Mandating Peacekeeping Operations and other Challenges for South Africa s Security Council Membership" March 21-25, 2011 New York

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1 Mandating Peacekeeping Operations and other Challenges for South Africa s Security Council Membership" March 21-25, 2011 New York Final Program Version 3/21/2011 Numerous pressing issues await South Africa s diplomats as the country has re-entered the Security Council in Regarding the Council s core business formulating the appropriate mandate for UN peacekeeping operations tightened resources are juxtaposed by a demand for increasingly complex mandates. And while the UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations and its New Horizon process anticipates doing more with less, this approach is not always reflected by the mandates that the Security Council adopts. Meanwhile, the Department of Political Affairs is exploring ways to manage crisis and achieve peace with political rather than military means by operationalizing special political missions. To put challenges for mandating and implementing UN peacekeeping operations in a broader context, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) together with the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University and the Permanent Mission of South Africa to the UN hosts a week-long program from March 21-25, It will give a group of selected highlevel South African policy makers and multipliers the opportunity to gain first-hand insights into the challenges that lie ahead of South Africa s tenure at the Security Council. The program will approach the issue of peacekeeping reform against the backdrop of shifting norms and policy challenges in the international governance of peace and security (e.g. the responsibility to protect; conflict mediation; the relationship between peacekeeping and peacebuilding). Moreover, special attention will be given to the dynamics of the newly composed Security Council, due to the new members that vie for a permanent seat, the potential for coordination among African countries, and the resurging interest of the United States in Africa. To achieve the most comprehensive exchange of ideas, the program combines various formats of meetings, such as the group s bilateral conversations with high-ranking UN officials, small-scale seminars, and a public event with diplomats, UN secretariat staff and experts from the wider UN-community. 1

2 The following South African policy makers will participate: 1) Ms. Ayanda Dlodlo, ANC Sub-Committee for International Relations and Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration; 2) Mr. Joe Lauria, UN Correspondent, The Star, Capetown; 3) Ms. Frankye Bronwen Levy, DIRCO, Pretoria. 4) Mr. Hargreaves Tisetso Magama, MP, Chairperson of the Parliamentary portfolio Committee on International Relations; 5) Dr. Lesley Masters, Senior Researcher, Institute for Global Dialogue, Pretoria; 6) Mr. Sagaren Naidoo, Director Defence Policy Formulation, South African Department of Defence; 7) Mr. Hopewell Radebe, Associate Editor of Business Day; 8) Ms. Nomfanelo Kota, Counsellor Political Affairs, Permanent Mission of South Africa to the UN; 9) Professor Anthoni van Nieuwkerk, Centre for Defence and Security Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Day 1: Monday, March 21, Introductory Seminars Morning Seminar 1: 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Challenges for South Africa s Security Council Membership (Briefing led by Ambassador Baso Sangqu, Permanent Mission of South Africa to the UN) Permanent Mission of South Africa to the UN 333 East 38th Street (btw. 1 st and 2 nd Aves), 9th Floor New York, N.Y Morning Seminar 2: 11:15 a.m. 12:45 p.m. The state of the UN (led by Jake Sherman Deputy Director CIC and Werner Puschra Director FES New York Office) 501 Lexington Avenue (btw. 47 th and 48 th Street) New York, New York

3 Lunch Meeting: 1:15 p.m. 2:45 p.m (Ambassadorial Lunch Ambassador Sangqu will host a lunch for participants, organizers, and selected ambassadors from UNSC members) Residence of South Africa to the UN 500 Park Avenue (corner of 59 th Street) Afternoon: Free Day 2: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Bilateral Meetings and Thematic Seminars 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Bilateral Meeting with Edward Luck (Special Adviser to the UN Secretary- General on the Responsibility to Protect and Senior Vice President of the IPI IPI 777 United Nations Plaza New York, N.Y :00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Conflict Prevention and Crisis Mediation (two seminars with the UN Department for Political Affairs - DPA) DPA rd Avenue (btw. 45 th and 46 th Street) Room TB (DPA Conference Room, 10 th Floor) Seminar 1: 12:00 p.m -1:15 p.m. The New Tools of Conflict Prevention and Management (Special political Missions, mediation, electoral assistance, seminar chaired by Mr. Levent Bilman Director, Policy and Mediation Division; with short presentations by Policy Planning Unit, Mediation Support Unit and Electoral Assistance Division) Lunch Break (lunch will be provided) Seminar 2: 1:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Discussion on Africa Regional Issues (Chaired by Mr. João Honwana, Director of the Africa I Division) (tbc.) Afternoon: Free 3

4 Day 3: Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 Bilateral Meetings and Thematic Seminars Morning Seminars: 9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. UN operations under strain: Richard Gowan, Associate Director, CIC, presenting new Reviews of Peace Operations and Political Missions 10:30 a.m. 12:00 p.m. UN operations under strain: The DPKO Perspective commentary by Jack Christofides, Sudan Team Leader UNDPKO. Lunch Seminar: 1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. The Responsibility to Protect (seminar with the Global Center on the Responsibility to Protect; chaired by Monica Serrano, Executive Director, GCR2P; with Joanna Weschler, Deputy Executive Director, Security Council Report and Fabienne Hara, Vice President, Multilateral Affairs, International Crisis Group) CUNY Graduate Center th Avenue (34 th Street); Conference Room 8201 Afternoon Seminar: 4:00 p.m. 6:p.m. Security Council: Current Politics and Reform Efforts (led by Ambassador Colin Keating, Director Security Council Report) Security Council Report One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza 885 Second Avenue (at 48 th Street), 21 st Floor Day 4: Thursday, March 24, 2011 Public Event, Bilateral Meetings and Thematic Seminars Morning Sessions: Topics: 9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. (1) Nuclear Non-Proliferation: What Role for the UN? (Discussion led by W. Pal Sidhu, Senior Fellow at CIC) (tbc.) 4

5 (2) US view of the UN in Global Peace and Security Governance (with Jeffrey Laurenti, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation. Center on International Cooperation at New York University 726 Broadway, Suite 543 New York, NY Lunch Discussion: 1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Challenges for South African Foreign Policy Makers (presentations by South African Delegation to an audience of UN Secretariat officials, diplomats, and Think Thank Experts; with the participation of Mr. Doctor Mashabane, Deputy Permanent Representative of South Africa to the UN) UN Headquarters, Private Delegates Dining Room Afternoon Sessions: 3:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Bilateral Meetings with UN Secretary-General s Executive Office: Nicholas Haysom, Director for Political Affairs. UN Headquarters, Temporary North Lawn Building 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Bilateral Meeting with Ambassador Miguel Berger (Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN) Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN 871 United Nations Plaza (btw. 48 th and 49 th Street) New York, N.Y Day 5: Friday, March 25, 2011 Bilateral Meetings and Thematic Seminars Morning Session: 10:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Peacekeeping Reform (Discussion with David Haeri, Chief of the Best Practices Section, Department of Peacekeeping Operations) 380 Madison Avenue, 19 th Floor New York, N.Y Lunch Meeting: 1:00 p.m. 2:45 p.m. African Coordination in UNSC and UN-AU relations Ambassador Tete Antonio, Permanent Observer of the AU to the UN. 5

6 Afternoon Meeting: 3:15 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Program Wrap-up (debriefing led by Ambassador Baso Sangqu, Permanent Mission of South Africa to the UN; with Bruce D. Jones and Werner Puschra Permanent Mission of South Africa to the UN Day 6: Saturday, March 26, 2011 Transfer from the Millennium Hotel to the airport and departure from New York 6