United Nations Peace Organizations and Law Symposium-Adjutant General Panel

Office of the Chief of Public Affairs Midwest
Story by Annie Chambers

Date: 07.08.2011
Posted: 07.08.2011 16:51
News ID: 73462
Maj. Gen. Andrew Turley at the Adjutant General Panel

CHICAGO - The Adjutant General Panel at the United Nations Peace Operations and Law Symposium was held in downtown Chicago on July 8.

The panel included: Maj. Gen. William Enyart, The Adjutant General of Illinois; Brig. Gen. Donald Dunbar, The Adjutant General of Wisconsin; and Maj. Gen. Andrew Turley, Air National Guard Assistant to the Judge Advocate General. The Adjutant General Panel spoke mainly about the National Guard's State Partnership Program.

The audience consisted of U.S. and foreign military legal personnel, law and political science professors, ambassadors, and legal representatives from several large non-government organizations.

The symposium topic was ‘A Decade of Peace’ and various distinguished guests, both civilian and military, discussed the success and failures in peacekeeping and SSTR (stability, security, transition and reconstruction) operations that have influenced current operations, impacted emerging missions and fostered state-to-state partnerships.