UN Peacekeeping
- Joe Penney
- • May 8, 2018
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
- Andrew McIndoe
- • May 3, 2018
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: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Giovanna Marques Kuele and Adriana Erthal Abdenur
- • April 23, 2018
NAIROBI — With the budget cuts to peace operations implemented last year and the prospect of even more reduction in resources, debates about United Nations peacekeeping effectiveness have intensified. One of the areas sorely in need of innovation is…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 2, 2018
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
- Mona Ali Khalil
- • March 28, 2018
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, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2018
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
- Joanne Myers
- • January 15, 2018
Marie Deschamps is a former justice on the Supreme Court of Canada who led the groundbreaking 2015 United Nations report of an independent review on sexual exploitation and abuse by international peacekeeping forces in the Central African Republic. Deschamps…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, UN Peacekeeping
- James Cunliffe
- • January 9, 2018
The 15 deaths and 43 injuries to United Nations troop personnel in the North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in December would not, sadly, have surprised those of us who have served in peace enforcement…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Susan Manuel
- • December 27, 2017
The horrific attack on United Nations peacekeepers from Tanzania in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in early December and the ensuing hours-long battle was a severe blow to one of the UN’s more prized forces, leaving 15 soldiers…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
- Kacie Candela
- • December 26, 2017
The South Sudan Council of Churches is an umbrella organization for seven Christian denominations — African Inland Church, Catholic, Episcopal, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Evangelical Presbyterian and Sudan Interior Church — working on peace and reconciliation in South Sudan and based…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
- Adriana Erthal Abdenur
- • December 4, 2017
There is no denying that sexual exploitation and abuse has acquired greater urgency within the context of United Nations peace operations. Although the UN launched its zero tolerance policy in 2003, a recent report tallied some two thousand accusations…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Julie Vanderperre
- • November 13, 2017
The one sure announcement to emerge from the annual United Nations peacekeeping defense ministerial conference this week will be the adoption of the Vancouver Principles, a set of rules aimed primarily at preventing the recruitment and use of child…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, UN Peacekeeping
- Susan Manuel
- • November 9, 2017
The population it serves can misunderstand a United Nations peacekeeping mandate. In the host country, with people’s lives, infrastructure and administrative systems often rendered dysfunctional by conflict, the population expects peacekeepers to restore order, build roads and other essentials,…
- Categories: Caribbean, Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
- Benoit Bryche
- • October 30, 2017
TIMBUKTU — Who wants peace in Mali? If everyone says they want it, why is carrying out the 2015 peace agreement and its cease-fire so difficult? Part of the challenge for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali is…
- Categories: Africa, Terrorism, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Giovanna Kuele
- • October 10, 2017
In 2007, for the first time in history, United Nations forces operated an unmanned aerial vehicle — a small prototype for a short period by the UN mission in Haiti. In 2013, the UN officially launched drones (formally known…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
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