2nd UPEACE Lecture by Prof. Jan Pronk: "Conflict Prevention and Fragile States"

Prof. Jan Pronk, Chair in the Theory and Practice of International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies, will deliver a speech on "Conflict Prevention and Fragile States".

About Jan Pronk (1940)

Professor Pronk studied economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and became research assistant of Professor Jan Tinbergen at the same university.

In the seventies he became Member of Parliament for the Social-Democratic Party (Partij van de Arbeid) and worked as Minister for Development Cooperation (1973-1977 and 1989-1998) and later as Minister of Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (1998-2002). In 2002, he received an Honourable Degree at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague and was appointed Chair in the Theory and Practice of International Development.

From 2004 until the end of 2006 he worked in Khartoum, Sudan as the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in this country, where he led the UN peacekeeping operation (UNMIS).

In 2007 he returned to the Netherlands and resumed his position at the ISS. Since his retirement in 2012 he is a Professor Emeritus at the Institute and gives lectures at various universities. As of 2009 he is a visiting Professor at the UN Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica.

Program

Doors open:        16.30 hrs

Lecture:               17.00-17.40 hrs

Q & A:                  17.40-18.20 hrs

Drinks:                 18.20-19.00 hrs

Register before: May 20, 2014