On Wednesday 10 February 2010 Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University spoke on 'Peacekeeping and Stability'.
Jean-Marie Guéhenno, former U.N. Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, leads research into strategies for peacekeeping and peace-building, addressing the challenges to international action that have been highlighted by events in Darfur, Afghanistan and eastern Congo. At this meeting, Mr Guéhenno discussed how to overcome challenges to an integrated peacekeeping approach, looking at specific case studies, addressing lessons learned, and projecting into the future.
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Jean-Marie Guéhenno is a Non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution and the Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. Formerly, as the Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations from 2000 to 2008, he led the largest expansion of peacekeeping in the history of the United Nations, overseeing approximately 130,000 staff on 18 missions. Before joining the United Nations, Mr. Guéhenno had a distinguished career in the French Government as director of policy planning in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ambassador to the Western European Union, the chairman of the French Institute of Higher Defense Studies.
Mr. Guéhenno is the Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and a member of the board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva. He is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, the Institut d’Eudes Politiques, and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA).
This discussion was moderated by Adam Ward, Director of Studies at the IISS. It will take place in the Lee Kuan Yew Conference Room at Arundel House, 13–15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3DX.
