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Anne Flaspöler, former postdoctoral researcher at EDDA and GEST affiliated researcher, participated in the Future Force Conference 2017 in The Hague, Netherlands in February 2017, together with fellow researchers from UNU-MERIT (United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology). On the second day of the conference Anne contributed the breakout panel session "Operation Peace: Challenges to Peacekeeping in the 21st Century" together with relevant representatives from the academia, diplomacy and the military entities, including the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA) discussing the challenges of hybrid missions, lessons learned from stabilisation mandates, the importance of the UN Peacebuilding Commission to the peacekeeping architecture and the need to keep up with technological innovation among others.
For further information go to the Future Force Conference website.