“Building an Even More Secure Central African Republic” and “The plague of Foreign Intervention” by Simon P. Alain Handy

Simon Handy, Former Special Advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General in CAR
Simon P Alain Handy, Former Special Advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General in CAR

Simon P. Alain Handy spoke recently at a SALO workshop on the 2nd of September 2015 entitled: “Consensus Building Dialogue: Central African Republic, Sudan/South Sudan”. He is a policy analyst at the United Nations and a specialist on issues of peace, post-conflict reconstruction, mediation and international security. He is a former Young Associate Expert at La Francophonie, a former Visiting Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS, Paris in 2009) and a Senior Executive Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2011). In 1998, following an executive program at the Pearson Peacekeeping Center in Cornwallis Nova Scotia, he wrote his Post-Graduate thesis at the Paris Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies (IRIS) entitled “Peacekeeping operations: A foreign policy strategy for Canada”.