Professor Richard Caplan has been awarded funding from NATO in support of a conference he is co-chairing on Exit Strategies and Peace Consolidation in State-Building Operations to be held on 13-15 March at Wilton Park. Details of the conference can be found at:
The conference brings representatives of national governments and multilateral organisations together with a research group of 16 scholars and practitioners, led by Richard Caplan, who for the past two years have been exploring the empirical experiences of, and scholarly and policy questions associated with, exit in relation to international operations where state-building has been a major objective historically and contemporarily. The purpose of the project is to enhance scholarly and practitioner understanding of the principal challenges associated with the termination of international state-building operations and to strengthen the capacity of governmental and inter-governmental agencies to meet those challenges and plan for the withdrawal from state-building operations in a manner that is consistent with the requirements for the maintenance of a stable peace. Further details of the project, including the composition of the research group, can be found at: http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/Projects/consolidation_peace.asp.
Richard Caplan is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for International Studies.
