About the Roundtable

Regional organisations have re-emerged at the forefront of peace and security as Western powers gradually retreat from established multilateral institutions. While rising powers and non-state entities are stepping forward to fill the gap left by the West, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other regional organisations in the Global South, several of the world’s longest-standing and most populous active regional organisations, are also well-positioned to fill this void and promote peace and security not only within their own territories but also globally.

This roundtable aims to identify the individual institutional strengths and potential joint contributions of ASEAN and other regional organisations in the Global South, including the African Union (AU), the African Regional Economic Communities (RECs), and Latin American regional organisations, in promoting peace and security in today’s fragmenting world order. It first provides an overview of the institutional features and actor constellations in each region, then maps potential areas for mutual learning and collaboration to address global trends and crises. Cooperation on such themes could provide opportunities for these organisations to strengthen their respective regional capacities and exercise agency in shaping the new global peace and security landscape.

About the Speaker

Jamie Pring is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She is also an Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and a lecturer at the University of Basel. Her research and teaching focus on norm diffusion in peacebuilding, inclusivity in peace processes, memory and transitional justice/Dealing with the Past in post-conflict societies, and the agency and security architectures of regional intergovernmental organisations in the Global South. As a CCDP Postdoctoral Researcher, Jamie’s Swiss National Science Foundation return grant project examines the fragmentation of regional peace and security regimes in Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.

Before her current roles, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Freie Universität Berlin, where she conducted a comparative study of the conflict prevention trend in major regional organisations in the Global South and analyzed the fragmentation of conflict early warning mechanisms in the African Union. Her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Basel examines the promotion of inclusivity in the mediation process of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in South Sudan.

Jamie has also worked in government and non-government organisations engaging in policy and research on regional peace and security. She was a program officer at swisspeace, where she supported swisspeace’ work in the Horn of Africa and published policy reports and practitioners’ guides. She obtained her Masters’ degree at the Geneva Graduate Institute and worked in Geneva-based think tanks on donor coordination in humanitarian demining, briefing and training policy officials on regional security developments, and evaluating peacebuilding and demining projects. Before arriving in Switzerland, Jamie served at the Philippine Department of National Defense, where she was the defense research officer for the Philippines’ defense relations with the United States and the country’s participation in the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meetings. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.