UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 24, 2017
It is not surprising that António Guterres, the first United Nations secretary-general to be rooted in a life of politics and the first to have been a head of government, would look for a political strategy to address one…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
- Aurelie Domisse
- • September 15, 2017
BERLIN — Just as Germany’s run for a nonpermanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2019-20 term is gathering steam, its government has published a new white paper, titled “Preventing Crises, Managing Conflicts, Building Peace.” In…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 12, 2017
The United Nations’ top coordinator of a drive to end sexual exploitation and abuse in and around peacekeeping missions says the organization cannot succeed without more political support from member nations and cooperation from independent, civilian humanitarian and development…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Refugees, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 21, 2017
Haunted by accumulating reports of sexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls by United Nations peacekeepers and others attached to UN missions around the world, Secretary-General António Guterres is taking the bold, unprecedented step of asking all governments…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Fred Carver
- • August 17, 2017
LONDON — With little fanfare at the end of June, the United Nations General Assembly agreed to a peacekeeping budget for the financial year from July 2017 to July 2018. The budget contained significant cuts as well as a…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Susan Manuel
- • June 30, 2017
After a month of contentious debate between the United Nations Security Council and UN budget committees, agreement has been reached for the UN to stay focused on Mali and the Sahel region, where terrorism is threatening to destabilize the…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 28, 2017
Five months into her stint as United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley faced two days of often-sharp questioning on June 27 and 28 by influential panels of the United States Congress. They demanded justification for the…
- 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
- 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…
- Julie Vanderperre
- • April 20, 2017
Although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged in a splashy way right after his 2015 election to “renew Canada’s commitment to United Nations peace operations,” the country’s contribution to peacekeeping remains at an all-time low. Since Trudeau’s seemingly impetuous campaign…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- 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
- Shana L. Childs
- • April 13, 2017
Maj. Gen. Kristin Lund made history in 2014 when she was appointed the first female force commander of a United Nations peacekeeping mission — in this case, Cyprus. Still in active duty in the Norwegian military, General Lund, 58,…
- Categories: UN Careers, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 4, 2017
With White House proposals to slash United States assessments and donations to international organizations now in play in the writing of a federal budget for 2018 — as an April 28 deadline approaches — the extent of potential losses…
- Categories: Take a Look, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 29, 2017
Nikki Haley, the Trump administration’s ambassador to the United Nations took her ambitious plans and convictions about the role of the United States in the UN to the center of New York’s foreign policy establishment: the Council on Foreign…
- 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
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