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Launch of GPP White Paper in New York March 2015

2nd June 2015

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QUNO’s Diane Hendrick was one of the presenters, together with Achim Wennman, of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform’s (GPP) White Paper on Peacebuilding at the Swiss Mission in New York in March 2015. (The Swiss government contributed to the financing of the paper). The views of a wide range of peacebuilding professional’s at all levels provides input into the ongoing reviews of the UN peacebuilding architecture and peace operations. Senior UN peacebuilding officials were present at the launch of the White Paper Both, inlcuding Gert Rosenthal, who heads the Expert Advisory Group of the 10 year peacebuilding architecture review and Funmi Olonisakin, an adviser in the Group. 

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