Conflict Prevention
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 9, 2017
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The United Nations has formalized its relationship with the Community of Sant’Egidio, the highly regarded Catholic membership organization based in Rome that has been focusing on conflict prevention and resolution, primarily in Africa, for 30 years. A community of…
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Human Trafficking, International Justice, Libya, Migration, Peace and Security
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- Yermi Brenner
- • April 24, 2013
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One of the most complicated dynamics in international relations is whether foreign powers should intervene when a government is creating a humanitarian crisis among its own people. David L. Phillips, a former a senior adviser to the United States…
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 3, 2013
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Two innovative women from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where violence against women and girls has been harsh and unrelenting through years of lawlessness and civil conflict, came to New York in early March with a message…
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- Opinion by Helmut Volger
- • December 27, 2012
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BERLIN — When Germany began its two-year tenure in 2011 as a nonpermanent member of the United Nations Security Council, its diplomats promised to hold a debate on climate change and to improve the protection of children in…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Opinion by Hugh Breakey - Charles Sampford - Ramesh Thakur
- • December 10, 2012
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CANBERRA, Australia — A steady rise has been occurring in the last two centuries in the proportion of civilians killed in armed conflict, either from direct violence or conflict-related hunger and disease. The international community has responded to the…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Responsibility to Protect
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- Mirva Lempiainen
- • November 28, 2012
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A dozen years have passed since the United Nations Security Council made history by adopting a resolution that addressed women’s rights during conflicts and required their participation in preventing wars and in peace talks. Until Resolution 1325was approved,…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 18, 2012
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Adama Dieng, the registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, has been named the United Nations secretary-general’s special adviser on the prevention of genocide. Dieng, a Senegalese, replaces Francis Deng of Sudan, who has been in the post…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, GOINGS-ON
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- Joe Penney
- • May 16, 2012
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DAKAR, Senegal — The fate of Guinea-Bissau hangs on precariously as regional and international bodies involved in resolving the country’s post-coup crisis, which forestalled a presidential run-off vote, disagree about pace and tactics. The complications from the coup and…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 30, 2012
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Jeffrey Feltman, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs at the US State Department, is said to be replacing B. Lynn Pascoe, the United Nations’ under secretary-general for political affairs, who has served for five years. The announcement…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 12, 2011
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The influential Council on Foreign Relations has joined the chorus of those who say the United States can no longer afford to act alone when trying to resolve crises across the globe. As the world witnesses a decline  in…
- Categories: US-UN Relations
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