Longtime mediator speaks on post-conflict interventions in Burundi, Congo
Alain Lempereur will speak on “Empowering Local Leadership for Peace: Evidence from Post-Conflict Interventions in Burundi and the DR Congo” on Thursday, April 11 at noon in 423 Tobin Hall as part of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Conflict and Violence Series on Best Practices in International Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding.All stages in a post-conflict intervention allow a facilitation team to get the buy-in and direct involvement of local leaders. Evidence will be provided by the work of the Burundi Leadership Training Program and the Initiative for a Cohesive Leadership in the DR Congo, where local leaders were permanently mobilized to drive the process and determine the content from beginning to end: in conflict assessment, convening, orientation, planning and location of activities, as well as in delivery, readjustment of content, communicating of results, monitoring and follow-up.
Lempereur is Alan B. Slifka Professor and director of the graduate programs in coexistence and conflict program at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University and a member of the executive committee of the program on negotiation at Harvard Law School. As a mediator in conflicts and negotiation expert, he advises international organizations, such as the European Commission and Parliament, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), North Atlantic Treaty Organization, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and World Health Organization. Through the Wilson International Center for Scholars, he facilitated reconciliation and leadership programs in Africa, notably, in Burundi (2003-07) and in the D.R. Congo (2006-09). He belongs to the UN mediators’ network, and also moderated local and global meetings for the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (2009-11) for the OECD. As a negotiation pioneer in Europe and professor of negotiation and mediation at Essec in Paris and Singapore (1995-2011), he established and developed, an academic institute called Irene—peace in Greek—which he led as its first director (1995-2008).
Lempereur is Alan B. Slifka Professor and director of the graduate programs in coexistence and conflict program at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University and a member of the executive committee of the program on negotiation at Harvard Law School. As a mediator in conflicts and negotiation expert, he advises international organizations, such as the European Commission and Parliament, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), North Atlantic Treaty Organization, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and World Health Organization. Through the Wilson International Center for Scholars, he facilitated reconciliation and leadership programs in Africa, notably, in Burundi (2003-07) and in the D.R. Congo (2006-09). He belongs to the UN mediators’ network, and also moderated local and global meetings for the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (2009-11) for the OECD. As a negotiation pioneer in Europe and professor of negotiation and mediation at Essec in Paris and Singapore (1995-2011), he established and developed, an academic institute called Irene—peace in Greek—which he led as its first director (1995-2008).
The series is organized by the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program and co-sponsored by the Public Education for Peacebuilding Support Initiative of the United States Institute of Peace.
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Monday, April 1, 2013
