UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2017
In his first national budget plan, released by the White House today, President Donald Trump proposed an aggressively pro-military and security-obsessed agenda that could severely cut funds to the State Department and the United Nations. Numerous other international programs…
- Categories: Take a Look, UN Agencies, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Julie Vanderperre
- • February 22, 2017
The intense civil conflict in South Sudan that broke out in December 2013 and has brought the world’s youngest nation to the edge of genocide has not subsided, with no solution in sight. Once more, the United Nations Security…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 5, 2017
Thirty-two days in office as United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres spoke extensively to the media for the first time at UN headquarters, on Feb. 1. Indicative of the chaos gripping many parts of the world as a result of…
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 21, 2017
Nikki Haley, President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the United States ambassador to the United Nations, appeared in a confirmation hearing on January 18 lasting more than three hours in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. She introduced herself in an…
- Categories: Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Donald T. Bliss
- • December 17, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Strong American leadership at the United Nations would greatly enhance President-elect Trump’s foreign policy agenda. United States investment in the UN is an effective use of taxpayer dollars to serve the US military, diplomatic, economic and…
- Julie Vanderperre
- • November 10, 2016
The Dutch contingent of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali is withdrawing its seven helicopters from the operation by spring, leaving a wide hole in reconnaissance and intelligence gathering for the mission that desperately needs those assets. With no…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
- Dali ten Hove
- • August 22, 2016
As the African Union ambitiously strives to end conflict and “silence the guns,” as it says, by 2020 amid rising instability across the continent, a new review by the World Peace Foundation on peacemaking efforts lays out how the…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 17, 2016
As China has projected its economic and military power more widely not only in Asia but also in Africa and to some extent in Latin America, little notice has been paid by the general public to another arena of…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
- Susan Manuel
- • May 28, 2016
The United Nations is looking for new blood to staff its peace operations while prompting long-serving employees to get out of headquarters and work in the field. In demand for jobs in UN peace operations are female managers, bilingual…
- Categories: UN Careers, UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 23, 2016
It has been almost a year since a sweeping assessment of United Nations peacekeeping operations by experts recommended significant changes from top to bottom: a reformed hierarchy in New York and greater coordination and discipline among military contingents in…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 11, 2016
Since its rollout in 2013, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali has been actively recruiting more European troops to strengthen its ranks of police, military and civilian personnel from African and Asian countries, typical sources for UN missions….
- Categories: Africa, Terrorism, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 17, 2015
A strongly worded independent report released Dec. 17 condemned the United Nations for bungled and deceptive responses to reports of sexual abuse of children by primarily French peacekeepers in the Central African Republic in 2014. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 28, 2015
Monday marked another memorable day for the United Nations, drawing a record number of international leaders for the opening of the General Assembly, but it took an altogether different tone than Friday’s welcome for Pope Francis. On Friday, at…
- Categories: General Assembly, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 16, 2015
An offensive against Boko Haram by a regional task force is preparing to deploy, led by Nigeria and its partners — Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin. At least that is the plan. Troops will number about 8,000 soldiers, with…
- Categories: Africa, Terrorism, UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 6, 2015
Almost five years after a rampaging cholera epidemic coursed through the Artibonite River region of Haiti and moved rapidly around the country, the United Nations, which acknowledges that a deadly strain of the disease originated in or around a…
- Categories: UN Agencies, UN Peacekeeping
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