Renata Dwan

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Renata Dwan (* 1969 in Ireland ) is an Irish peace and conflict researcher and director of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva.

Origin and academic training

Renata Dwan studied International Relations at the University of Oxford , graduating with a Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. from. She then worked there as a Hedley Bull Junior Research Fellow for international relations. She received a Fulbright scholarship to Princeton University in New Jersey and was a visiting scholar at the former Paris Institute for Security Studies of the Western European Union . She is the author of numerous security policy publications.

Professional career

In 1997 Renata Dwan became Deputy Head of the European Security Program at the EastWest Institute in Budapest . From 1999 to 2005 she was director of the renowned Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). From 2002 to 2003 she was the EU's special advisor for crisis operations and in 2004 she became a member of the task force of the High Representative for the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana .

Dwan has been with the United Nations since 2005. She was in charge of peace missions in the UN Secretariat , was the team leader of operations teams for Afghanistan , the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Haiti and Mali in the peacekeeping operations department, and was chief of staff of the UN monitoring mission in Syria .

From 2015–2016, she headed the committee set up by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon for the Reform of Peace Missions and was also a member of the United Nations' Peace and Security Architecture Review team under Secretary General António Guterres . She developed initiatives to reform the security sector, protect the civilian population and use civilian capacities in crisis management. Most recently she was Head of Practical Policy and Operations Support in the Peacekeeping Operations Department . In January 2018 she became director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva as the successor to the Finn Jarmo Sareva .

Sociopolitical engagement

Renata Dwan works as a consultant and spokesperson for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), which increasingly focuses on feminist aspects in peace and security policy.

Publications

  • Renata Dwan (Ed.): Executive policing: enforcing the law in peace operations . SIPRI, Oxford Univ. Press, 2002, ISBN 0-19-926267-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ un.org accessed on May 18, 2019
  2. ↑ unidir.org accessed on May 18, 2019
  3. ↑ luchoffmanninstitute.org accessed on May 18, 2019
  4. ↑ un.org accessed on May 19, 2019
  5. ↑ luchoffmanninstitute.org accessed on May 19, 2019
  6. ↑ unidir.org accessed on May 19, 2019
  7. ↑ un.org accessed on May 19, 2019
  8. ↑ lse.ac.uk accessed on May 19, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Dwan, Renata
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish peace and conflict researcher and UN official
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Ireland