18.06.2015 | DIE/FIW/City of Bonn: Peacekeeping at the crossroads: Current challenges for the United Nations (Reminder)

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) along with the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW) of the University of Bonn and the Liaison Office International Academic Sciences of the UN City of Bonn are pleased to invite you to the third lecture in our UN lecture series (#UNat70BN):

Peacekeeping at the crossroads: Current challenges for the United Nations on Thursday, 18 June 2015, 17:00-19:00 h at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn.

Please register with your name and contact details here.

Conrad Schetter, Director for Research at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) and Francesco Galtieri, Chief of the Peace Programming Section at the UN Volunteers (UNV) will talk, among others, about the greatest challenges for the UN as a peacekeeper and what is needed to make it fit for future peacekeeping purposes?

‘Peacekeeping’ was created during the Cold War to provide space for political solutions to inter-state conflicts and, ultimately, to avoid the escalation of regional conflicts into conflicts between geopolitical super powers. Today, peace operations are billion-dollar enterprises that involve hundreds of thousands of military, police and civilian personnel the world around. In some cases, the UN is even asked to wage war on rebel armies. The increase and diversity in the demands for peacekeeping and the intricate environments in which it occurs present enormous challenges.

After the event, light refreshments will be served. The event will be held in English.

Background:

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. At this occasion, the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW) of the University of Bonn, the Liaison Office International Academic Sciences of the UN City of Bonn and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) jointly organised the public lecture series The United Nations at 70: Fit for “The Future we want”? Positioned at the interface of research and policy-making, it aims to review how some of the most pressing global challenges are addressed by the United Nations. Taking a long-term perspective, eminent experts will offer critical appraisals of the United Nations’ role in pertinent policy fields such as sustainable global development, peacekeeping, human and refugee rights or international climate policy and contextualise them in view of current processes and perennial reform debates. Ultimately, these talks will contribute to answering the question whether the UN is fit to deliver on the “future we want” – the rallying call of the United Nations’ “Rio+20” summit in 2012.

Source: Information by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) from 10.06.2015

The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) along with the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW) of the University of Bonn and the Liaison Office International Academic Sciences of the UN City of Bonn are pleased to invite you to the third lecture in our UN lecture series (#UNat70BN):

Peacekeeping at the crossroads: Current challenges for the United Nations on Thursday, 18 June 2015, 17:00-19:00 h at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn.

Please register with your name and contact details here.

Conrad Schetter, Director for Research at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) and Francesco Galtieri, Chief of the Peace Programming Section at the UN Volunteers (UNV) will talk, among others, about the greatest challenges for the UN as a peacekeeper and what is needed to make it fit for future peacekeeping purposes?

‘Peacekeeping’ was created during the Cold War to provide space for political solutions to inter-state conflicts and, ultimately, to avoid the escalation of regional conflicts into conflicts between geopolitical super powers. Today, peace operations are billion-dollar enterprises that involve hundreds of thousands of military, police and civilian personnel the world around. In some cases, the UN is even asked to wage war on rebel armies. The increase and diversity in the demands for peacekeeping and the intricate environments in which it occurs present enormous challenges.

After the event, light refreshments will be served. The event will be held in English.

Background:

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. At this occasion, the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW) of the University of Bonn, the Liaison Office International Academic Sciences of the UN City of Bonn and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) jointly organised the public lecture series The United Nations at 70: Fit for “The Future we want”? Positioned at the interface of research and policy-making, it aims to review how some of the most pressing global challenges are addressed by the United Nations. Taking a long-term perspective, eminent experts will offer critical appraisals of the United Nations’ role in pertinent policy fields such as sustainable global development, peacekeeping, human and refugee rights or international climate policy and contextualise them in view of current processes and perennial reform debates. Ultimately, these talks will contribute to answering the question whether the UN is fit to deliver on the “future we want” – the rallying call of the United Nations’ “Rio+20” summit in 2012.

Source: Information by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) from 10.06.2015