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Cedric de Coning

Cedric de Coning is an Advisor with 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 (1999-2000 and 2001-2002) and 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 and civil-military and peacebuilding coordination for ACCORD, and the Comprehensive Approach with 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 D.Phil candidate at the University of Stellenbosch. His recent publications include: Conflict Management for Peacekeepers and Peacebuilders, (ACCORD 2008) with Ian Henderson, 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.

Mika-Markus Leinonen

Mika-Markus Leinonen is currently the Director, Civcom Chair, in the European External Action Service.  Mika-Markus first entered the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990, and after postings to the Finnish Embassies in Chile and Belgium, and as the Finnish Representation to NATO amongst others, he came to Brussels in 2000 where he served as the Principal Administrator for the Crisis Management Units (DGE VII, VIII and IX) in the General Secretariat of the Council.  He has extensive experience in Civilian Crisis Management, having served as the Finnish representative to CIVCOM, the Director of the Unit for Civilian Crisis Management in the Finnish MFA, and as the Director of DGE IX – Civilian Crisis Management in the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU.