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Jean-Marie Guéhenno

President & CEO
Brussels, Belgium & New York, USA

Jean-Marie Guéhenno served as the United Nations Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations between 2000 and 2008. He is the author of The Fog of Peace: A Memoir of Peacekeeping in the 21st Century.

A former French diplomat, he served as Director of Policy Planning at France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Chairman of the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence. In 2012, he chaired President François Hollande’s review of France’s defense and national security posture.

In 2012, he was appointed deputy joint special envoy for Syria by the United Nations and the Arab League. Prior to joining Crisis Group, he was director of Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict Resolution.

In The News

2 Jan 2017
If we see deepening European crisis, one of the world’s major balancing voices will be lost. CNN

Jean-Marie Guéhenno

President & CEO
15 Dec 2016
We’re heading for a big, slow-motion crisis. Why is [Joseph Kabila] refusing to go? For the sake of power? To protect the family business? Probably a bit of both. Bloomberg

Jean-Marie Guéhenno

President & CEO
3 Oct 2016
A chance is being missed, because there's no military solution to the Syrian conflict. No side can really crush the other side, so there's no other way than a political way RT

Jean-Marie Guéhenno

President & CEO
23 Sep 2016
What is counter-productive is to give false hopes, to give the impression to Syrians that peace is around the corner. BBC Newshour

Jean-Marie Guéhenno

President & CEO

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Op-Ed / Global

10 Conflicts to Watch in 2017

From Turkey to Mexico, the world’s most volatile flashpoints will get a lot more unpredictable this year.

Originally published in Foreign Policy

Op-Ed / Global

The Transformation of War and Peace

Originally published in Carnegie