Acknowledgements

• Author: Alexandre Tavadian
• Pages: 21-21

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I owe my wife a great debt of thanks for her valuable advice, support,

and encouragement while I was writing this book. She spent count-

less hours reading my manuscript at dierent stages and providing

tremendously helpful feedback. I would like to express my gratitude

also to all those who contributed ideas or reviewed some chapters of

the book. In particular, I am grateful to Hasmik Egian, Director of the

Security Council Aairs Division of the UN Secretariat; Brian Gorlick,

former UN and UNHCR ocial and lecturer at University of London;

François Olivier Bouchard, Associate Legal Advisor of NATO Support

and Procurement Agency; Rafael Ruschel, Associate in DeBrauw

Blackstone Westbroek; and Marjorie Langlois, Associate and National

Representative in Unifor. I also would like to thank those who made

this book possible by exposing me to UN law, politics, and practice.

More specically, I am grateful to my friends and former supervisors,

Brian Gorlick and Elizabeth Brown, from whom I learned a great deal

about the United Nations system. I am equally grateful to my for-

mer colleagues in the internal justice system of the UN and in the

UNHCR.