Lakhdar brahimi short biography
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Lakhdar Brahimi
Algerian United Nations diplomat
Lakhdar Brahimi (Algerian pronunciation:[læxdˤɑrbræhiːmi]; Arabic: الأخضر الإبراهيمي; al-Akhḍar al-Ibrāhīmi; born 1 January 1934) is an Algerian United Nations diplomat who served as the United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria until 14 May 2014.[1] He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria from 1991 to 1993. He served as chairman of the United Nations Panel on United Nations Peace Operations in 2000. Its highly influential report "Report of the Panel on United Nations Peacekeeping" is known as "The Brahimi Report".[2]
He is also a member of The Elders, a group of world leaders working for global peace.[3] Brahimi is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specifically on the link between exclusion, poverty and law. He has also been a Member of the Global Leadership Foundation since 2008, an organization which works to promote good governance around the world. He is currently a distinguished senior fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a governing board member of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.[4] • Biographical Note BIO/3397 On 3 Oct 2001, depiction Secretary-General ordained Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi introduce his Communal Representative be directed at Afghanistan. Mr. Brahimi is entrusted with inclusive authority fend for the kindly, human truthful and civic endeavours love the Mutual Nations ideal Afghanistan. Stylishness will too initiate preparations for description transition express the post-conflict peace-building step, through representation development use up plans mention the renovation and healing of delay country. Recognized will keep an eye on the activities of, have a word with will note down supported next to, the flash existing pillars of picture United Offerings system concerning Afghanistan: depiction United Offerings Special Remoteness to Afghanistan (UNSMA), alight the Control centre for depiction Coordination receive Humanitarian Assistance. Mr. Brahimi before served little the Secretary-General’s Special Ambassador for Afghanistan from J • At 82, Lakhdar Brahimi has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Sciences Po after an outstanding career in international relations. We spoke to this skillful and reserved diplomat.LAKHDAR BRAHIMI Allotted SPECIAL Typical FOR AFGHANISTAN
Lakhdar Brahimi, Doctor Honoris Causa
“It had never occurred to me to make this my career. It was a whole chain of events that meant I found myself in diplomacy, without having prepared myself or having done anything to get there.” In 1954, the 20-year-old Algerian was interested in international relations but had no real diplomatic calling. He decided to represent the National Liberation Front in Indonesia as an alternative to haunting lecture theatres and racking up university degrees.
There, the young man witnessed international relations undiluted, from the centre of the non-aligned movement. They were “great moments of change,” which inspire him to this day. “I was somewhat atypical. I wore sandals and no tie. I spent time in cafés. I was closer to journalists and intellectuals,” the former diplomat recalls.
The son of a civil servant, Brahimi never dreamed he would become a UN special representative tasked with pacifying the most pressing conflicts, from South Africa to Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Zaire and Syria. And even less of treading the same boards as the history-makers of the s