15, 2008.

Two intense and productive days of discussions with Task Force members and stakeholders--including leading Yale faculty, as well as representatives from the US State Department, United Nations, and leading international civil society organizations--resulted in substantive advancement of the proposal for an “International Panel on Conflict Prevention and Human Security” and a “Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention and Human Security.” All participants were in favor of both initiatives, with the UN and State Department representatives respectively calling them “extremely valuable and necessary” and “timely initiatives indeed”. Both the Panel and Network, if implemented, have the potential to reframe the traditional security policy debate towards a much-needed holistic approach