Strategies for Lasting Peace Accords

8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m., June 12, 2018

Location: 1400 16th St NW, Washington, DC

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Twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement, this forum will look at the lessons that can be shared from the Northern Ireland peace process in the context of other peace processes, looking specifically at the Colombian accord. What lessons can be shared and applied? And what role has international support played in these peace processes?

This event is presented by the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs and the US Embassy of Ireland.

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Speakers

Scott Appleby

Marilyn Keough Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs

Daniel Mulhall

Ambassador of Ireland to the United States

Eamon Gilmore

Former Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister, Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland; EU Special Envoy to the Colombian Peace Process

Keynote Speaker

Amanda Sloat

Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Center, US and Europe, The Brookings Institution

Moderator

H.E. Camilo Reyes

Ambassador of Colombia to the United States

Ambassador Barbara Stephenson

President, American Foreign Service Association; former US Consul General in Belfast

Norman Houston

Director, Northern Ireland Bureau, Washington, DC

David Cortright

Director, Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs