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10 Trends in Peace Operations
The last two years have seen a surge in peace operations. As the data in this review shows, UN deployments grew by 8.5% in 2013 and 2014 to involve over 100,000 soldiers and police officers. In the same period, NATO drew down its presence in Afghanis Read More...
African Peace Operations
The goal of the Global Peace Operations Review is to provide the most comprehensive overview of multilateral contributions to peacekeeping, conflict prevention, and post-conflict peacebuilding. In doing this, our objective is to take a focus on all p Read More...
Can Attack Helicopters Save U.N. Peacekeeping?
Does U.N. peacekeeping matter? President Barack Obama believes that it does — and he has advocated the cause more forcefully than any of his predecessors since George H. W. Bush, who once looked to the U.N. to help forge a “new world order.” Th Read More...
Can we make UN peacekeeping great again?
If UN peacekeeping operations are “at a crossroads” as the Secretary-General told the Security Council on 6 April, then it is a policy and linguistic roundabout. This is the same phrase that a senior official used to describe the Brahimi report i Read More...
Conflict Prevention
The need for a greater emphasis on conflict prevention is a common theme of the major reports of 2015 on peace operations, peacebuilding, and UNSC Resolution 1325. It is a broad subject area that cuts across the wide spectrum of peace operations. Co Read More...
Joint Special Representative of the UN and the LAS for Syria
Joint Special Representative of the UN and the LAS for Syria
Lessons from Multilateral Envoys
This is the first essay in a series of seven that looks at the role of multilateral envoys in peacemaking.
Mediation was a central concern for the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations convened in October 2014. The group had a deliberatel Read More...
Meet the Envoys: Trends in Envoy Profiles and Appointments
This is the fourth essay in a series of seven that looks at the role of multilateral envoys in peacemaking.
Since the first UN mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte, was appointed in 1948 to serve as UN Mediator in Palestine, multilateral institutions h Read More...
Middle East
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Multilateral Envoys: Challenges to Assessing Success
This is the sixth essay in a series of seven that looks at the role of multilateral envoys in peacemaking.
Envoys dispatched to make peace deploy with a bag full of assumptions. Those who send them believe the multilateral framework gives their emi Read More...
Peacebuilding
The challenge of effectively building and sustaining peace has reemerged on the agenda of the United Nations as a priority issue. An Advisory Group of Experts concluded in their June 2015 Report that peacebuilding has been largely left as an after Read More...
Preventing Violent Extremism by Protecting Rights And Addressing Root Causes
Short-sighted policies, failed leadership, heavy-handed approaches, a single-minded focus only on security measures and an utter disregard for human rights have often made things worse.
The eagerly-awaited United Nations Plan of Action to Prevent Vi Read More...
Protection of Civilians needs to be understood as a collaborative strategy and not a campsite
In Bentiu and other protection of civilian sites in South Sudan, the UN peacekeeping mission performs all the functions of a state within a state. With the help of humanitarian partners, it feeds, protects, and organizes those displaced by a bitter i Read More...
Restructuring the UN Secretariat to Strengthen Preventative Diplomacy and Peace Operations
Since 1945, the United Nations has helped support many successful peace processes and protected millions of civilians around the world. Peace operations deliver results: research estimates suggest that the presence of a UN peace keeping mission can Read More...
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Strategic Summary
Changing Realities: New Dimensions of Peace Operations One month before launching the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations to examine the state of UN peacekeeping operations and political missions, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon remark Read More...
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| Alischa Kugel | One month before launching the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations to examine the state of UN peacekeeping operations and political missions, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon remarked the time had come to take st Read More...
Support Mechanisms: Multilateral, Multi-Level, and Mushrooming
This is the seventh essay in a series of seven that looks at the role of Multilateral Envoys in Peacemaking.
The idea that “peace processes must be well-supported politically, technically and financially”, as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon sta Read More...
Syria
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The Tunisia Conundrum: Sowing dictatorship, harvesting terrorism
Why is Tunisia producing the world’s largest numbers of jihadi foreign fighters when the country is seemingly the one success story emerging from the 2011 Arab uprisings? It is a conundrum that has confounded analysts not least because the answers Read More...
The UN Panel on Peace Operations: Getting the Politics Right?
All peace operations are political. Ian Martin wrote an essay with that title in CIC’s first Review of Political Missions in 2010. It is unsurprising, then, that the report of the High-Level Panel on Peace Operations of which he has been a prominen Read More...
Three’s a Crowd? Inter-Organisational Cooperation in Conflict Mediation
This is the second essay in a series of seven that looks at the role of multilateral envoys in peacemaking.
Out of the at least 51 multilateral envoys deployed in 2013 to address conflict situations around the world, 28 envoys from different multil Read More...
Towards a Continental Strategy for Countering Violent Extremism in Africa
Violent Extremism is now recognized as a growing threat to peace and security in Africa, as exemplified by the recent terrorist attacks in Garissa, Abidjan, and Ouagadougou. While much of the policy discussion on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) fo Read More...
UN Peace Operations and Counter-Terrorism – A Bridge Too Far?
During the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Barack Obama chaired two summits – the first on peace operations on September 28, and one the following day on counter-terrorism. His participation in both demonstrated the level of commitm Read More...
Where Envoys Aren’t
This is the fifth essay in a series of seven that looks at the role of multilateral envoys in peacemaking.
This series of essays was conceived to document and analyze the work of multilateral envoys, particularly their engagement in efforts to media Read More...