Cedric de Coning

Cedric de Coning is a Research Fellow with the African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He was a South African diplomat in Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa (1988–1997). He served with the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor, as a Civil Affairs and Political Affairs Officer (1999–2000 and 2001–2002), and he worked with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in the Training and Evaluation Service (2002). Cedric is working on the civilian dimension of the African Standby Force (ACCORD), civil-military and peacebuilding coordination (ACCORD), mediation support capacity building for the African Union (ACCORD) and the comprehensive approach and integrated missions (NUPI). His research focus is on the coherence and coordination of complex peacebuilding systems. Cedric holds a M.A. (Cum Laude) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is a DPhil candidate at the University of Stellenbosch. His recent publications include: Civil-Military Coordination in United Nations and African Peace Operations, ACCORD (2007) and the Unintended Consequences of Peacekeeping, UNU Press (2007), which he co-edited with Prof Chiyuki Aoi and Prof Ramesh Thakur.