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WORLDVIEWS

The Syrian War and the Refugee Crisis: Spawning the Rise of the Far Right

December 21, 2016 
by Irwin Arieff
The butterfly effect teaches us that seemingly insignificant actions can have enormous future consequences. A tiny pair of fluttering wings can disturb the air in a way that helps trigger a hurricane halfway around the world. Witness Syria, where the Arab Spring made its debut in 2011 in the form of a tame wave …

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A Task for the Next UN Secretary-General: Review the Special Envoy System

February 23, 2016 
by Barbara Crossette
When a tough independent report sharply criticized the United Nations in December for its bungled attempts to cover up, or at least ignore, the sexual abuse of children by peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic in recent years, it named among the people responsible for letting the children down Leila Zerrougui, Secretary-General Ban …

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WORLDVIEWS

From Brahimi to Ramos-Horta, a 15-Year Peacekeeping Quest

June 23, 2015 
by Peter Nadin
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 of the mid-90s had subsided and a new era of peacekeeping activism had begun. Missions were …

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Lakhdar Brahimi: When Will the US Learn From Its Mistakes in the Middle East?

September 26, 2014 
by Barbara Crossette
More than two decades of American naivety or misunderstanding of Arab and other regional societies, astonishingly poor planning and post-conflict miscalculations that undercut claims of success have left a deep mistrust and lack of confidence in the United States in the Middle East, in the view of the United Nations’ most experienced and savvy …

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GOINGS-ON

Another Veteran UN Diplomat, Staffan de Mistura, Is Named Syrian Envoy

July 10, 2014 
by PassBlue
Staffan de Mistura is the new United Nations special envoy for Syria, replacing Lakhdar Brahimi, a veteran Algerian diplomat who resigned in May after nearly two years of rising frustration trying to broker a peace deal between the Syrian government and the main opposition group in the country. Despite formal negotiations that were convened by …

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Syrian Women Win Active Role in Geneva Peace Conference

January 22, 2014 
by Maurizio Guerrero  and  Dulcie Leimbach
Women Lead to Peace summit, Montreux 2014
The United Nations-led peace talks in Switzerland to begin the laborious discussions to end the war in Syria have officially started, but Syrian women activists who have been demanding to sit at the crucial peace-talks table on Jan. 24 in Geneva did not know until the last minute whether any women would be involved. …

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At Geneva II Talks in January, It Is Not Enough to ‘Add Women and Stir’

December 26, 2013 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Lakhdar Brahimi
The campaign to ensure women’s equal participation at the peace talks on Syria in January has become more urgent, as certain parties recognize that women are vital in rebuilding and reconciling Syrian society. Yet only a few weeks before the talks are scheduled to start, no commitment has been made as to whether women …

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Syrian Women’s Groups Push for Equal Role at Geneva II Talks

December 5, 2013 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Recognizing that women in the Middle East and North Africa must play an active role in their countries’ political processes, especially amid the regional backdrop of upheavals and conflicts, the Netherlands government is providing money for a new program, Women on the Frontline, to help women-run initiatives organize themselves better to assert their rights …

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The Syrian War, Picked Apart by a Diplomat Who Knows

November 20, 2012 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Jean-Marie Gguehenno of Columbia University
The new creation of a national Syrian coalition to make the opposition groups more coherent could propel a much-needed breakthrough in the country’s 20-month civil war, Jean-Marie Guéhenno a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, told an audience there on Nov. 13. It has been a costly affair humanitarian-wise: close to …

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