Academy
of Diplomacy Partners with UNA-USA to Discuss UN Peacekeeping
Academy of Diplomacy, in collaboration with
the United Nations Association (UNA)-USA
and UNA-Minnesota, hosted a panel discussion in Minneapolis on November
7, 2007 on UN peacekeeping. As UN peacekeeping is very active at this
time with eighteen missions around the world comprising over 80,000 soldiers
and police, discussion of the opportunities and challenges peacekeeping
faces is a very pertinent theme in US foreign policy today.
Attracting a wide array of distinguished speakers, the panel discussion
was held at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Academy Member and Ambassador
Bruce Laingen welcomed panelists, which featured: Brian Atwood, former
Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, Undersecretary
for Management, and Administrator of USAID, and now president of the Hubert
Humphrey Institute; Bill Swing, former Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa,
Nigeria, Haiti, and Congo, and currently director of MONUC, the largest
peacekeeping operation in the Congo; and Dr. William J. Durch, Co-director
of the Future of the Peace Operations Project at the Stimson Center in
Washington . Former US Senator, Vice President, and Ambassador to Japan
Walter Mondale presided the evening lecture. Event sponsors also had the
pleasure of welcoming Carol Sisco, daughter of the late Joseph Sisco.
This event is part of the Sisco Memorial Series, an American Academy of
Diplomacy program created in memory of the late Joseph J. Sisco, former
Chairman of the Academy.
>Access
the presentation given by Dr. William Durch on "Contemporary Peacekeeping:
Does Defending the Weak Mean Converging Toward War?"
>Read more about the Sisco Memorial
Series
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