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词条 Michael Keating (United Kingdom)
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  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

  3. Other activities

  4. Personal life

  5. Works

  6. References

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}}Michael Keating (born 1959 in Kampala, Uganda)[1] is the Executive Director of the European Institute of Peace[2]. He was the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) from January 2016 until September 2018.[3][4][5]

Early life and education

Keating was born in 1959 in Uganda and raised in Africa. He has a Master of Arts in history from the University of Cambridge.

Career

Keating's private sector experience includes five years in financial publishing in the City of London; working in television as Associate Producer on documentaries broadcast by the BBC and Channel Four; and running Media Natura, a management and communication consultancy whose clients included companies and public sector bodies engaged in environmental, human rights and development issues.

Keating began his international career as Special Assistant to fr:Sadruddin Aga Khan in Geneva 1985 to 1988, working on diverse issues including nuclear non proliferation, refugees and displacement, UN reform, environmental protection and religious tolerance. From 1999 until 2001 he was Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Mark Malloch Brown, in New York before moving to the UN's political mission, UNSCO, in Jerusalem/Gaza. He was the UN Resident Coordinator in Malawi from 2004 until 2008. Within the UN System, he also had assignments in Geneva, New York City, Peshawar, Islamabad and Kabul.

From 2008 to 2010, Keating served as the Executive Director of the Africa Progress Panel, a policy group chaired by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Returning to the United Nations, Keating was the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (under the leadership of Staffan de Mistura and subsequently Ján Kubiš) and the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2012[6] and later headed the UN team that developed the ‘Human Rights Up Front’ plan of action (2012/13).

Between 2012 and 2015, Keating worked as an advisor to a number of conflict mediation bodies, including Intermediate and Search for Common Ground. During that time, he served as Senior Advisor to the Secretary-General's Special Envoy to Syria from 2014 until 2015.

In 2015, Keating was appointed an Associate Director at Chatham House in London, where he had initiated and directed a number of projects on topics including Afghanistan, natural resources and conflict, the [https://mei.chathamhouse.org/?section=intro Moving Energy Initiative], and humanitarian engagement with non-state armed groups.

Other activities

Keating has served as a Trustee or Board member for non profit bodies including Afghan Connection[7] and the Ashden Awards. [8]

Personal life

Keating is married and has four children.

Works

He has written for a wide variety of journals, newspapers and other publications. Selected academic works include:

'War and Peace in Somalia: National Grievances, Local Conflict and Al-Shabaab' [9](Hurst/OUP 2018; co-editor with Matt Waldman)

'The Politics of Security in Somalia' (2018) with Sagal Abshir (New York University Centre on International Co[10]operation)

‘The Contribution of Human Rights to Protecting People in Conflict’ (2016) with Richard Bennett in ‘Protection of Civilians’ (Ed Haidi Wilmot et al.), Oxford University Press

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/protection-of-civilians-9780198729266?cc=us&lang=en&

‘Towards a Principled Approach to Engagement with Non-state Armed Groups for Humanitarian Purposes’ (2016) with Patricia Lewis, Chatham House. https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/towards-principled-approach-engagement-non-state-armed-groups-humanitarian-purposes

‘Addressing Natural Resource Conflicts’ (2015) with Oli Brown, Chatham House, 2015. https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/files/chathamhouse/field/field_document/20150619AddressingConflictResourcesBrownKeating.pdf

‘Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism’ (2015) Paper for The Council of Councils Annual Conference, Council of Foreign Relations

http://i.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Council%20of%20Councils%20Annual%20Conference%202015_Panelist%20Papers_FINAL.pdf

‘Military and Civilian Assistance to Afghanistan 2001-14: An Incoherent Approach’ (2015) with Barbara Stapleton, Chatham House

https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/files/chathamhouse/field/field_document/20150722MilitaryCivilianAssistanceAfghanistanStapletonKeating.pdf

‘Input Subsidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi: Towards an African Green Revolution’ (2009) with Glenn Denning, Jeffrey Sachs et al. in PLoS Biology

http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:192482

‘Counting the Cost of Corruption in Malawi: A Perspective from the Field’ (2007) Pacific McGeorge Global Business and Development Law Journal, Vol 20.

http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/index.aspx?mainid=485&issuedate=2008-03-20

‘Aid, Diplomacy and Facts on the Ground – The Case of Palestine’ (2005) Book edited with Anne Le More and Robert Lowe, Chatham House/Brookings

https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/books/archive/view/63288

‘Dilemmas of Humanitarian Assistance in Afghanistan’ (1998) in ‘Fundamentalism Reborn?’ Ed William Maley, New York University Press 1998

http://nyupress.org/books/9780814755860/

The World Today. Daily Challenges of the UN Chief in Somalia. June 2016

https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/twt/michael-keating

Guardian. Aid Agencies Must Re-wire their Approach to Refugees’ Energy Needs June 2015

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jun/20/aid-agencies-refugees-energy-access-moving-energy-initiative-unhcr-einstein

New York Times – An Afghan Write Off is Not an Option. January 2013

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/opinion/global/an-afghanistan-write-off-isnt-an-option.html?_r=0

Guardian - Real Security in Afghanistan depends upon people’s basic needs being met. January 2013

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/21/security-afghanistan-basic-needs

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/press/en/2011/sga1298.doc.htm|title=Secretary-General Appoints Michael Keating of United Kingdom Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan}}
2. ^http://www.eip.org/en/news-events/special-announcement-michael-keating-new-executive-director-4
3. ^www.chathamhouse.org/system/files/publications/twt/twt-2016-03-week-life-michael-keating.pdf
4. ^www.voanews.com/amp/4571406.html
5. ^Jeffrey Gettleman (February 7, 2017), [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/africa/somalia-election-corruption.html Fueled by Bribes, Somalia’s Election Seen as Milestone of Corruption] New York Times.
6. ^Rob Nordland (February 3, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/world/asia/cold-weather-kills-children-in-afghan-refugee-camps.html Driven Away by a War, Now Stalked by Winter’s Cold] New York Times.
7. ^afghanconnection.org
8. ^ashden.org
9. ^www.hurstpublishers.com/book/war-and-peace-in-somalia/
10. ^https://cic.nyu.edu/publications/politics-security-somalia
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