Announcing the UN DPPA Standby Team of Senior Mediation Advisors for 2025.

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The Team supports the UN, regional organizations, governments, civil society, in the design of mediation, facilitation and dialogue processes on a range of topics.

Great to be invited to speak at the Qatar Mediation Forum last week and to meet a range of different actors in Mediation - as practice in the field evolves.
It was a pleasure too to meet former and new colleagues: some left the UN or a country but are still very much around!

@undppa.bsky.social

Big thanks to Qatar and Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies for today's Qatar Mediation Forum!

📸 CCHS

What lessons can mediators learn from the Cambodia peace process of the 1980s?

In the report, Asif R. Khan looks back on an ambitious period in international peacemaking and extracts lessons from that time for mediators facing a very different multilateral reality today

Doha by night.
Quiet here, as not so far Syria quakes.

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#QatarMediationForum

📸 EEAS

Frank and productive exchanges this week in Brussels at the annual 🇪🇺EU-🇺🇳UN Strategic Dialogue on Conflict Prevention and Mediation.

We discussed the UN - EU relationship in peace and security and above all the implementation of the Pact for the Future.

Much to do for these partners in peace! 🕊️

Brussels evening thoughts, after Day 1:
one realises that months of online calls & "meetings" can't replace valued human, face to face encounters. Nuance, tic, raised eyebrow, smile, irony, consolations. Mediation is a human endeavour. So must be our interactions, quibbles w colleagues, adversaries.

“It is politically easier to make the case for funding missiles than mediators.”

Our President and CEO @comfortero.bsky.social argues that while global conflict is rising, peacemaking is still vital in @economist.com.

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Coming up: Brussels! 🇪🇺
Looking forward to 2 days of the EU-UN Dialogue on Mediation & Conflict Prevention this week. Also meeting with a host of supporters of diplomacy and good offices - in the EEAS, the Political & Security Committee and Commission.

To quote John Ruggie, multilateralism matters.

Best of luck to @nupinytt.bsky.social in new digs - and goodbye to "Hotel Cæsar"! With fond memories of my 2021-22 sabbatical there.

Are you a @UN Member State, regional organization or an entity actively engaged in mediation? Join the UN Secretary-General’s recently announced Common Pledge on women’s participation in peace processes!
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(The adopters' list in the link is updated regularly. )

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