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Crisis response: Moving beyond strategic games, ineffectiveness and indifference

Based on his UN extensive field experience and the current work with media, plus defence and peace building organizations, Victor Angelo will in this seminar discuss new trends in the international community´s response to major peace and security challenges
18 oktober 2013
11:30 Europe/Oslo
Språk:
NUPI
Seminar

 The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NUPI, has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar with Victor Angelo:

"Crisis response: Moving beyond strategic games, ineffectiveness and indifference"

Based on his UN extensive field experience and the current work with media, plus defense and peace building organizations, Victor Angelo will discuss new trends in the international community´s response to major peace and security challenges. As globalization advances, violent conflicts in a far flung corner of the world can easily gain a wider dimension and have a regional or even a larger impact. They also tend to have dramatic humanitarian consequences, hand in hand with extremely serious human rights violations.

Is the international machinery ready to address such threats in an urgent and comprehensive manner? What to do if the UN Security Council is unwilling to agree on an appropriate response? How to address the issues of urgency and comprehensiveness? Is development assistance, as practiced during the last decades, geared towards strengthening human security and reinforcing peace building? How is public opinion in the developed world being influenced when it comes to reacting to crisis in distant lands?  

Program 10.30-12.00:

  • Crisis response: Moving beyond strategic games, ineffectiveness and indifferenceVictor Angelo
  • CommentsDr. Kjell Hødnebø,
    TfP Manager, Section for Security Policy and North America, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway
  • Q&A

Victor Angelo
 is a former Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG, Peacekeeping Operations), at the level of Under Secretary-General,  and he has spent 32 years with the UN System. Currently, he is a board member of the Swiss peace building Foundation “PeaceNexus”; senior international consultant; columnist on international affairs of the Portuguese weekly magazine “Visão” (120 000 copies every week). He has written several academic and many weekly opinion papers (professional magazine writing).

Mr Angelo has extensive experience on UN affairs, Africa, development, humanitarian, security and political affairs, as well as on opinion-making and media.

18 oktober 2013
11:30 Europe/Oslo
Språk:
NUPI
Seminar