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Author Catherine Guicherd

Catherine Guicherd

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  • Meeting Notes 03-14-2007by Catherine Guicherd, Rapporteur

    L ‘UA au Soudan: Enseignements pour la Force Africaine en Attente

    Ce rapport est le fruit de discussions qui se sont tenues entre une cinquantaine d’officiers de police et militaires africains, des représentants des pays partenaires et des organismes internationaux et humanitaires à Accra, au Ghana, du 10 au 12 Octobre 2006 en vue de contribuer au développement de la stratégie de mise en place de la […]

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    Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations
  • Meeting Notes 03-01-2007Catherine Guicherd, Rapporteur

    The AU in Sudan: Lessons for the African Standby Force

    This report stems from the discussions held among more than fifty senior police and military officers from African countries and partner nations and organizations at a seminar in Accra, Ghana, from October 10-12, 2006.

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    Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations
  • Meeting Notes 04-14-2006by Catherine Guicherd

    Reviving Chapter VIII: The United Nations and Regional Organizations–Partners for Peace

    This event, organized in partnership with the United Nations University Comparative Regional Integration Studies program (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges and the Institute of European Studies of the Free University of Brussels, took place on the eve of the constitutive meeting of a new Standing Committee created in 2005 to help deepen and institutionalize cooperation between the […]

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    Multilateral System, Regional Organizations
  • Meeting Notes 04-14-2006by Catherine Guicherd

    La Contribution de l’ONU au Renforcement des Capacitiés Africaines de Maintien de la Paix

    La présente note résume les débats tenus entre une quarantaine de représentants de missions permanentes auprès de l’ONU, du Département des opérations de maintien de la paix (DOMP), du Département des affaires politiques (DPA), de l’Union européenne, de l’OTAN et de quelques grands pays donateurs au cours d’une reunion organisée à New York le 20 […]

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    Multilateral System, Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations, Sustainable Development
  • Meeting Notes 04-14-2006Catherine Guicherd, April 2006

    The United Nations Contribution to African Capacity-Building for Peacekeeping

    This meeting note summarizes discussions among some forty participants from permanent missions to the United Nations, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the Department of Political Affairs, the European Union, NATO, and select donor capitals at a seminar held in New York on February 20, 2006.

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    Multilateral System, Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations, Sustainable Development
  • Meeting Notes 04-13-2006by Catherine Guicherd, rapporteur

    Building Partnerships for Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding between the United Nations and Regional Organizations

    On April 4-5, 2006, some thirty representatives of regional organizations (ROs), the United Nations, and experts from four continents convened in Vienna at the invitation of the International Peace Academy [now International Peace Institute] to examine how the UN and ROs could reinforce their cooperation in conflict prevention and peacebuilding.  The meeting grew out of […]

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    Regional Organizations

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