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Challenges Meeting in New York

29 January 2009

The Challenges Partnership met in New York in order to report back on recent work, take stock on developments and discuss issues for the future.

The specific purposes of the meeting were twofold: first, to discuss some of the key issues of the first International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations hosted as part of the EU Presidency Agenda by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the Ministry of Defence of France in Paris 20-22 October 2008. The second part of the meeting focused on looking to the future and the forthcoming substantive undertakings of the Challenges Partnership. In particular, but not exclusively, issues of relevance for modern peace operations, which may be addressed at the second International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations to be hosted by the National Defence University in Islamabad in July 2009. The session also raised the outcome of a Challenges Workshop on Multidimensional Concepts and Doctrine Development held at the United States Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, 26-27 January 2009. The Challenges Meeting in New York was hosted by the Challenges Forum and co-sponsored by the Pakistani, French and Swedish Permanent Missions to the United Nations.

Final Programme and Presentations of the Meeting

Challenges Meeting at UN Millennium Plaza Hotel, New York 29 January 2009