Graciana del Castillo

Graciana del Castillo is a senior fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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The Role of the Private Sector in Building Peace: It’s Essential

December 11, 2018

by Graciana del Castillo

Another year of Secretary-General António Guterres’s reform of the peace and security pillar of the United Nations is ending without fully addressing a main obstacle to peacebuilding in conflict-torn countries under UN intervention: sustainable economic recovery. The key question facing the UN is how to support economic reconstruction amid the political, security and social reforms …

Development, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS

António Guterres, gender equality, IMF and peace building, private sector and peace building, UN peace-building, UN Security Council

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The UN Secretary-General’s Disappointing Peace-Building Proposal

December 11, 2017

by Graciana del Castillo

Since the end of the Cold War, a diverse group of countries at low levels of development emerged from intrastate conflicts and embarked on a complex transition to peace, stability and prosperity. All aspects of such transitions are closely interrelated and reinforce each other. Simultaneous security, political, social and economic activities compete for scarce …

Peace and Security, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS

"Obstacles to Peacebuilding", Antonio Guterres and UN reform, UN peace-building reforms, UN reform

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For Afghanistan to Thrive, Rural Women Need Economic Opportunities

June 4, 2014

by Graciana del Castillo

A virtuous circle of peace, stability and prosperity will not be possible in Afghanistan if the large majority of women continue to be marginalized. A major concern of the international community in the post-2014 period is to ensure that some of the gains that women living in urban places have experienced since 9/11 are …

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Afghan women, Afghan women's economic empowerment, Afghan women's empowerment, gender equality, gender rights in Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton and productivity of women, microfinance in Afghanistan, Rural Afghan women, USAID in Afghanistan, women in war-torn countries, women's empowerment

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Rebuilding War-Torn States: Is the UN System Up to the Challenges?

October 24, 2013

by Graciana del Castillo

Despite the peculiarities of each particular case, when civil wars or other chaos end, countries need to address the root causes of the conflict to make the fragile peace sustainable. In this context, countries need to establish public security; to create participatory political systems with good governance and respect for the rule of law …

Development

CUNY, development in war-torn nations, economic reconstruction, economics of peace, Future United Nations Development System (FUNDS), Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

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Graciana del Castillo

The Role of the Private Sector in Building Peace: It’s Essential

The UN Secretary-General’s Disappointing Peace-Building Proposal

For Afghanistan to Thrive, Rural Women Need Economic Opportunities

Rebuilding War-Torn States: Is the UN System Up to the Challenges?

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