This event launched a United Nations University Centre for Policy Research and Stimson Center joint publication titled The Political Practice of Peacekeeping: How Strategies for Peace Operations are Developed and Implemented. Based on five in-depth case studies of the largest peacekeeping operations today and drawing on insights from senior UN leaders, the publication explores how the UN develops and implements political strategies in some of the most complex and dangerous places in the world.
Speakers at the event included Victoria K. Holt, Vice President, Stimson Center; Karin Landgren, Executive Director, Security Council Report; Ameerah Haq, former vice-chair, High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations and former Special Representative of the Secretary-General; Major General (Ret.) Patrick Cammaert, former General officer commanding the Eastern Division MONUC; and Adam Day, Director of Programmes, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research.