Summit Council Archives

From Summit Council for World Peace’s archives of published proceedings from 1987-97, we present below four proceedings that remain of timely interest, dealing with Korean reunification, U.S.-DPRK relations, and with Middle East peace. Clicking on either the thumbnail or title of each proceeding will download a PDF file of the full-text.

Inaugural Meeting of the International Commission for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea

September 8-10, 1991
Washington, DC

The inaugural meeting of Summit Council’s International Commission for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea was held in September 1991 in Washington, DC. Composed of five former heads of state and government, led by H.E. Rodrigo Carazo, former president of Costa Rica, and assisted by former senior government officials, prominent Asian scholars and international economic experts, the Commission’s overall goal was to be a facilitator and advisor to the process of dialogue and negotiations for future Korean reunification. On the foundation of this first meeting, the late North Korean President Kim Il Sung invited the Commission to Pyongyang in 1992 and 1994. This engagement with the North Korean leadership by former heads of state and government helped lay the foundation for former President Carter’s successful journey to Pyongyang in June 1994 that defused the first nuclear crisis.

American Foreign Policy and the Future of the Two Koreas, I

American Foreign Policy and the Future of the Two Koreas, II

December 17, 1992 and March 29, 1993
Washington, DC

As the first North Korean nuclear issue caused heightening American concern at the beginning of the first Clinton administration, the Summit Council twice convened a group of top Korean affairs experts and former senior government officials, chaired by the late Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr., former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in Washington in December 1992 and again in March 1993. These roundtables helped set the stage for the first high-level U.S.-DPRK dialogue ever that began by June 1993.

The Middle East in the 1990s and World Peace

May 23-24, 1993
Washington, DC

Although the world still did not know about the secret ongoing Oslo process between Israel and the Palestinians, this Summit Council roundtable foreshadowed the changes to come that led to the Oslo Peace Accords and White House Rose Garden ceremony presided by President Clinton in September 1993. Chaired by the late Amb. Robert G. Neumann, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, top Middle East experts from the region and the U.S. discussed ways to find a true and lasting peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors at a time everyone sensed was filled with new opportunity.