Alan Doss
Alan Doss is the chair of the advisory board of the Oxford Global Society and former president of the Kofi Annan Foundation. He is the author of "A Peacekeeper in Africa: Learning From UN Interventions in Other People's Wars."
- Alan Doss
- • February 16, 2023
Last year was tough for United Nations peacekeeping operations, especially in Africa. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, local people demonstrated angrily against the perceived inability of peacekeepers to protect civilians in the east of the country. In…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Alan Doss
- • November 14, 2022
In September, the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda took their allegations against each other over the resurgence of conflict in the eastern Congo to the United Nations General Assembly. I recall vividly similar claims…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Alan Doss
- • October 28, 2021
The Taliban’s dramatic takeover of Afghanistan in August sparked a predictable outpouring of angst and argument as to why it happened despite the massive, two-decade effort to prevent that result. Much of the commentary focused on the supposed failures…
- Categories: Asia, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS
- Alan Doss
- • March 23, 2021
GENEVA — One of the quiet pleasures of life is an early-morning cappuccino in the company of a good newspaper. That was before Covid-19 came along. The pandemic and resulting disruption of newspaper deliveries and shuttering of cafes has…
- Categories: Development, SDGs, WORLDVIEWS
- Alan Doss
- • February 9, 2021
GENEVA — In May 2016, Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general, received an unexpected request from a fellow Nobel peace laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader and state counselor. She asked him to lead a…
- Categories: Myanmar, WORLDVIEWS
- Alan Doss
- • January 18, 2021
This year, two expansive — and expensive — international peace and security entities will pass a significant milestone. The United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the NATO operation in Afghanistan have been deployed…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Alan Doss
- • December 1, 2020
Recent events in Hong Kong should alert those people who hope that economic development can lead to democratic change. A few weeks ago, the territory’s fragile democratic order took another hit when opposition members of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council…
- Categories: Asia, Governance, Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Alan Doss
- • November 11, 2020
GENEVA — Three days before the recent, highly contentious United States presidential election occurred, another one was held in the West African country of Côte d’Ivoire. The two elections provide interesting comparisons and contrasts. The US and Côte d’Ivoire…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, WORLDVIEWS
- Alan Doss
- • October 27, 2020
GENEVA — The first time I set foot in the United States was just before the 1968 presidential election, when I joined the United Nations in New York City as a young staffer in the development aid program. I…
- Categories: Governance, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
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