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Indian sociologist named to UN committee to review peacebuilding
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Indian sociologist
Saraswathi Menon to a panel that will review peacebuilding activities.
The
announcement Thursday said, “Menon brings an extensive experience as a
researcher and academician as well as in the United Nations system.â€
Menon,
a former lecturer at Madras University, has extensive experience in
women's and development issue. She has been the director of the Policy
Division of UN-Women, the UN body for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women, and the director of the UN Development Program's
Evaluation Office. Her other UNDP assignments included postings in
Mongolia and Nepal.
She has a doctorate in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
The
others on the seven-member panel, formally known as “advisory group on
the review of the peacebuilding architectureâ€, include a retired
Pakistani major general, Anis Bajwa and Charles Petrie of France, who
headed an internal review panel on UN actions in Sri Lanka.
Ban formed the group at the request of the Presidents of the General Assembly and the Security Counci