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March 2019
Fireside Chat with Simona-Mirela Miculescu, Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office in Belgrade
Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office in Belgrade Topic: Public Communications in the Mediation Context Interviewer: Milos Strugar Simona-Mirela Miculescu has been the Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office in Belgrade since July 2015. Prior to this, she was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations between 2008 and 2015. During her 24-year diplomatic career, she has served as Spokesperson for the Romanian Ministry of…
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Fireside Chat with Renata Avila
Ms. Renata Avila, an international human rights lawyer and the Director of the International Smart Citizen Foundation, was interviewed by Mr. Milos Strugar, UN Senior Mediation Advisor and Executive Director of Conflux Center on 4. July 2018. Ms. Avila addressed the issues of enhancing citizen engagement, improving inclusion, dialogue and grassroots action, with a special focus on protecting human rights in the digital world. Renata Avila, Guatemalan, is an international human rights lawyer and digital rights advocate. She is currently the…
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Fireside chat with Kishan S. Rana
Professor Emeritus, former Ambassador of India, and a joint secretary to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Interviewer: Milos Strugar Ambassador Kishan S. Rana, Professor Emeritus, and a Senior Fellow at DiploFoundation. He was awarded a BA (Hon) and MA in economics, St Stephens College Delhi. He was in the Indian Foreign Service (1960-95); and worked in China (1963-65, 1970-72). He was Ambassador and High Commissioner for Algeria, Czechoslovakia, Kenya, Mauritius, and Germany; and consul general in San Francisco. He served as a…
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Fireside Chat with Karla Robin Hershey
UN Resident Coordinator & UNDP Resident Representative in the Republic of Serbia Topic: "Dialogue for the the Future" Interviewer: Mr. Julian Harston, UN Assistant Secretary-General (ret.) Ms. Hershey presented "Dialogue for the Future" at Conflux Center on the 26th of February, 2018, where she addressed how sensitive political issues were addressed through the work of development UN partners at the local community level, focusing on: Promoting inter-cultural dialogue through culture, sports, education, health Working in multi-cultural geographical areas Working with…
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