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EGMONT Expert seminar - Fighting for Peace in Somalia


Event Invitation

Egmont - the Royal Institute for International Relations,
has the honour to invite you to an expert seminar

 
Fighting for Peace in Somalia:
The African Union's War against al-Shabaab


with Prof. Paul D. Williams
 
Date: 24 May 2019
Time: 13:30 - 14:00  Registration
           14:00 - 16:00  Conference
Venue: Egmont Palace, 8 bis, Place du Petit Sablon, 1000 Brussels

The Egmont Institute has the pleasure to invite you to an expert seminar on 24 May 2019
with Professor Paul D. Williams, Associate Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

Drawing from his new book, Fighting for Peace in Somalia, Prof. Paul Williams will present an overview of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world's deadliest militant organizations, Harakat al-Shabaab.

He will summarize AMISOM’s history over the last twelve years and discuss the mission's six most important challenges, namely, logistics, security sector reform, civilian protection, strategic communications, stabilization, and developing a successful exit strategy. These issues are all central to the broader debates about how to design effective peace operations in Africa and beyond.

Practical information:

The working language of the event will be English.
The meeting is on personal invitation only.

Places are limited so we kindly ask that you register by 17 May at the latest, by sending an e-mail to conferences@egmontinstitute.be.

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