Peace Operations Review Week: Reception and Film Screening

You are invited to a reception and film screening of Doves in Zero Gravity to kick-off the 2025 Peace Operations Review Week. The reception will start from 5:30-6:30pm followed by the film screening from 6:30-8:00pm on November 4, 2025.

In 2014, following the French military intervention, the UN Security Council established a United Nations peace operation in Mali. The forces were there to stabilize the country, help restore state authority and keep jihadis at bay. Despite a 2015 peace agreement between the government of Mali and secessionist armed groups, jihadi groups continued to gain ground in the Sahel. In 2020, a military junta took over the state and hired Wagner Group mercenaries, leading to the departure of the French military operation Barkhane, and the expulsion of the UN mission MINUSMA in 2023.

Immersed in the heart of the operational and decision-making bodies of the UN mission in Mali and New York, and enlightened by the testimony of those directly involved, Doves in Zero Gravity questions the international interventionist model and lost illusions of political solutions and peace processes, at a time when multiple asymmetric conflicts with a high contagious potential stoke fears of the return of global confrontation.

This film is directed by Christophe Gargot and is not an official product of the United Nations.