Join Harvard's Davis Center for a discussion with Alexander Hug, former principal deputy chief monitor of the OSCE's Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. Mr. Hug will speak about his experience overseeing the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Eastern Ukraine and discuss the prospect of deescalation through negotiation in the region in 2020.

Alexander Hug is an independent expert on conflict resolution and security issues. Until the end of 2018, Hug was the principal deputy chief monitor of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine since the inception of the Mission in early 2014. Before this appointment, Hug was section head and a senior adviser to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities in The Hague. He is a trained lawyer and served as an officer in the Swiss Army, including a stint as regional commander of the Swiss Headquarters Support Unit for the OSCE in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has also worked for the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, the Temporary International Presence in the southern West Bank city of Hebron (TIPH), and the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX). 

Speakers:

Alexander Hug, former principal deputy chief monitor, Special Monitoring Mission (Ukraine), OSCE

Arvid Bell (moderator), director, Negotiation Task Force; lecturer on government, Harvard University