UN Peacekeeping
- Melanne Verveer  and Robert Nagel
- • April 8, 2020
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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
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- Susan A. Bartels
- • January 16, 2020
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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
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • December 3, 2019
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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
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- Pérola Abreu Pereira and Giovanna Kuele
- • September 10, 2019
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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
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- Opinion by Dennis Jett
- • July 16, 2019
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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: OPINIONS, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 24, 2019
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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
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 29, 2019
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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
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- La Rainne Pasion
- • April 29, 2019
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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
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- Opinion by Thomas G. Weiss and Giovanna Kuele
- • February 12, 2019
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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: OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • November 30, 2018
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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, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 29, 2018
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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
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- Opinion by Alexandra Lamarche
- • November 12, 2018
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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, OPINIONS, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Rhona Scullion
- • October 29, 2018
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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
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- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • October 4, 2018
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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
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- Opinion by Karim Makdisi
- • September 11, 2018
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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, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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