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Making Peace in Donbas? The Role of a Peacekeeping Mission

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Welcoming remarks:

Ambassador John Herbst
Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Atlantic Council
 
Keynote address:

Ambassador Kurt Volker
United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations
US Department of State

Panel discussion:

Dr. Sarah Mendelson
Former US Ambassador 
The United Nations ​ Economic and Social Council

Dr. Evelyn Farkas
Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Future Europe Initiative, and Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Atlantic Council
 
Ambassador Alexander Vershbow
Distinguished Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Atlantic Council
 
Mr. Oleksiy Melnyk
Co-director, Foreign Relations and International Security Programs
Razumkov Centre
 
Moderated by:

Ambassador John Herbst
Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Atlantic Council

 
For years, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has proposed a peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine as an important instrument to achieving a peace settlement. This fall, Russian President Vladimir Putin also suggested a limited peacekeeping mission as one element towards a settlement. Are international peacekeepers or peace enforcers instrumental or even necessary for ending the war in Donbas?

The Atlantic Council and the Razumkov Centre are assembling a panel of experts to discuss Russia's war in Donbas and the prospect of a peacekeeping operation.

We hope you can join us for this timely discussion.