“Smart sanctions” experts to lead symposium for U.N. Security Council | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › “Smart sanctions” experts to lead symposium for U.N. Security Council “Smart sanctions” experts to lead symposium for U.N. Security Council Published: April 25, 2007 Author: Joan Fallon U.N. sanctions experts George Lopez and David Cortright from the University of Notre Dames Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies will lead a United Nations Security Council policy symposium on enhancing the implementation of targeted sanctions Monday (April 30). The symposium will include new U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and about 120 council ministers and personnel. Peter Wallensteen, the Richard G. Starmann Research Professor of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute, also will participate in the daylong meeting at U.N. headquarters inNew York. Lopez and Cortright have worked with the U.N. Security Council, government leaders and international agencies for more than a decade to reform and refine the implementation of economic sanctions. The co-authors of five books on sanctions, they helped develop the use ofsmart sanctions- penalties that focus tightly on the leaders responsible for offensive policies but that avoid harming innocent people. What the world learned after sanctions were imposed againstHaiti,YugoslaviaandIraqis that comprehensive sanctions are a sledgehammer on a countrys economy and people,Lopez said.On the other hand, the use of targeted sanctions against Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia, Muamar Qaddafi in Libya and Kim Jong Il in North Korea shows that this approach has substantial payoffs. This is norm enforcement with teeth. Since 1990, the U.N. Security Council has imposed coercive economic measuresagainst many nations, non-government entities, militias and other political and military movements. It currently is debating whether to impose additional sanctions againstIranfor uranium enrichment and againstSudanfor actions inDarfur. The symposium is funded byGreece, an outgoing member of the U.N. Security Council. It will begin with a keynote address by Ban, followed by a full day of panels and workshops led by Lopez, Cortright, Wallensteen and former diplomats and technical experts involved in most of the sanctions successes of the past decade. Notre Dames Kroc Institute is dedicated to understanding the causes of violent conflict and promoting the conditions for sustainable peace. Lopez is a senior fellow at the institute and Cortright is president of the Fourth Freedom Forum and a Kroc research fellow. They are co-directors of the institutes Sanctions and Security Project. More information on the Kroc Institute is available at http://kroc.nd.edu/ _ From : Joan Fallon, Kroc Institute director of communications, 574-631-8819 or jfallon2@nd.edu _ TopicID: 22426 Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn