Lunch conferentie · 25 februari 2019 om 12h00
Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria
THE CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH.
LA CONFÉRENCE SE DONNERA EN FRANÇAIS ET EN ANGLAIS.
« How to try to stop international wildfires ? Successes, failures and lessons learned »
Envoyé Spécial de l'ONU en Syrie, Staffan de Mistura, l’homme des missions impossibles au service de la paix, nous entretiendra sur le rôle de la diplomatie dans la résolution de conflits.
Peace and conflict expert Staffan de Mistura, a Swedish-Italian top UN diplomat, will share with us lessons learned from his successive assignments in the most volatile trouble-spots of the globe, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, former Yugoslavia, and more recently Syria.
What can be the role of diplomacy in conflict zones ?
How to reform constitutions, organize elections in the most remote and desolate places of the globe, sometimes in the middle of famines and epidemics ?
How to initiate and maintain negotiation process in major conflict areas ?
How to bring parties at war to the negotiation table ?
While each context is unique, are there recipes for success ?
While each conflict has its specificities, is there a method to prevent catastrophes, avoid failures, bring peace ?
BIO EXPRESS :
• Developed a career of more than 40 years with UN agencies
• In July 2014 : appointed by Ban Ki Moon as UN Special Envoy for Syria
• Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Iraq (2007-2009) and Afghanistan (2010-2011)
• Held senior political and humanitarian assignments in Lebanon and Iraq
• Served as Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme
• In 2011 : appointed as Italy's Deputy Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Mario Monti
• Is a national of Italy and Sweden
• Speaks seven languages
LA CONFÉRENCE SE DONNERA EN FRANÇAIS ET EN ANGLAIS.
« How to try to stop international wildfires ? Successes, failures and lessons learned »
Envoyé Spécial de l'ONU en Syrie, Staffan de Mistura, l’homme des missions impossibles au service de la paix, nous entretiendra sur le rôle de la diplomatie dans la résolution de conflits.
Peace and conflict expert Staffan de Mistura, a Swedish-Italian top UN diplomat, will share with us lessons learned from his successive assignments in the most volatile trouble-spots of the globe, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, former Yugoslavia, and more recently Syria.
What can be the role of diplomacy in conflict zones ?
How to reform constitutions, organize elections in the most remote and desolate places of the globe, sometimes in the middle of famines and epidemics ?
How to initiate and maintain negotiation process in major conflict areas ?
How to bring parties at war to the negotiation table ?
While each context is unique, are there recipes for success ?
While each conflict has its specificities, is there a method to prevent catastrophes, avoid failures, bring peace ?
BIO EXPRESS :
• Developed a career of more than 40 years with UN agencies
• In July 2014 : appointed by Ban Ki Moon as UN Special Envoy for Syria
• Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Iraq (2007-2009) and Afghanistan (2010-2011)
• Held senior political and humanitarian assignments in Lebanon and Iraq
• Served as Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme
• In 2011 : appointed as Italy's Deputy Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Mario Monti
• Is a national of Italy and Sweden
• Speaks seven languages
