The author, PDF at the ready, meeting Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in 2010 (Photo courtesy of the author).
In October 2007, my organisation (the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum at the SSRC) paid for two British consultants to go to Dili to help the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) plan its security sector review. This was part of a project designed to help UN peacekeepers access ideas and people to produce better policy.