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05 Apr 2011
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Afghanistan
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Enmity into Amity: How Peace Breaks Out

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Council on Foreign Relations, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
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Author: Charles A. Kupchan, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow

April 2011

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01 Mar 2010
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World
Exposed: The Human Rights of the Poor in a Changing Global Climate

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Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
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This paper was commissioned in order to advise Independent Expert on extreme poverty and human rights on impacts of global climate change on her mandate. It seeks to identify the particular effects of climate change on the human rights of people living in poverty and extreme poverty, as well as the ways in which internationally-recognized human rights standards may inform both domestic and international responses.
30 Jun 2009
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Sierra Leone
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Does the UN Peacebuilding Commission change the mode of peacebuilding in Africa?

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Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
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SEVERINE M. RUGUMAMU

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In December 2005, the United Nations created a high-profile Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) to serve as a dedicated institutional mechanism to fill the gap in the international architecture for post-conflict response. As such the PBC was mandated to link the political, security and economic functions of the United Nations in conflict and post-conflict situations. This paper analyzes the PBC's own integrated strategies for peace-building in Sierra Leone and Burundi, through cumulative performance reports and views of practitioners.

01 Mar 2009
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World
The Future of Peacekeeping Operations: Fighting Political Fatigue and Overstretch

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Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
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This paper argues that international peacekeeping has been weakened by a lack of trust among governments and institutions. This lack of trust inhibits missions from developing effective political strategies in cases like Afghanistan and DRC - and cases including Darfur and Somalia.

If the international community is to manage weak and failing states during the financial downturn, it must restore trust in peace operations. The alternative may be a breakdown in operations and institutions that would do lasting damage to international cooperation.
01 Nov 2007
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The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping (2): Reforming DPKO

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Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
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The current increase in UN peacekeeping operations has strained the institutional capacities of the UN Secretariat. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's reform, which adds to the Department of Peacekeeping Operation a new Department of Field Support, is only the last in a series of changes of the UN peacekeeping architecture aiming to balance unity of command and division of labor.
01 Nov 2007
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Reconciliation and Development

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Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
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Reconciliation has become an important part of postconfl ict peacebuilding rhetoric and practice in recent years. As nearly all confl icts today are intrastate, former enemies, perpetrators and victims, must continue living side by side after the war. Yet, attitudes and behaviors do not change at the moment of a declaration of peace. Since coexistence is necessary, the need for reconciliation is profound.

The aim of this background study is to give a shared point of departure for discussion on the critical issues of reconciliation and development after war. Reconciliation is defi ned
01 Nov 2007
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The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping (1): Hybrid Missions

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Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
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The planned UN-AU hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur (UNAMID) will be the largest UN peacekeeping operation ever. Whereas UNAMID's success will largely depend on the political circumstances on the ground, its evolution also demonstrates how the UN tries to muster its limited resources in response to an increasing need for peace operations.
01 Nov 2007
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Fighting Drugs and Building Peace: Towards Policy Coherence Between Counter-Narcotics and Peace Building

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Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
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Producing and trading cocaine, heroin and other illegal narcotics is not only a highly globalized business. It is also a policy challenge to which the international community has historically responded in a rather swift and determined manner. Under the roof of the United Nations, a regulatory regime was established which aims at the elimination of the production, trade, and consumption of outlawed narcotics. In addition, considerable resources are dedicated to a myriad of counter-narcotics programs on the ground. But despite all these efforts every time when the United
01 Nov 2007
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Gender Justice and Reconciliation

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Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
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This paper examines how women's experiences of confl ict and transition differ to that of men because of inherent gendered power relations and that, as a result, women's experiences of violence and needs for justice have until recent times largely been ignored. It speaks to gender justice as the protection of human rights based on gender equality and explores two such tenets: the acknowledgement of and seeking justice for women's experiences of sexual violence in conflict situations; and the securing of increased representation of women in policy- and decision-making
10 Oct 2005
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Afghanistan
Lessons from gender-focused international aid in post-conflict Afghanistan ... learned?

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Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
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Executive Summary

Twenty-three years of confl ict - Soviet occupation, civil war, the Taliban, and fi nally the US-led bombing campaign - have taken a toll on women in Afghanistan. Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghan women have been the focus of much international attention and the cornerstone of the largest gender-focused aid intervention. Yet today, many people in Afghanistan believe that there is less funding for women and for gender programs than there was three years ago "because we think we have solved the problem," a senior gender advisor stated.