UN peace-building
- Opinion by Alan Doss
- • October 28, 2021
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The Taliban’s dramatic takeover of Afghanistan in August sparked a predictable outpouring of angst and argument as to why it happened despite the massive, two-decade effort to prevent that result. Much of the commentary focused on the supposed failures…
- Categories: Asia, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Opinion by Sophie Huvé and Rebecca Brubaker
- • July 13, 2021
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Since 2008, the United Nations Security Council has been integrating part of the women, peace and security agenda into its sanctions regimes — albeit inconsistently and with mixed results. So far, this practice has mostly focused on protecting women…
- Categories: Gender Violence, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Opinion by Graciana del Castillo
- • December 11, 2018
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Another year of Secretary-General António Guterres’s reform of the peace and security pillar of the United Nations is ending without fully addressing a main obstacle to peacebuilding in conflict-torn countries under UN intervention: sustainable economic recovery. The key question facing…
- Categories: Development, OPINIONS, Secretary-General
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- Helmut Volger
- • April 19, 2015
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The United Nations is now discussing in a broad consultation process the sustainable development goals: a new universal set of ambitions for economic and social development, made up of targets and indicators that all countries are expected to use…
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