On March 19, 2019, representatives of the diplomatic corps in Moscow and Russian experts had a meeting with Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Assistant Administrator of UNDP, and Director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, and Rastislav Vrbensky, Deputy Director
On March 19, 2019, representatives of the diplomatic corps in Moscow and Russian experts had a meeting with Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations...
... for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf region (2014–2017), was a special guest speaker.
The seminar discussed possible ways to resolve international crises, the role of international organizations, as well as minimizing the risks of armed conflicts.
Olga Oliker, Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, also made a speech on the part of the International Crisis Group. The meeting was attended by Russian experts in international law, journalists, and students.
Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director ...
... modern world.
On February 18, 2019, at 16:30, Russian International Affairs Council holds an open seminar on the origin and resolution of crises in the modern world.
Working language: English
What ways of resolving international military-political conflicts exist today? What is the role of international organizations in resolving armed conflicts? Is it possible to minimize the risk of armed conflicts and are there effective ways to prevent the "acute" stages of crises?
These and other ...
The conference aimed at initiating an essential discussion on the multi-disciplinary topic among the experts in security and promotion of development, as well as the experts in specific countries and regions coming from Russia, the countries of the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America.
On December 14-15, 2017, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted International Conference «Empowering Sustainability in a Fragile World».
The conference was held by the international consortium...
Alexander Nikitin held a lecture and presented his report “International Intervention in Conflicts: UN, OSCE, EU, NATO, CSTO Peacekeeping Policies”
On Wednesday, June 28, 2017, Alexander Nikitin, Director of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security at the Institute for International Research MGIMO and Head Research Associate of the Institute ...
... Russia” – Andrey Kazantsev said.
Sergey Markedonov, Associate Professor, Department of Regional Studies and Foreign Policy, Russian State University for the Humanities, RIAC Expert
, stressed that since the collapse of the Soviet Union nine armed conflicts have occurred. He said that the conflicts could be divided into two groups – frozen (Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria) and active ones, such as conflicts in the Ukraine’s East and in Nagorno-Karabakh. According to the expert,...
On January, 19, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, met with Jonathan Cohen,
Conciliation Resources
Director of Programmes, and Rachel Clogg, Caucasian Programme Director. The parties discussed information exchange and other forms of cooperation between RIAC and Conciliation Resources on Georgia-Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.
A fairly alarming picture of the future, replete with conflicts
Of course, the 100 years indicated in the title of the project is merely a poetic metaphor. In reality, we can only speak with some degree of certainty about two far closer forecasting horizons.
One is five or ten years away.
Let us assume ...
On November 9, 2015, RIAC was the venue for the rollout ceremony of monograph “Conflicts and Wars of the 21st Century: Middle East and North Africa” presented to the audience by Academic Advisor of RAS Institute for Oriental Studies Vitaly Naumkin, a RIAC member, and Dina Malysheva, Chief Researcher of the same institute. ...
On October 20, 2015, the Russian International Affairs Council hosted roundtable "
Russian and Western Views on Conflict Resolution and Security Challenges
" attended by pundits from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, the Brookings Institution, Johns Hopkins University, Centre for European Policy Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, IMEMO, Lomonosov Moscow State University and other institutions, who focused on the Ukraine and Syria crises.
The Ukraine discussion...
