Julie Vanderperre

Julie Vanderperre is a recent political science graduate of McGill University in Montreal. She has written for the McGill Tribune and was an intern for AID India in Chennai and for Social Justice Connection in Montreal. She currently works for France-Amerique Magazine in New York and speaks English, French and Spanish.

The Vancouver Principles, New Steps to Help UN Peacekeepers Stop Child-Soldier Use

Julie Vanderperre
• November 13, 2017

The one sure announcement to emerge from the annual United Nations peacekeeping defense ministerial conference this week will be the adoption of the Vancouver Principles, a set of rules aimed primarily at preventing the recruitment and use of child…

Categories: Child Soldiers, UN Peacekeeping

$5 Million Grant From Microsoft Will Help UN Track Human-Rights Abuses

Julie Vanderperre
• July 20, 2017

As political instability, conflicts and migration proliferate across the world, technology has become a potential solution for identifying and predicting human-rights violations, which play a major role instigating upheavals. Smartphones enable instant updates and eyewitness accounts of events happening…

Categories: Human Rights

GEOPOLITICS

Canada Is Still Wavering in Its Pledge to UN Peacekeeping

Julie Vanderperre
• April 20, 2017

Although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged in a splashy way right after his 2015 election to “renew Canada’s commitment to United Nations peace operations,” the country’s contribution to peacekeeping remains at an all-time low. Since Trudeau’s seemingly impetuous campaign…

Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations

GEOPOLITICS

Can a Trusteeship Rescue South Sudan? Unlikely, Experts Say

Julie Vanderperre
• February 22, 2017

The intense civil conflict in South Sudan that broke out in December 2013 and has brought the world’s youngest nation to the edge of genocide has not subsided, with no solution in sight. Once more, the United Nations Security…

Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations

GEOPOLITICS

Top Sellers of Weapons to the Developing World in 2015? US and France

Julie Vanderperre
• January 18, 2017

A responsibility to promote worldwide cooperation toward peace and security is not the only role that the permanent-five veto-wielding powers in the United Nations Security Council have in common. Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States are also…

Categories: Disarmament, Geopolitics, Middle East

As Terrorist Threats Rise in Mali, the Dutch Slowly Pull Out of Peacekeeping

Julie Vanderperre
• November 10, 2016

The Dutch contingent of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali is withdrawing its seven helicopters from the operation by spring, leaving a wide hole in reconnaissance and intelligence gathering for the mission that desperately needs those assets. With no…