Peace and Security
- 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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- Kacie Candela
- • August 7, 2018
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Women have historically been underrepresented across the United Nations system, but notably in peacekeeping, one of the most highly visible activities of the world body. And while the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations publishes monthly data on troop- and…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, Women
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- Joe Penney
- • May 8, 2018
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A new series called “Peacebuilders,” offering a weekly podcast of interviews with a diverse array of African and other professionals on vital issues they confront in their work in East Africa, has been introduced by the Carnegie Corporation of…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Andrew McIndoe
- • May 3, 2018
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After seven years of horrific fighting, it appears that the Syrian civil war is inching toward a conclusion. In the wake of recent alleged chemical attacks unleashed in Eastern Ghouta, Bashar al-Assad’s regime is squeezing remaining rebel forces, largely…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 16, 2018
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In a year in which swaths of territory were liberated in Iraq and Syria from the grip of ISIS, enabling the release of women and girls and others from the extremists, the United Nations’ annual report on conflict-related sexual…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Myanmar, Peace and Security, Refugees
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- Irwin Arieff
- • April 15, 2018
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Whatever else came out of the latest American-led strikes on Syrian chemical weapon sites, it put on display rare signs of diplomatic skill on the part of the Trump administration, even if those signs first surfaced at the Pentagon…
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 13, 2018
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In a week of reversals, semireversals and blatant backtracking by some of the most powerful countries on earth, diplomacy showed its head-spinning underside in the United Nations Security Council, as three Western allies — Britain, France and the United…
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 2, 2018
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As peacekeepers sweat and toil and risk their lives in some of the world’s most lethal settings — South Sudan, Mali, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo — it is incumbent on the United Nations and its…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • March 28, 2018
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Much ado — during 25 years of fruitless negotiations — has been made about the need for the United Nations General Assembly to achieve more equitable geographical representation in the UN Security Council. Article 23(1) of the UN Charter,…
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 19, 2018
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The United Nations Security Council, perhaps needing a change of scenery from its chamber overlooking the East River in New York, is traveling to the southern Swedish coast in April for an annual retreat whose theme this year is…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2018
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Responding to a December request from the General Assembly for details on how he proposes to staff and pay for sweeping changes in political affairs and peacekeeping at the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres has drafted a 50-page explanation…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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- Enrico Carisch
- • March 8, 2018
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Criticisms over a lack of fairness of United Nations sanctions and inconsistencies in their application are frequent and routine — and not without justification. For decades, human-rights experts have pointed to the paradox that unreliable practices, in the words…
- Categories: P5 Monitor, Peace and Security, Security Council
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