Coping With Peacebuilding Complexity: Cedric de Coning at TEDxDeusto

Cedric de Coning is a research fellow with NUPI and a peacekeeping and peacebuilding advisor for ACCORD. He is also a special advisor to the Head of the Peace Support Operations Division of the African Union and a member of the Advisory Group of the UN Peacebuilding Fund. He started his career as a South African diplomat in Washington D.C. and Addis Abeban, and he has served the OAU and the UN in different positions worlwide. In his talk, Cedric the Coning exposes the importance of a bottom-up and inclusive approach in peacebuilding and peacekeeping.

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