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The United Nations and international peace and security: Navigating a divided world? British perspectives

Programme

1000-1015 Welcome and introduction

Mr Edward Mortimer CMG, President of the British Association of Former United Nations Civil Servants (BAFUNCS) 1015-1130 Session 1: The UK on the Security Council: Assessing the Record after 70 Years

Chair: Dame Glynne Evans

Panellist 1: Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York

Panellist 2: Mr Andrew Whitley, Policy and Advocacy Director, The Elders

Respondent 1: Mr Sam Daws, Director, Project on UN Governance and Reform, Centre for International Studies, Oxford University

Respondent 2: Mr Yves Doutriaux, former Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the UN

1130-1145 Refreshment break 1145-1300 Session 2: Prevention and early action

Chair: Professor Dominik Zaum, University of Reading

Panellist 1: Lord Williams of Baglan, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Chatham House

Panellist 2: Sir Kieran Prendergast

Respondent 1: Dr Jennifer Welsh, UN Special Adviser for the Responsibility to Protect

Respondent 2: Dr Francesc Vendrell, former UN Mediator at the Department of Political Affairs 1 The United Nations at 70 - Witness seminar 3 13 January 2016, Church House,

1300-1400 Lunch

1400-1515 Session 3: Peacekeeping and peacebuilding

Chair: Professor Mats Berdal, King's College London

Panellist 1: Dr Babu Rahman, Deputy Head of Research Analysts, Multilateral Policy Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Panellist 2: Mr Jonathan Prentice, Director of London Office, International Crisis Group

Respondent 1: Mr Quentin Teisseire, Political Counsellor, Embassy of France in the UK

Respondent 2: Mr Tihomir Loza, Executive Director, South East European Network for Professionalization of Media

1515-1545 Refreshment break

1545-1700 Session 4: Lessons and recommendations from seven decades in international peace and security

Chair: Sir Jeremy Greenstock, Chair, United Nations Association - UK

Panellist 1: Sir , National Security Adviser, Cabinet Office

Respondent 1: Professor Sir Adam Roberts,

Respondent 2: Mr Paul Williams, Director, Multilateral Policy Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

1700-1715 Concluding remarks Sir Jeremy Greenstock

1715-1900 Reception Introduction: Sir Jeremy Greenstock

Reception remarks: Lord Malloch-Brown, former UN Deputy Secretary- General

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Speakers

Professor Mats Berdal – Professor of Security and Development, King’s College London Professor Mats Berdal is Professor of Security and Development at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London (KCL) and Director of the Conflict, Security and Development Research Group at KCL. Originally from Norway, Professor Berdal gained a BSc from the London School of Economics in 1988 and a DPhil from Oxford in 1992. From 2000 to 2003 he was Director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

Mr Sam Daws – Director, Project on UN Governance and Reform, Centre for International Studies, Oxford University Mr Sam Daws has served in a variety of UN related roles for over two decades. From 2012 to 2013 he was Deputy Director (United Nations, Prime Minister’s Post-2015 team) in the UK Cabinet Office, a role that included supporting the Prime Minister as Co-Chair of the UN High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. He previously served as Senior Principal Research Analyst in the Multilateral Policy Directorate of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and was Executive Director of the United Nations Association – UK from 2004 to 2010. Mr Daws was the UK Representative to the United Nations Foundation and from 2000 to 2003 was First Officer to UN Secretary-General in New York.

Mr Yves Doutriaux – Former Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the UN Mr Yves Doutriaux has been a member of the Conseil d’Etat since 2007, having previously served as ambassador to the Organisation for Cooperation and Security in Europe in Vienna (2003 to 2007). He lectures as a professor at the Université Paris I and the Université Paris- Dauphine. Mr Doutriaux served as Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations in New York in 1998 to 2002, and as consul general of France in Toronto, Canada between 1992 and 1995.

Dame Glynne Evans Dame Glynne Evans was a University lecturer before becoming a career diplomat. She spent about 13 years of her Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) career involved with the UN, including UN Law of the Sea negotiations, secondment to the UN Security Council Secretariat, UKMIS New York and 6 years as Head of the UN Department at the FCO between 1990-6. She was a delegate to many UN international conferences, and lectured regularly at staff colleges on peacekeeping and conflict management. On sabbatical she was a Research Associate at the International Institute of Strategic Studies and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the NATO Defence College. She was Ambassador to Chile and to Portugal. Since retiring, Dame Glynne works as a security consultant.

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Sir Jeremy Greenstock – Chair of the United Nations Association – UK (UNA-UK) Sir Jeremy Greenstock was a career diplomat from 1969 to 2004, serving in a number of postings, including in Dubai, Washington, , Paris and New York. He served as Political Director in London from 1996 to 1998, as UK Ambassador to the UN in New York from 1998 to 2003 and as UK Special Envoy for from 2003 to 2004. After retiring from government service, Sir Jeremy directed the Ditchley Foundation from 2004 to 2010 and worked as a special adviser to BP during the same period. He is currently Chairman of UNA-UK, Chairman of strategic advisory company Gatehouse Advisory Partners Ltd and Chairman of Lambert Energy Advisory Ltd.

Mr Tihomir Loza – Executive Director, South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) Originally from Bosnia, Mr Tihomir Loza has worked for a number of media outlets, including the Oslobodjenje Daily and Nasi Dani Magazine, as well as for BBC TV and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Before joining SEENPM, Mr Loza was deputy director of Transitions, a Prague based media development organisation with projects in the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. At SEENPM, Mr Loza serves as the main public contact and spokesperson, working closely with the Board and General Assembly to reach the network’s strategic objectives, including raising SEENPM’s profile and visibility and improving internal communication and interaction among its members.

Sir Mark Lyall Grant – National Security Adviser, Cabinet Office Sir Mark Lyall Grant is a career diplomat, and has served on four continents. Earlier in his career he worked in Paris and Pretoria; as Private Secretary to the Minister for Europe at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO); and worked on EU and Africa Policy. He was the UK High Commissioner to Pakistan (2003 to 2006), Director General Political in the FCO (2007 to 2009) and the UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2009 to 2015). He took up the role of Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser on 7 September 2015.

Lord Malloch-Brown – Former United Nations Deputy Secretary- General Lord Malloch-Brown served as Deputy Secretary General and Chief of Staff at the UN under Kofi Annan. He began his career as a journalist at The Economist, moving on to hold a range of positions including; Vice-Chairman of the World Economic Forum, lead international partner at political consultancy Sawyer Miller, Vice- Chairman of George Soros’s Investment Funds and Open Society Institute and was a Vice President at the World Bank. Lord Malloch-Brown was previously Administrator of the UN Development Programme and Minister of State in the Foreign Office, serving as a member of ’s Cabinet. He now sits in the House of Lords and serves as a special adviser for FTI Consulting. 4 The United Nations at 70 - Witness seminar 3 13 January 2016, Church House, London

Mr Edward Mortimer CMG – President of the British Association of Former United Nations Civil Servants (BAFUNCS) Mr Edward Mortimer started his career at The Times; where he was a foreign correspondent and editorial writer for eighteen years, moving on to serve as a foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times in 1987. In 1998, he was appointed as Kofi Annan’s Chief Speechwriter at the UN, a role he held until 2006 (combining it with that of Director of Communications from 2001). After leaving the UN, Mr Mortimer worked as Senior Vice-President & Chief Program Officer of the Salzburg Global Seminar (2007 to 2012) and chair of the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice (2010 to 2015). He has been the President of BAFUNCS since 2011, and a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford since 2013.

Sir Kieran Prendergast – Former United Nations Under-Secretary- General Sir Kieran started his diplomatic career at the British Embassy in , before being posted to the NATO department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He then worked in , The Hague, New York and Tel Aviv, later going on to serve as High Commissioner to and , before returning to Ankara as Ambassador to . In March 1997, Sir Kieran was appointed as UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, a role he held until 2005. Since his retirement from the UN, he has served on the Advisory Council of Independent Diplomat and as Chairman of the Anglo-Turkish Society.

Mr Jonathan Prentice – Director of London Office and Senior Advocacy Adviser, International Crisis Group Prior to joining Crisis Group, Mr Jonathan Prentice worked with the United Nations for sixteen years in political analysis, peacekeeping and human rights. He served at headquarters in both New York and Geneva, as well as in Cambodia, East Timor (up to independence), Iraq and Indonesia. He has conducted a number of fact-finding missions, including in Afghanistan and Darfur/Chad, and was part of the UN's emergency response to Haiti in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake. He has been with Crisis Group since August 2010 and currently oversees Crisis Group's engagement with the UK government and other UK-based partners, as well as coordinating Crisis Group's advocacy throughout Europe.

Dr Babu Rahman - Deputy Head of Research Analysts, Multilateral Policy Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Babu Rahman has been a British diplomat since October 1998. He is a member of the Research Analysts cadre in the Diplomatic Service of which he is currently Deputy Head. His role is to provide policy focused but policy neutral research, analysis and advice to UK policy makers on the UN and many of the thematic issues it deals with, particularly international peace and security and human rights. During his career he has also performed a number of front-line diplomatic roles, including as a member of UK delegations to the UN General Assembly, the former UN 5 The United Nations at 70 - Witness seminar 3 13 January 2016, Church House, London

Commission on Human Rights and a number of international conferences. He has worked alongside UK and NATO forces and in 2006 served at the UK Embassy in Kabul. Between 2009 and 2011 he was seconded to the UK’s cross-government Stabilisation Unit where he led the deployment of UK civilian expertise in support of the Libyan revolution. Between 2013 and 2015 he took leave from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to serve as Senior Special Assistant to the UN SRSG to , based in Mogadishu. He holds a PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University and was awarded an OBE in 2015.

Professor Sir Adam Roberts – Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford Professor Sir Adam Roberts is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies in Oxford University’s Department of Politics and International Relations. He is also Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Roberts was previously President of the British Academy (2009 to 2013) and a member of the UK Defence Academy Advisory Board (2003 to 2015).

Ambassador Matthew Rycroft – UK Permanent Representative to United Nations in New York Ambassador Matthew Rycroft became the UK’s Permanent Representative at the UN in New York in 2015. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1989 and was recently the Board’s Chief Operating Officer. He was previously British Ambassador to Bosnia and earlier in his career had postings in Washington, Paris and the UN in Geneva. In the UK, he worked as the FCO Europe Director and was the Prime Minister’s Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2004.

Mr Quentin Teisseire – Political Counsellor, Embassy of France in the UK Political Counsellor at the French embassy in London, Mr Quentin Teisseire has worked for the past 10 years on African affairs and peacekeeping, including in Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania. He was deputy head of the East and Horn of Africa Department in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs before joining the French Embassy in London. During these years, he has worked extensively on peacekeeping operations in Africa, the evolution of peacekeeping doctrine and integration of UN Peacekeeping Operations with other military forces.

Dr Francesc Vendrell – Former United Nations Mediator at the Department of Political Affairs In a diplomatic career spanning more than forty years, Dr Francesc Vendrell has been involved in mediating a number of conflicts. His roles have included; EU special representative for Afghanistan; UN Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, East Timor, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Myanmar, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Central America; he has served as director of the Asia and Pacific Division at the UN 6 The United Nations at 70 - Witness seminar 3 13 January 2016, Church House, London

Department of Political Affairs and as director for Europe and Americas in the Office of the UN Secretary-General. More recently, Dr Vendrell has served as Mediator-in- Residence at the UN Department of Political Affairs (2014 to 2015), as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics since 2011, Chair of the Board of the Afghanistan Analysts Network since 2010 and Senior Adviser at Inter-Mediate since 2012.

Dr Jennifer Welsh – United Nations Special Adviser for the Responsibility to Protect Dr Jennifer Welsh was appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon in 2013 to serve as his Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect. Currently a Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute in Florence, Dr Welsh was previously Professor of International Relations and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict Studies Programme and has published widely on the responsibility to protect and atrocity prevention. She has worked as a consultant to the Government of Canada on international policy and has been a frequent commentator in the Canadian media on foreign policy and international relations. Mr Andrew Whitley – Policy and Advocacy Director, The Elders Andrew Whitley joined The Elders in 2011. For the previous sixteen years, he worked for the United Nations in East Timor, Kosovo, Gaza, Jerusalem, Geneva and New York, concluding his UN Career as Director of the Representative Office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), based in the . Earlier in his career, Mr Whitley worked as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and Latin America with the BBC and the Financial Times.

Lord Williams of Baglan – Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Chatham House Lord Williams started his career with Amnesty International, before joining the BBC World Service in 1984. He later moved to the United Nations where he was based in Cambodia as Deputy Director for Human Rights; in former Yugoslavia as Director for Information; Geneva as Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and New York as Director, Office for Children and Armed Conflict. Between 2000 and 2005 he was Special Adviser to two Foreign Secretaries: Robin Cook, and then . He served as UN Under-Secretary-General for the Middle East and UN Special Coodinator for Lebanon between 2006 and 2011. He was made a member of the House of Lords in 2011 and has been a Trustee of the BBC since 2011.

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Mr Paul Williams – Director, Multilateral Policy Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Mr Paul Williams joined the FCO in 1997, working in the EU Department of the Institutions Unit for four years before moving to serve at the British Embassy in Berlin. He later returned to work in the Cabinet Office in London, before being appointed Head of International Trade at the FCO in 2006. Since then, his roles have included Head of EU and G8 Foreign Policy at the FCO, Finance and Reform Counsellor at the UK Mission to the UN in New York and Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In June 2015, Mr Williams took up his current position as Multilateral Policy Director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Professor Dominik Zaum – Research Dean for Prosperity and Resilience, University of Reading Professor Zaum is Research Dean for Prosperity and Resilience; and Professor of Governance, Conflict and Security at the University of Reading. Following a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (2000) and an MPhil in International Relations (2002), he completed his DPhil in International Relations at Oxford University in 2005. In 2004 he took up a Rose Research Fellowship in International Relations at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and joined the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading in 2006. From 2011 to 2015, he was a Senior Research Fellow in Conflict and Fragility at the UK’s Department for International Development.

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