Diplomatic training in Eritrea

This short intervention is an excerpt from a longer interview with Stephen Chan conducted by Ruth Craggs in 2021. As an international civil servant Chan helped pioneer modern electoral observation in Zimbabwe in 1980, worked in many post-conflict zones – where ‘post’ was a largely fictional if politic appellation – and continues to be seconded to many diplomatic initiatives around the world today providing advice and training. In this intervention Stephen reflects with Ruth Craggs about his experience running diplomacy training in Ethiopia and Eritrea in the early 1990s.