The UN Commission of Inquiry and the war in the Syrian Arab Republic, 2011-2016: retrospect, introspect, prospect

 

With:

 

Paulo Pinheiro, Chair of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syrian Arab Republic

 

Introduced by Vanessa Scherrer, Vice Dean of Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), and discussed by Alvaro de Soto, Peruvian diplomat, former senior UN official, and lecturer at PSIA.

 

For over four years, the UN Commission has conducted its mandate amidst an armed conflict that has become steadily more deadly for the Syrian people. The conclusions of the Commission’s report on the war and the diplomatic process will be presented, and proposals opening the path to put an end to the violence cycle will be offered.

 

 

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro chairs the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syrian Arab Republic since September 2011. He was the UN Secretary-General´s Independent Expert to prepare the World Report on Violence against Children, 2006, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Burundi, 1995-1998 and later in Myanmar, 2000-2008 and member of UN Commissions of Inquiry on Timor Leste, 2005 and Togo, 2000. He has taught at the University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil ; Brown, Notre Dame and Columbia, USA ; Oxford, UK ; EHESS, Paris. Pinheiro was Minister of the secretariat of state for human rights, Brazil. He obtained his PHD in Politic Science at Sciences Po, 1971.