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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
Center for Preventive Action
Conflict Risk Assessment and Monitoring
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General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
About the Project
To help focus U.S. conflict prevention and crisis preparedness efforts, the Center for Preventive Action conducts an annual survey of foreign policy experts to assess which potential contingencies in the coming year deserve more attention and resources than others. The results are released in the Preventive Priorities Survey which ranks thirty plausible contingencies in order of their likelihood and potential impact. CPA also provides background information and up-to-date analysis of contingencies worldwide on its online interactive, the Global Conflict Tracker.
This project is made possible by the generous support of Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Today, we at the Center for Preventive Action released our Preventive Priorities Survey (PPS) for 2015. This is the seventh in our annual effort to harness crowd wisdom and foreign policy expertise i…
This post originally appeared on the Atlantic online.
President Obama has repeatedly pledge to do “nation-building at home” during his second-term. However, it is likely that unanticipated world …
2012 Preventive Priorities Map.
Last Thursday, the Center for Preventive Action team published our fifth annual Preventive Priorities Survey (PPS): a list of thirty contingencies r…
A protester holds a tear gas canister, initially thrown by riot police near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt on November 22, 2011 (Courtesy Reuters/Amr Dalsh).
This post originally app…
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