Chairing Sessions of EU informal CONUN Meeting on Sustaining Peace

On 21 April 2016, I had the honour to be invited by the Chairman of the European Council's preparatory committee dealing with United Nations matters (CONUN - the United Nations Working Party) to chair two out of the four sessions dealing with the EU's potential role in contributing to the United Nations' efforts in building and sustaining peace. The informal meeting brought together representatives from all 28 member states ahead of the UN General Assembly meeting in May 2016. My input also drew on the results of our policy research on UN peacebuilding and peacekeeping as well as UN-EU Cooperation and synthesised some of the insights from our co-organized regional European consultations of the UN High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO) in February 2015.