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- Sophie Huvé and Rebecca Brubaker
- • July 13, 2021
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, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 12, 2021
In times of extreme adversity, hope and light can come from unexpected places. In South Sudan — haunted by a war for independence, followed by a civil war and continued unrest in its short history — people can point…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, Poverty, Women
- Melanne Verveer and Robert Nagel
- • April 8, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Covid-19 poses major challenges for people and governments around the world and for the United Nations. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for a global cease-fire on March 23 in recognition of the pandemic’s potentially devastating effects…
- Categories: Covid-19, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 2, 2018
As peacekeepers sweat and toil and risk their lives in some of the world’s most lethal settings — South Sudan, Mali, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo — it is incumbent on the United Nations and its…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- Kacie Candela
- • December 26, 2017
The South Sudan Council of Churches is an umbrella organization for seven Christian denominations — African Inland Church, Catholic, Episcopal, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Evangelical Presbyterian and Sudan Interior Church — working on peace and reconciliation in South Sudan and based…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
- Julie Vanderperre
- • February 22, 2017
The intense civil conflict in South Sudan that broke out in December 2013 and has brought the world’s youngest nation to the edge of genocide has not subsided, with no solution in sight. Once more, the United Nations Security…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 17, 2016
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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 1, 2014
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
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • October 14, 2011
Hervé Ladsous, a French diplomat who is the new under secretary-general for United Nations peacekeeping operations, said on Thursday that though he had “no predetermined grand vision” for the agency, he would focus on cutting back on the UN’s…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security
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