November 13 at 18.00 in SR 15.13 at the RESOWI Centre, 1st floor, section B.
Peacebuilding is a comprehensive endeavor that seeks to prevent a society from lapsing or lapsing into armed violence. In order to do so, it seeks to reconstruct a state’s political, societal, economic, and cultural infrastructures, demobilize militias, disarm and reintegrate them into society, reconcile a divided society etc. While various of the involved tasks appear challenging already on paper, they are even more complex on the ground. In most (post-)war contexts, the United Nations are the biggest organization coordinating and undertaking a wide variety of peacebuilding tasks.
Sokol Kondi will speak about his experiences as a UN staff member working in various field missions. He will reflect on the practical challenges of peacebuilding as well as on the issue of working within the large and complex system of the UN.
Sokol Kondi works for the United Nations Liaison Office for Peace and Security in Vienna. Prior to that, he served for seven years in New York with the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and the Department of Peace Operations, dealing with Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and the African Union. During 2000-2016 he served in different positions in UN field operations/missions in Iraq, Sudan, Kosovo and Timor Leste. For the period 1996-2000, he worked as Frist Secretary with the Permanent Mission of his home country Albania in New York. He studied Cultural Anthropology in Paris, France at EHESS and in the United States, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Organized by the Department of Global Governance at the Institute of the Foundations of Law at the University of Graz; moderated by Maximilian Lakitsch (DP Global Governance)
