Ambassador Alvaro de Soto will focus on the U.N. as peacemaker Sept. 22
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Ambassador Alvaro de Soto
On Sept. 22, the Masterʼs Program in Coexistence and Conflict will present Ambassador Alvaro de Soto discussing “The U.N. as Peacemaker—Post Cold-War Lessons.” Ambassador de Soto, a Peruvian diplomat, held senior positions at the United Nations for 25 years under Secretaries-General Perez de Cuellar, Boutros-Ghali and Annan.
During his U.N. career, de Soto led the 1990-1991 negotiations that produced far-reaching reforms to end the 10-year war in El Salvador. He also conducted the 1999-2004 process that led to the April 2004 referendums on a comprehensive settlement plan for the Cyprus problem, and he served as Special Envoy for Myanmar (1995-1999) and Special Representative for the Western Sahara (2003-2005). He left the U.N. in 2007 after two years as the United Nation's chief Middle East envoy. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute, an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and a member of the Global Leadership Foundation.
Ambassador de Soto will be hosted by Ted Johnson's Dialogue & Mediation class. The event, which is open to the Brandeis community, begins at 1:30 p.m. in the Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex Atrium.