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    RUSI Whitehall Paper Launch Event - Preparing for Peace: Britain’s Contribution and Capabilities

    13:00, 24 Sep 2010
    RUSI, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2ET
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    About the event:

    Preparing for Peace ImageBased on interviews with civil servants from across the UK government, senior military officers, politicians, academics and NGO experts, RUSI’s latest Whitehall Paper, Preparing for Peace: Britain’s Contribution and Capabilities, examines the impact of reforms and initiatives over the past thirteen years and the challenges that remain. Identifying a mismatch between ambitions and resources, the authors, Richard Teuten and Daniel Korski, will discuss how the government can best organise itself to mitigate conflict in fragile states, with specific recommendations to ensure a robust framework for the future. The Rt Hon James Arbuthnot MP, Chairman of the House of Commons Defence Committee, will chair the event and discuss key themes and issues with the authors.

    Following the discussion, copies of Preparing for Peace: Britain’s Contribution and Capabilities, will be on sale at a special price of £15.

    Richard Teuten is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute analysing Britain’s role in conflict prevention and promoting stability in countries affected by violent conflict. Before joining RUSI, he was head of the UK Government’s Stabilisation Unit (formerly the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Unit) from April 2006 to January 2010. Richard worked for over twenty years in the Department for International Development and Foreign and Commonwealth Office on a range of policy issues and country programmes (Pakistan, Mozambique, Malawi, Latin America and the Caribbean, China, Vietnam, Ghana and the UK Overseas Territories). He was an economist in the Ministry of Local Government in Botswana from 1977-1980.

    Daniel Korski is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). He is currently seconded from the ECFR, working in the Department for International Development, inter alia, on the Strategic Defence and Security Review. Before joining ECFR, Daniel also worked for the British government. His last posting was on loan to the US State Department as a Senior Adviser to the Co-ordinator for Stabilization and Reconstruction. In Spring 2007, he had led the provincial reconstruction team in Basra. Prior to his US and Iraq postings, he was the deputy head of the UK’s Post-Conflict Reconstruction Unit (now Stabilisation Unit) and worked in Kabul, Afghanistan, as a policy adviser to the minister for counter-narcotics. Daniel also worked as a policy adviser to the UK House of Commons Defence Select Committee and as head of political-military affairs for Lord Ashdown, the then-High Representative of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

    An optional £10 sandwich lunch shall be available from 1215.

    Priority will be given to RUSI members and places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

    To attend this event, please register online using the "Book your place" button above. If you have any queries please contact Sabrina Downey, Events Director, at sabrinad@rusi.org or call +44 (0)20 7747 2622.

    Event manager: Sabrina Downey

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