Menu

United States Institute of Peace

Home ▶ Events

The Future of U.N. Peace Operations

A Discussion with the Secretary General's High-Level Panel

Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 / Time: 5:00am - 6:30am 

Center: Applied Conflict Transformation Center

Read the Event Coverage
Share This
Print the Page

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon created the High-level Independent Panel on U.N. Peace Operations on October 31, 2014, to undertake a comprehensive review of peace operations. On March 10 the U.S. Institute of Peace held a discussion with a delegation from the U.N. panel co-hosted with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs and the Better World Campaign.

20150310-The-Future-of-UN-Peace-event.gif
Pictured from left to right, George Lopez, Alexander Ilitchev, B. Lynn Pascoe, Bathsehba N. Crocker, H.E. Jose Ramos-Horta, Ms. Ameerah Haq, Antony Blinken

The independent panel was charged with reviewing the broad range of issues, including the changing nature of peacekeeping environments, evolving mandates, good offices and peacebuilding challenges, managerial and administrative reforms, planning, partnerships, human rights, and protection of civilians. Continue the conversation on Twitter with #FuturePeaceOps, @BetterWorldOrg, @State_IO, and @USIP.

Speakers

Mr. Antony Blinken, Keynote Address
Deputy Secretary of State

Mr. Jose Ramos-Horta, Remarks
Former President of Timor-Leste

Ambassador William Taylor, Welcoming Remarks
Acting Executive Vice President, USIP

Ambassador George Moose, Panel Introductory Remarks
Vice Chair, USIP Board of Directors

Ms. Sheba Crocker, Introductory Remarks
Assistant Secretary of State

Mr. Peter Yeo, Closing Remarks
Vice President of Public Policy, U.N. Foundation
President of the Better World Campaign

Other members of the High Panel participated in the Q&A session. Complete agenda.

Related Publications

As Russia Builds Influence in Africa, its Church Takes a Role

As Russia Builds Influence in Africa, its Church Takes a Role

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

By: Andrew Hoyle

Vladimir Putin’s campaign to make the world safe for violent authoritarianism visibly exploits conflicts and bolsters military rule in Africa with mercenary armies, internet-borne disinformation and weaponized corruption. A less recognized Russian effort to build influence in Africa is an expansion across the continent of the Russian Orthodox Church. As the Russian church’s overt support for Putin’s war on Ukraine has corroded its influence in the traditionally Orthodox Christian world, the Moscow Patriarchate is opening parishes and hiring priests away from the established African church.

Type: Analysis

Religion;  Global Policy

Ugandans Wield Faith and Youth Against Climate-Fueled Violence

Ugandans Wield Faith and Youth Against Climate-Fueled Violence

Thursday, July 18, 2024

By: Mona Hein

At age five, Muhsin Kaduyu began following his father, a respected imam in southern Uganda, on missions of peace — constant meetings, mediations, consolations and prayers among Muslims and Christians in their town and surrounding farmlands. So years later, Kaduyu felt sickened when Islamist suicide bombers killed 74 soccer fans in a crowd near his university, deforming and defaming his faith. That bombing, and an anti-Muslim backlash, ignited a life’s mission that has made Kaduyu a prominent peacebuilder among millions of Ugandans who struggle for survival, prosperity and peace amid communal conflicts, violent extremism and growing climate disaster.

Type: Analysis

Environment;  Religion;  Violent Extremism

Moldova: As Russia Fuels Conflict, Could Churches Build Peace?

Moldova: As Russia Fuels Conflict, Could Churches Build Peace?

Thursday, June 6, 2024

By: James Rupert

Russia’s escalating campaign to block Moldova from joining the European Union reflects a weakening in Eastern Europe of a longstanding Russian lever of regional influence: its Orthodox church. A number of Moldovan Orthodox priests and parishes are campaigning to withdraw their nation’s churches from two centuries of formal subordination to Russia’s church, and Moldova’s senior prelate has bluntly condemned his superior, the Russian Orthodox Church patriarch, for supporting Moscow’s war on Ukraine. As conflict escalates this year over Moldova’s future, advocates of European democracy and stability might strengthen both by supporting dialogue to reduce conflict between Moldova’s historically Russia-linked church and its smaller rival, subordinate to the Orthodox hierarchy in neighboring Romania.

Type: Analysis

Religion

View All Publications