Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Date: 12 - 14 December, 2004
Hosted by: Princeton University

Context: "While 9/11 has had a profound and extensive political, social and economic impact, and while fear persists that it could be a prologue to a much more deadly and costly future, international consensus on the importance of the terrorist phenomenon and on the most availing response to it is scarce. There is an urgent need to develop a common, viable understanding on the way forward. A carefully prepared and circumspectly managed approach to terrorism might help reconcile dissonant views and contradictory practices and make a common counterterror/counter-proliferation strategy possible."

"The answer may lie in creating an informal caucus of the leaders of broadly capable countries to complement existing organizations and institutions. Such a group would be small enough in number to permit efficient dialogue, representative enough geographically and culturally to be credible and effective enough to transcend or, at least, narrow political divides on the issue of terrorism. A leaders group of 20 (an LG 20), with membership patterned approximately after the Finance Ministers? G 20 would meet these tests and could generate a relatively tightly focused and intimate discussion. The goal would be an agreed outcome that the group would commend to existing institutions and the rest of the international community."

Papers

Graham Allison		What can the G20 leaders do to prevent terrorists’ WMD attacks?
Paul Krugman		The Costs of Terrorism: What do We Know?
Kenneth Roth		Counterterrorism and Human Rights: An Essential Alliance
Sundeep Waslekar		War On Terror: Clash Of Civilizations Or Civilization Versus Chaos?
Paul Wilkinson		What an LG20 could do to address the issue of -- Armies, agents or diplomats: what works?
Paul Wilkinson		Responding to the Global Terrorist Threat from Al Qaeda Network and its Affiliates

Backgrounders

Paul Heinbecker and Wesley Wark		How Could a Leaders’ Level G20 Make a difference?
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs		The Nexus of Terrorism & WMD - Developing a Cons