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JaÏr van der Lijn is now a member of Peace and Collaborative Development Network

Dec 28, 2011

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Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs): Dr Jaïr van der Lijn joined SIPRI in early 2013. His research interests include conflict resolution, peace operations, peace agreements and the role of the United Nations. He has published widely and conducted extensive field research in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, El Salvador, Mozambique, Rwanda and Sudan. He has also produced a number of pre-deployment scenarios on Sudan, Syria and Afghanistan, and looked into the future of peace operations. Mr. van der Lijn is also Senior Research Associate at the 'Clingendael' Institute and an Associate Fellow at the Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Please indicate if you're joining PCDN as an individual or organization (please mark the appropriate category): individual (professional)

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise: Africa, Afghanistan, the Balkans

What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?: Sweden

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?: Senior Research Fellow, Peace operation & future security foresight

How many years professional experience do you have ?: 11-15

What is your personal or organizational website?: http://www.clingendael.nl/cscp/staff/?id=397

Which Languages do you speak Proficiently? (note we can not list all languages, only some major world languages or ones related to conflict regions): German

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?: Conflict Resolution, DDR, Peacebuilding, Peacekeeping

Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?: Curriculum Development, Evaluation, Monitoring, Research, Qualitative Skills

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?: Integrated missions, future security foresight, ISAF, the peacekeeping operations in Sudan

If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications: 3D ‘the next generation’: Lessons learned from Uruzgan for future operations, Cordaid & Clingendael Institute, November 2011, 88pp.

Crystal Balling Future Threats 2020-2030: Security Foresights of ‘Actors’ and Drivers in Perspective [EN] Article in Defense & Security Analysis, 27(2), 2011, pp. 149-167.

Scenarios for Sudan in 2012: Crash or Happy Take-off [EN] Article in Foresight: The journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policy, 12(4), 2010, pp. 3-22.

Learning lessons in African peace operations [EN] Editorial in Journal of International Peacekeeping, 14(1-2), 2010, pp. 1-5.

Success and failure of UN peacekeeping operations: UNMIS in Sudan [EN] Article in Journal of International Peacekeeping, 14(1-2), 2010, pp. 27-59.

Mission impossible: UNAMID and the chances of it making a successful contribution to durable peace [EN] Article in P. Hoebink (ed.), Netherlands Yearbook on International Cooperation, 2008, Assen: Van Gorcum, pp. 165-179.

If Only There Were a Blueprint! Factors for Success and Failure of UN Peace-Building Operations [EN] Article in Journal of International Peacekeeping, 13(1-2), February 2009, pp. 45–71.

Walking the tightrope: Do UN peacekeeping operations actually contribute to durable peace? [EN] Book, Amsterdam, Purdue University Press, Dutch University Press and Rozenberg Publishers, 2006.

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