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Join us for the next installment of the Corry Colloquium Speaker Series, featuring 鈥淗istorical Narratives as an Obstacle to Peace: How Canadian Universities Can Help UN Peace Efforts,鈥� with Colin Stewart. The event will take place on Friday, November 28, from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.

Until August of this year, Colin Stewart served as the UN Secretary-General鈥檚 Special Representative in Cyprus, heading the peacekeeping force there (UNFICYP) and leading the UN鈥檚 mediation efforts on the ground.  Prior to that, he was the Special Representative in Western Sahara, heading MINURSO from 2017 to 2021.

Over the course of almost 20 combined years with the UN, he served in 5 peacekeeping missions and 3 political missions, working in Asia, Africa and Europe.  As Deputy Head of the UN Office to the African Union in Addis Ababa from 2011 to 2016, he played a lead role in building the UN-AU partnership in peacekeeping.  His work with the UN in putting on the successful referendum in East Timor in 1999 was recognized that year by Maclean鈥檚 Magazine.

In addition to his UN work, he has represented former President Carter and the Carter Center in Palestine and DR Congo, managing election observation missions for pivotal elections in each place. 

He was a Canadian diplomat from 1990 to 1997, serving in Ottawa (including as Legislative Assistant to then Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy) and Jakarta, with shorter assignments in Helsinki and Moscow.