Asif R. Khan آصف خان Profile picture
UN Dept. of Political & Peacebuilding Affairs. Head of Mediation Support and Gender, Peace & Security.
Oct 13, 2022 16 tweets 6 min read
Pérez de Cuéllar and Rafeeuddin Ahmed: two UN diplomats amongst many international players, who worked on the Cambodia peace process for a decade in the distant 1980s. They toiled on different diplomatic formulas, including one that culminated in success in Paris in 1991. A 🧵 In writing my paper: "When Great Powers Behave: Mediation Lessons from the Cambodia Peace Process" - thanks @hdcentre + @nupinytt - I wanted to examine a complex, multi-actor and -phased peace process, grounded in some form of the practice of applied history.