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Displacement, Refuge, Migration – The Context of United Nations Peace Operations

KHRCA BuildingKHRCA 2016-17 Colloquia – Fleeing Genocide: Displacement, Exile and the refugee. Event 4: Displacement, Refuge, Migration – The Context of United Nations Peace Operations.

Speakers: Lieutenant General Stefan Feller, Police Adviser, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations and Dr. Jean Murley, Associate Professor of English, Queensborough Community College.

Lieutenant Feller discusses crises which cause internal and external displacement, and the challenges of reverting displacement and migration. Lieutenant General Stefan Feller, currently the Police Adviser to the United Nations who serves as a Director in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, will discuss the current refugee crisis and UN policies and programs designed to address it. His talk will draw on his 40-year career as a police officer and 15 years in international peace operations. Mr. Feller has more than 36 years of professional experience in national and international policing, in particular strategic planning, operations and policy development.  He served in the State Police of North-Rhine Westphalia for more than 21 years, where he rose to the rank of Director of Operations.  Since 2000, Mr. Feller has pursued an international career in peacekeeping.  Among other posts, he was the Police Commissioner in the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, the Head of the Police Unit in the Council of the European Union, and from 2008 to 2012, the Head of the European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.











When: Wed., Dec. 7, 2016 at 12:20 pm - 1:50 pm
Where: Queensborough Community College
222-05 56th Ave.
718-281-5044
Price: Free
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KHRCA BuildingKHRCA 2016-17 Colloquia – Fleeing Genocide: Displacement, Exile and the refugee. Event 4: Displacement, Refuge, Migration – The Context of United Nations Peace Operations.

Speakers: Lieutenant General Stefan Feller, Police Adviser, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations and Dr. Jean Murley, Associate Professor of English, Queensborough Community College.

Lieutenant Feller discusses crises which cause internal and external displacement, and the challenges of reverting displacement and migration. Lieutenant General Stefan Feller, currently the Police Adviser to the United Nations who serves as a Director in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, will discuss the current refugee crisis and UN policies and programs designed to address it. His talk will draw on his 40-year career as a police officer and 15 years in international peace operations. Mr. Feller has more than 36 years of professional experience in national and international policing, in particular strategic planning, operations and policy development.  He served in the State Police of North-Rhine Westphalia for more than 21 years, where he rose to the rank of Director of Operations.  Since 2000, Mr. Feller has pursued an international career in peacekeeping.  Among other posts, he was the Police Commissioner in the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, the Head of the Police Unit in the Council of the European Union, and from 2008 to 2012, the Head of the European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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