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QUNO contributes to PBC annual session

24th June 2016

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QUNO New York Director Andrew Tomlinson was one of a small number of civil society representatives who took part in the third annual session of the UN's Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). The focus of this year's annual session was Transitions as a challenge to consolidating peace and security: The role of the PBC in diplomacy and political accompaniment. QUNO made interventions in both of the interactive working sessions, which have been compiled in a document entitled Transitions, Inclusion and Opportunities in the new UN Peacebuilding Landscape.

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