Markus E Bouillon
Markus E. Bouillon is Chief of Office @UNDPPA, the UN's Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. He previously served in three United Nations field missions in Mogadishu/Nairobi (UNSOM), Beirut (UNSCOL) and Jerusalem (UNSCO), as well as in a variety of assignments at UN Headquarters, including in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, the Peacebuilding Support Office, the Department of Political Affairs, and in support of senior UN envoys on Middle East issues.
As a political affairs officer, special assistant and chief of staff, he advised senior UN officials and generated political advice and strategy on key challenges in the respective areas. In Somalia, he helped conceptualize and implement the consultative process to determine an electoral model for 2016, as well as the 2016 electoral process. In the Middle East, he worked on the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace-making efforts in the context of the Arab Peace Initiative, repeated wars in Gaza, Israel's 2005 disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank, and other Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Syrian peacemaking efforts. He also advised on domestic political issues and state-building in Lebanon; the implementation of Security Council resolution 1701 following the 2006 war in Lebanon; and the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559, Syria's 2005 withdrawal from Lebanon and the turmoil around the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
Across the Middle East, he has lived and worked in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and the UAE and from those vantage points studied and written about strategic and state-building challenges in the region, including in Iraq and with respect to Iran. He is the author of The Peace Business: Money and Power in the Palestine-Israel Conflict (London, IB Tauris, 2004) and co-editor of Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2007).
Supervisors: Prof. Avi Shlaim
As a political affairs officer, special assistant and chief of staff, he advised senior UN officials and generated political advice and strategy on key challenges in the respective areas. In Somalia, he helped conceptualize and implement the consultative process to determine an electoral model for 2016, as well as the 2016 electoral process. In the Middle East, he worked on the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace-making efforts in the context of the Arab Peace Initiative, repeated wars in Gaza, Israel's 2005 disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank, and other Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Syrian peacemaking efforts. He also advised on domestic political issues and state-building in Lebanon; the implementation of Security Council resolution 1701 following the 2006 war in Lebanon; and the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559, Syria's 2005 withdrawal from Lebanon and the turmoil around the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
Across the Middle East, he has lived and worked in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and the UAE and from those vantage points studied and written about strategic and state-building challenges in the region, including in Iraq and with respect to Iran. He is the author of The Peace Business: Money and Power in the Palestine-Israel Conflict (London, IB Tauris, 2004) and co-editor of Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2007).
Supervisors: Prof. Avi Shlaim
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