UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 18, 2015
While restructuring at the top of the United Nations and better strategies and tactics for troops on the ground are issues provoking discussion and controversy after the recent release of a report by a high-level panel on current and…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 16, 2015
The creation of a new office of deputy secretary-general for peace and security to consolidate and hasten United Nations’ responses to conflicts, and a surprising suggestion that the UN should not undertake missions involving counterterrorism were two major recommendations…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 15, 2015
More than five years have passed since the heart of Haiti was crushed by a cataclysmic earthquake that killed at least 230,000 people, only to be followed by an outbreak of cholera later that year that has left about…
- Categories: Caribbean, Health and Population, UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 2, 2015
United Nations peacekeeping needs new kinds of tools and troops to counter the demands posed by forces waging catastrophic wars beyond the control of governments and without even a semblance of adherence to the most rudimentary ethical rules of…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- Sam J. Trudeau
- • April 15, 2015
Facing a surge in violence that has made it the United Nations’ deadliest peacekeeping operations now, the UN mission in Mali is struggling to convince populations in the north of the country that it can overcome the remaining obstacles…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Alexander Brotman
- • April 6, 2015
The small Central American nation of El Salvador has been playing an increasingly active role in United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world. From the UN mission in Haiti to the one in South Sudan, troops from El Salvador…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 16, 2015
A report commissioned by the United Nations but never made public — which studied sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN peacekeepers — has been released online by AIDS-Free World, a nonprofit organization founded by two former UN officials,…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Johanna Higgs
- • March 5, 2015
NEAR TINDOUF, Algeria — Our goal was to understand the dynamics of women who live in the refugee camps here in the Sahara Desert, where tens of thousands of Sahrawi people reside in tents and mud-brick buildings, having fled…
- Categories: Africa, Refugees, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 1, 2015
As Colombia’s long civil war appears to be headed toward a hard-sought peaceful settlement, the government may be ready to send soldiers from its huge, well-financed military to participate in peacekeeping missions of the United Nations. Colombian forces’ work in…
- Categories: Caribbean, Child Soldiers, UN Peacekeeping
- Kathie Klarreich
- • January 20, 2015
On Jan. 23, the members of the United Nations Security Council will head to Haiti. It’s safe to assume that they will focus on the political crisis: because parliamentary elections were not held by Haiti’s legislative deadline, the…
- Categories: Caribbean, Gender Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 18, 2015
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali, the most demanding and bloodiest operation in the organization’s global portfolio, is moving its major functions from its base in Bamako, the capital, to Gao, a remote city also on the Niger…
- Categories: Africa, Libya, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 15, 2014
Ameerah Haq, who will serve as vice chair of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s newly appointed high-level panel reviewing United Nations peace operations, has strong views on putting torn countries back together. Haq, a UN official about to retire after nearly…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 11, 2014
By the time United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named a panel in October to review peacekeeping comprehensively for the first time in more than 14 years, innovations in technology and intelligence-gathering to make UN missions more effective had already…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, UN Agencies, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 1, 2014
Albert Gerard Koenders, the United Nations special envoy for the Mali peacekeeping mission, may be leaving that post in Bamako, the capital, to return to his native Netherlands as the new foreign minister. Neither the UN nor the Dutch…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping
- Steven Edwards
- • September 29, 2014
It may seem that major current triumphs are hard to find when it comes to the work of United Nations Peacekeeping Department and its blue-helmeted military, police and civilian units, which have hit a record high number of 130,000…
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