The Center for Strategic and International Studies Program on Crisis, Conflict, and Cooperation invites Uplift Community Network President and CEO to a Statesmen’s Forum

with

His Excellency Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations

On

Building and Sustaining Peace:
The UN Role in Post-Conflict Situations

Welcoming Remarks and Moderated by

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Counselor and Trustee
CSIS

Ban Ki-moon is the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations. His priorities have been to mobilizworld leaders around a set of new global challenges, from climate change and economic upheaval to pandemics and increasing pressures involving food, energy, and water. He has sought to be a bridge builder, to give voice to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and to strengthen the organization itself. Mr. Ban took office on January 1, 2007. On June 21, 2011, he was unanimously reelected by the General Assembly and will continue to serve until December 31, 2016.