EU enlargement and peacemaking: Experiences and challenges

Session Description: The panel will identify and consider best practices and lessons learned from EU enlargement and conflict prevention and resolution, notably how priorities intersect and reinforce or undermine one another. The discussants will reflect on the experience of maintaining stability in their respective contexts through dialogue, including the roles of external partners, and partnerships. 

Moderator: Moderator: Natalia Djandjgava, Project Manager, CMI– Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation 

Panellists:

  • Ms Dorota Dlouchy - Suliga · Head of Division at European External Action Service, Brussels

  • Dr Oleg Serebrian, Deputy Prime-Minister for Reintegration of Republic of Moldova

  • Ms Olena Zakharova, Head of the International Cooperation and Communication Division of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine

  • Dr Eka Akobia, Dean of the Caucasus School of Governance at Caucasus University, Georgia