UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 24, 2019
Since 2012, a German political think tank has surveyed Malians regularly on their country’s current affairs across a legion of crises. These include the 2013 jihadist incursion in the nation, the French-led militarization to oust the jihadists, the post-conflict…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 29, 2019
Two years have passed since the shooting murders of Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalán, independent experts working for the United Nations Security Council in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in March 2017. Sharp, a 34-year-old American, and Catalán,…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- La Rainne Pasion
- • April 29, 2019
The Trump administration’s unilateral decision to stop paying its full United Nations peacekeeping bills is hanging peacekeeping missions out to dry while creating financial woes for the countries that provide the blue-helmeted troops and police officers, United Nations Secretary-General António…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Thomas G. Weiss and Giovanna Kuele
- • February 12, 2019
Africa, Asia and Latin America provide more than 90 percent of military and police personnel to United Nations peace operations and contribute about 15 percent of the budget. China, hardly a legitimate representative of the Global South as the world’s second-largest…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Mona Ali Khalil
- • November 30, 2018
The recent attack by a militia on the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in which seven peacekeepers were killed, highlighted a question that the Security Council has hesitated to confront for years. What are the consequences when UN peacekeeping…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 29, 2018
United Nations peacekeepers working for the mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were killed by a militia in a jungle in North Kivu Province on Nov. 15, leaving seven soldiers dead: six Malawians and one Tanzanian. Ten…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations
- Alexandra Lamarche
- • November 12, 2018
This is a make-or-break moment for the Central African Republic. After years of conflict, a small window of opportunity is open to make real progress toward peace. The United Nations peacekeeping mission’s mandate is being renewed by the Security…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Rhona Scullion
- • October 29, 2018
In the early morning of Tuesday, April 3, 2018, a temporary United Nations peacekeeping base in the village of Tagbara, in the Central African Republic, was attacked by rebel militia groups. One peacekeeper was killed and 11 others were…
- Categories: Africa, ICC, UN Peacekeeping
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • October 4, 2018
Just days before the United Nations held a meeting with heads of state and foreign ministers on Secretary-General António Guterres’s Action for Peacekeeping initiative, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2436 on peace operations, on Sept. 21. Drafted…
- Categories: Geopolitics, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Karim Makdisi
- • September 11, 2018
BEIRUT — In late August, the United Nations Security Council unanimously renewed its peacekeeping operation in southern Lebanon, called Unifil. The less confrontational tone around the negotiation of Resolution 2433, contrasting with the heated debate on the renewal a…
- Categories: Middle East, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 21, 2018
The newest person to venture into kick-starting talks between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots on the long-divided island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean is Jane Holl Lute. She is an American with a military and national-security background…
- Kacie Candela
- • August 7, 2018
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
- Justine Masika Bihamba
- • July 26, 2018
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been placed on the United Nations Security Council agenda for several decades, in one form or another through various peacekeeping missions. The Council regularly meets on the status of the Congo, with the…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Susan Manuel
- • July 1, 2018
The United Nations has been given the green light from its 193 member nations to embark on a major overhaul of its operations, based on a trio of reform proposals put forth by Secretary-General António Guterres in the last…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- Mona Ali Khalil
- • May 20, 2018
Since 1999, the United Nations Security Council has consistently entrusted its peacekeeping operations with clear authority to use force beyond self-defense — primarily for the protection of civilians. To fulfill the mandate, the Council expects UN peacekeeping forces to take…
- Categories: Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
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