ESI in Tel Aviv: Conference on peace operations and state building

Tel Aviv University. Photo: flickr/ANATOLI AXELROD

ESI Deputy Chairman Kristof Bender participated at an international conference on peace operations and state building organised by Tel Aviv University and Science-Po from 31 October to 2 November in Tel Aviv. The conference explored different experiences from the Balkans, Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Kristof gave a presentation on the role of foreign actors in the successful containment of Macedonia's 2001 conflict and the subsequent successful implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement for Peace.