Peace and Security
- Clair MacDougall
- • May 24, 2021
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Séverine Autesserre, a former humanitarian-aid worker, award-winning researcher and professor of political science at Columbia University, has become one of the foremost thinkers on international peace-building in the last decade. Following “Peaceland,” a book critically exploring the parallel worlds of United…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, Women as Changemakers
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- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • April 13, 2021
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In 2010, Maria Victoria (Mavic) Cabrera-Balleza founded an organization to help and advocate for the rights of women and girls globally, but it was her childhood experiences that first politicized her. Martial law was declared by the dictator President…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Women
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- Clair MacDougall
- • March 31, 2021
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — From above, the photographs show a stretch of charred land in the middle of the desert and a mass grave covered in dried tree branches, where people living around Bounti, a village in central Mali,…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Dali ten Hove
- • January 22, 2021
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THE HAGUE — An international agreement that bans nuclear weapons became operational on Jan. 22, more than 75 years after the detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki heralded the atomic age. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or…
- Categories: Disarmament, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Kseniya Oksamytna and Vincenzo Bove and Magnus Lundgren
- • July 7, 2020
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Leaders of United Nations peacekeeping operations comprise an important and unique category of high-level officials in the world body. They have a difficult and often thankless job of trying to manage “Christmas tree” mandates handed down by the Security…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • April 2, 2020
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With the incremental transformation the Security Council has gone through in March by transferring the bulk of its meetings online, the Dominican Republic’s special envoy to the United Nations intends to preside over the Council “like a sailboat, we’ll…
- Categories: Caribbean, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 5, 2020
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Over the past year China’s presence at the United Nations got suddenly noticed. It may be its more outgoing ambassador, Zhang Jun, its lobbying against human rights, its accession to high-level roles or the disengagement of the United States…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
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- N'Dongo Athie
- • October 22, 2019
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What’s new: The Impact:Peace initiative launched this summer to provide “real” impact on peace-building on the ground, its founders say. The goal of the million-dollar project is to significantly reduce conflict worldwide, while accelerating the most important changes in…
- Categories: Peace and Security
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • October 15, 2019
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Niemat Ahmadi, the founder and director of the Darfur Women Action Group, has a plan for the new Sudan. The Strategic Framework for Sustainable Change was presented to the country’s prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, during his participation in the…
- Categories: Africa, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Opinion by Irwin Arieff
- • October 14, 2019
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In early 1974, fresh out of journalism school, I walked into the offices of the newly created Federal Energy Office in Washington and asked for a job. Within days I was back — a freshly minted writer-editor in the…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 9, 2019
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Jerry Matthews Matjila, South Africa’s point man at the United Nations, took the hot seat on the Security Council as its president for October with busy days now in sight. “There are 40 meetings already planned before we start…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
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- Opinion by Richard Ponzio  and Cristina Petcu
- • June 25, 2019
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A year from now, on June 26, 2020, the international community will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter. That doesn’t leave much time to hammer out a “concise, substantive, forward-looking and unifying declaration”…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 21, 2019
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Simon Handy, a specialist in African politics and conflict, is a veteran of a hazardous and tormented mission in the Central African Republic that left him with an enduring cause that still haunts him. He argues that when a United…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • March 25, 2019
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Abigail Disney is an American filmmaker and philanthropist who founded Fork Films and Peace Is Loud, an advocacy group. She also founded — with her husband, Pierre Hauser — the Daphne Foundation. Since her 2009 film “Pray the Devil…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Peace and Security, Women
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- Opinion by Helmut Volger
- • January 21, 2019
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BERLIN — At the start of Germany’s sixth two-year term in the United Nations Security Council, the media attention in Germany is unusually high: numerous journalists on TV and radio are asking diplomats, politicians and foreign policy experts about…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council
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