Peace and Security
- Ben Whitford
- • July 11, 2017
A hard-hitting report published in April 2017 by the United Nations Security Council sanctions panel monitoring South Sudan was potentially marred by weakly sourced allegations about arms sales from Egypt and elsewhere, according to a senior Egyptian diplomat and…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, Security Council
- François Rihouay
- • June 24, 2017
It always took me ages to hit the road to the Kangaba camp. Leaving downtown Bamako can be tricky, especially if your place is baco fé — on the far bank of the Niger River — as they say in…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Terrorism, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 9, 2017
The United Nations has formalized its relationship with the Community of Sant’Egidio, the highly regarded Catholic membership organization based in Rome that has been focusing on conflict prevention and resolution, primarily in Africa, for 30 years. A community of…
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Human Trafficking, International Justice, Libya, Migration, Peace and Security
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 29, 2017
When the White House sent its proposed 2018 budget to the United States Congress on May 23, it was apparent that not only would a hawkish, nationalistic focus on military expenditures come at the cost of international aid and…
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 22, 2017
It will come as no surprise to regular consumers of news that in the new Fragile States Index, published on May 15, South Sudan is at the top of the ranks of endangered countries and tranquil Finland is the…
- Categories: Governance, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Take a Look
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 21, 2017
A board of inquiry looking into major gaps or flaws in United Nations security policies that might have contributed to the murders of two UN experts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was set up May 1, according…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Keith Porter
- • May 8, 2017
We stand on the shoulders of those who created the international order, which has prevented world war for more than 70 years. “American leaders who laid foundations of the contemporary world order envisioned a world in which all peoples…
- Categories: ICC, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 2, 2017
Moving away from strictly categorizing rape and other sexual abuse against women as a weapon of war, a new report from the United Nations addresses the increasing use of rape as a weapon of terrorism. The report also documents…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Libya, Middle East, Peace and Security, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 18, 2017
Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, presided over what she was determined to sell as “an historic meeting exclusively on human rights” in the UN Security Council. But her brief speech in the April 18…
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 16, 2017
The Trump administration, buoyed by a powerful anti-internationalist movement among conservative Republicans in the United States Congress, is headed for a new confrontation with the United Nations over who decides how much the US should pay for peacekeeping. With…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Take a Look, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Kacie Candela
- • March 22, 2017
Jess Engrebretson is a different kind of humanitarian-aid worker. As an American journalist and Thomas J. Watson Fellow, she has worked with local radio projects in Indonesia, Rwanda and Liberia on post-conflict resolution and human-rights reporting. From 2014 to…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 5, 2017
Thirty-two days in office as United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres spoke extensively to the media for the first time at UN headquarters, on Feb. 1. Indicative of the chaos gripping many parts of the world as a result of…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 3, 2017
He is no longer the “next SG,” as Twitter posts have been referring in the last few months to António Guterres, the man who was selected by the United Nations Security Council in October to lead the world body…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Terrorism, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • December 21, 2016
The butterfly effect teaches us that seemingly insignificant actions can have enormous future consequences. A tiny pair of fluttering wings can disturb the air in a way that helps trigger a hurricane halfway around the world. Witness Syria, where…
- Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 20, 2016
Barely a day before Donald Trump set off a recent diplomatic crisis between China and the United States by backing Taiwan in a chatty phone call with the island’s president, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs published poll results…
- Categories: Asia, Governance, Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations
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