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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 17, 2016
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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
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 23, 2016
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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
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 11, 2016
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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
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 2, 2015
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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
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- Opinion by Rosa Freedman
- • May 29, 2015
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BIRMINGHAM, England — Today is International Day of United Nations Peacekeeping — a day to acknowledge and celebrate the hundreds of thousands of men and women who work in UN peace missions across the world. Despite not being mentioned…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 1, 2015
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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
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 18, 2015
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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
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 11, 2014
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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
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- Steven Edwards
- • September 29, 2014
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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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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 4, 2014
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China has dipped a big toe in peacekeeping waters by sending its first-ever infantry troops to work for a United Nations mission — in this case, Mali, where a mission was set up last summer to stabilize the country…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Peace and Security
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 1, 2014
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The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations tried to maintain calm in many regions in 2013, but none more so than in Africa. In December alone, it lost numerous peacekeepers in three missions on the continent. By year’s end,…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 12, 2013
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Since Security Council resolutions began demanding more significant attention to roles for women in conflict areas and the peace-building that follows, much of the discussion has justifiably centered on protection of civilians, because women and their children suffer most…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 3, 2013
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The new United Nations peacekeeping mission to be activated on July 1 in Mali will have not only a huge contingent of West African soldiers, who are training there right now, but could also have on board Brazilians, Chinese…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 8, 2012
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When leaders of the world start descending on the United Nations in September for the opening of a new General Assembly session, there will two new internationally well-known figures in prominent positions at the top of the organization. In…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, Secretary-General
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 20, 2012
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A day after the United Nations Security Council refused to adopt a British-sponsored resolution that would have sanctioned the Syrian government if fighting persisted, the council agreed unanimously to renew the mandate of the UN mission in the country…
- Categories: Security Council
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