UN Peacekeeping
- Ivana Ramirez
- • January 23, 2021
The Sahel humanitarian crisis grows; Biden is sworn in as the 46th United States president; the nuclear ban treaty enters into force. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the international organization. The information…
- Categories: Africa, Nuclear Disarmament, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- Alan Doss
- • January 18, 2021
This year, two expansive — and expensive — international peace and security entities will pass a significant milestone. The United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the NATO operation in Afghanistan have been deployed…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2020
In a year of anniversaries at the United Nations, one stands out of special interest to women in peacekeeping and humanitarian work in conflict zones and other arenas of crisis where civilian rights are trampled on and families and…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Karim Makdisi
- • September 3, 2020
On Aug. 28, the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to renew its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, called Unifil, for another year. This unanimity, however, masked what had been a series of heated informal discussions on the nature…
- Categories: Middle East, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • August 17, 2020
The devastating series of explosions that rocked Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Aug. 4, killed nearly 200 people, injured thousands of others, destroyed most of the city’s port, flattened surrounding neighborhoods, damaged six hospitals and more than 20…
- Categories: Covid-19, Middle East, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Clair MacDougall
- • August 5, 2020
OUAGADOUGOU,‌ ‌Burkina‌ ‌Faso‌ ‌–‌ ‌Fernando‌ ‌Guillén,‌ ‌un‌ ‌jugador‌ ‌de‌ ‌22‌ ‌años‌ ‌y‌ ‌YouTuber,‌ ‌encendió‌ ‌su‌ ‌computadora,‌ ‌tomó‌ ‌un‌ ‌sorbo‌ ‌de‌ ‌agua, y ‌respiró‌ ‌hondo‌ ‌y‌ ‌agradeció‌ ‌a‌ ‌Dios‌ ‌por‌ ‌estar‌ ‌vivo ‌antes‌ ‌de‌ ‌comenzar‌ ‌su‌ ‌transmisión‌ ‌en‌ ‌vivo‌ ‌a través de‌…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, UN Peacekeeping
- Clair MacDougall
- • July 27, 2020
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Fernando Guillén, a 22-year-old gamer and YouTuber, switched on his computer, took a sip of water and a deep breath and thanked God for being alive, before beginning his live stream on video games from…
- Categories: Covid-19, UN Peacekeeping
- Kseniya Oksamytna and Vincenzo Bove and Magnus Lundgren
- • July 7, 2020
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: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Niemat Ahmadi
- • May 27, 2020
The world plans to withdraw peacekeepers from Darfur by the end of this year. Without an alternative in place, this premature departure is a disaster in the making for the millions of Darfuris it will leave behind. While the…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Susan Manuel
- • May 5, 2020
Covid-19 has forced educators from preschools to universities to create digital classrooms overnight. But at least one global community has been using e-learning for more than a decade. Tens of thousands of United Nations peacekeepers from Chile to Bangladesh…
- Categories: Covid-19, UN Peacekeeping
- Melanne Verveer  and Robert Nagel
- • April 8, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Covid-19 poses major challenges for people and governments around the world and for the United Nations. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for a global cease-fire on March 23 in recognition of the pandemic’s potentially devastating effects…
- Categories: Covid-19, UN Peacekeeping
- Susan A. Bartels
- • January 16, 2020
In Haiti, a young woman I’ll call Marie became involved with a United Nations peacekeeper from Brazil when she was 14 years old. She became pregnant. He was sent back to Brazil; she was ostracized by her family. In…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • December 3, 2019
Politics and understaffing are the main reasons the United States has still not paid its outstanding dues to the general budget of the United Nations, after much news coverage of the problem in early October. The UN is experiencing…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- Pérola Abreu Pereira and Giovanna Kuele
- • September 10, 2019
In one of the world’s most fragile and violent settings, Lieut. Comdr. Marcia Braga, a 45-year-old Brazilian naval officer, arrived in April 2018 as the third military gender adviser for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Dennis Jett
- • July 16, 2019
The United Nations was not even three years old when it launched its first peacekeeping mission in 1948. For the last 70 years, it has been continuously involved in such operations, often with mixed results. Over that time, peacekeeping…
- Categories: Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
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