Renata Dwan
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Renata Dwan (born 1969) is an Irish Peace and conflict studies academic researcher known for her work with the United nations. From 2018 to 2021 she led the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.[1]
Background and academic education
Renata Dwan studied International Relations in the University of Oxford obtaining a Master of Philosophy and Ph.D..[2] She then worked as a Hedley Bull Junior Research Fellow in international relations.[3] She became a Fulbright Scholar at Princeton University in New Jersey and was a visiting scholar at the former Institute for Security Studies of the Western European Union in Paris.[4] She is the author of several security policy publications.[5]
Professional career
In 1997, Dwan became Deputy Head of the European Security Program at the EastWest Institute in Budapest.[3] From 1999 to 2005 she was director of the renowned Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).[6] She served as EU Special Adviser on Crisis Operations in 2002-2003 and became a member of the European Union's High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy's Javier Solana Task in 2004.[7][8]
Dwan has worked at the United Nations since 2005.[2] She was senior peacekeeping operations officer at the UN Secretariat,[2] and was team leader of the operations teams for Afghanistan, DRC, Haiti and Mali at the Department of Peacekeeping Missions, and was chief of staff at the UN Monitoring Mission in Syria.[5]
In 2015–2016 she led UN-Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's Peacekeeping Reform Panel and was also a member of the United Nations Peace and Security Architecture Review Team under Secretary-General António Guterres.[9] She developed initiatives to reform the security sector, to protect the civilian population and to use civilian capacities in crisis management.[10] Most recently she was Chief of Policy and Best Practices in the United Nations Department of Peace Operations|United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Field Support (DPKO/DFS).[11][2] In January 2018, she became director of the Institute, succeeding the Finn Jarmo SarevaUnited Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva.[5] In 2021 she was replaced in this office by the German international law expert Robin Geiß.[12]
Political engagement
Dwan is a consultant and spokesperson for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), which is increasingly focusing on feminist aspects of peace and security politics.[13]
Bibliography
- Renata Dwan (Hrsg.): Executive policing: enforcing the law in peace operations. SIPRI, Oxford Univ. Press, 2002, ISBN 0-19-926267-5
References
- ↑ "Dr. Renata Dwan". Ireland.ie.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Ms. Renata Dwan of Ireland - Director of United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research | United Nations Secretary-General". www.un.org.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Speaker Renata Dwan – Soroptimist International Convention Dublin 2023".
- ↑ "Life After DPIR - Renata Dwan, UN Institute for Disarmament Research". www.politics.ox.ac.uk. July 9, 2018.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/sga1783.doc.htm un.org
- ↑ "Renata Dwan | SIPRI". www.sipri.org.
- ↑ http://unidir.org/about/staff/renata-dwan unidir.org
- ↑ https://luchoffmanninstitute.org/about/our-governance/our-advisory-council/renata-dwan/ luchoffmanninstitute.org
- ↑ "#SpaceWatchGL Interviews: Renata Dwan of United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research - SpaceWatch.Global".
- ↑ https://luchoffmanninstitute.org/about/our-governance/our-advisory-council/renata-dwan
- ↑ http://unidir.org/about/staff/renata-dwan
- ↑ "Our People | UNIDIR". unidir.org.
- ↑ Science, London School of Economics and Political. "Women and Weapons". London School of Economics and Political Science.
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