Interventions in Fragile States: Securing Peace or Effective State-Building?

Recent experiences around the world have caused the international community to reassess the assumption that multilateral operations for institutional reform and post-conflict state-building could render fragile states capable.

At the heart of the debate are two questions: should such operations be sustained for longer, with greater harmonisation and alignment, better sequencing, and even at times a call to ramp up direct sovereign engagements ? Or should such operations be limited to resolving immediate threats to international and regional peace and security without becoming entrenched in protracted operations?

In an increasingly complex global environment, where many security threats emanate directly from the weakness of national institutions and domestic instability, a panel of specialists will discuss these questions through a diversity of perspectives linking military, developmental, gender-based and diplomatic-oriented analysis. Panelists will draw upon comparative experiences from Latin America, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Speakers:

• Jago Salmon, Head of the UN Coordination Office in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Judith Gardner, Independent consultant on gender, peace and conflict, Lecturer on “Gender & Challenges of state-collapse, peace and state-building”, Sciences Po
• Miguel Barreto Henriques, Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
• Virginie Collombier, Scientific coordinator of the Middle East Directions Programme, European University Institute.

Moderator: Aghiad Ghanem, Doctoral candidate, SciencesPo (CERI)
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