Jose Ramos-Horta
- Opinion by Adam Roberts
- • March 9, 2016
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OXFORD, England — The United Nations is going through one of its many difficult periods — so far as its central task of maintaining international peace and security is concerned. In Syria since 2011 and Ukraine since 2014, the…
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- Opinion by Peter Nadin
- • June 23, 2015
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SYDNEY, Australia — In August 2000, Lakhdar Brahimi, a prominent United Nations diplomat from Algeria, submitted his landmark review on UN peacekeeping to the secretary-general at the time, Kofi Annan. The previous year had been crucial for peacekeeping. The retrenchment…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 18, 2015
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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
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 16, 2015
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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
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 15, 2014
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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
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- Irwin Arieff
- • September 8, 2014
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When we talk about gun violence, the focus is usually on the fatalities. There can be so much to discuss after someone is shot dead. But what about the wounded, who remain present in our lives and in our…
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 15, 2014
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Until recently, José Ramos-Horta led the United Nations’ peace-building mission in Guinea-Bissau, stepping in a year and a half ago as the country reeled from a coup in 2012 and the UN’s former chief there, Joseph Mutaboba, quit his job…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Peace and Security
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 16, 2014
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Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, has appointed at least a dozen new people to high-level positions — including five women — primarily in Africa in the last few months, while the organization also loses some executives. Three new…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 29, 2014
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José Ramos-Horta, the United Nations special envoy for Guinea-Bissau in West Africa since January 2013 and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is leaving his post, he confirmed. Ramos-Horta, 64, will become chairman and chief executive of UBrainTV, an Internet…
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 2, 2013
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José Ramos-Horta has been appointed the new United Nations envoy to Guinea-Bissau. The former Timorese president and Nobel Peace Prize winner is replacing Joseph Mutaboba, a diplomat from Rwanda, as the special representative and chief of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding…
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 17, 2012
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Guinea-Bissau’s woes never end. Now the United Nations, which has a peace-building support mission in the capital, Bissau, might need to restart its work there since the head of the office has left. Joseph Mutaboba, a 63-year-old Rwandan diplomat…
- Categories: Africa
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