Roundtables (under construction)

Another aspect of PILPG's mission is to educate and train diplomats and foreign officials, preparing them for peace negotiations and to draft international agreements. PILPG organizes roundtables to educate participants about previous attempts and successes at peace and invites those who were directly involved to facilitate a lessons-learned discussion. The purpose of this exercise is to accumulate and organize the wealth of knowledge currently in the peace-building field and to present future negotiators with a variety of solutions both to better prepare them and to facilitate successful negotiation outcomes.

Iraq Roundtable
Establishing a Stable Democratic Constitutional Structure in Iraq: Some Basic Considerations (.pdf format)

This roundtable was prepared by the Public International Law and Policy Group, in cooperation with the Century Foundation, in May 2003. The roundtable discusses the Political Context, Choosing a State Structure, Deciding on Autonomy- Asymmetrical Federalism, Designing a Parliament, Structuring an Executive, Building an Electoral System, Protecting Minority/Human Rights, and Democratic Consolidation.

The roundtable was co-chaired by Ambassador Morton Abramowitz, of the Century Foundation; The Honorable Abraham D. Sofaer, of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; and Professor Paul R. Williams, of American University and co-director of the Public International Law and Policy Group.