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Renewable Energy and the United Nations: A Green Spark for Peace in South Sudan
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY South Sudan’s future – and relief from its cycle of conflict – is linked to its reliance on fossil fuels, with limited but possible options for charting a new course. The world’s...
Prioritizing and Sequencing Security Council Mandates: The Case of UNITAMS
In June 2021, the UN Security Council is expected to renew the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) for the first time. This comes at a pivotal...
Prioritization and Sequencing of Security Council Mandates: The Case of UNMISS
This report was co-published with the International Peace Institute (IPI) On February 10, 2021, IPI, the Stimson Center, and Security Council Report organized a virtual workshop to discuss the...
Applying the HIPPO Recommendations to Darfur: Toward Strategic, Prioritized, and Sequenced Mandates
Introduction In advance of the expected renewal of the mandate of the United Nations– African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) in June 2017, the International Peace Institute (IPI), the...
Revising the UN Peacekeeping Mandate in South Sudan: Maintaining Focus on the Protection of Civilians
By Lisa Sharland and Aditi Gorur Executive Summary Civil war has raged in South Sudan for two years. Horrific atrocities continue to be committed against the civilian population by both primary...
Establishing safety and security at protection of civilians sites: lessons from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan
Introduction In December 2013, a civil war broke out in the new nation of South Sudan. As the fighting erupted in the nation’s capital and spread through the country, tens of thousands of civilians...
"Will They Protect Us for the Next 10 Years?” Challenges Faced by the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan
In advance of new recommendations anticipated to be released today by the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the future of the U.N. peacekeeping operation in South Sudan (UNMISS), a new...
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Making UN-safe Areas Safer: From Srebrenica to South Sudan
By Sarah Bosha: In 1995, during the Bosnian war, Serbian forces overran a ‘safe area’ in Srebrenica, resulting in the death of 6,000 Muslim men and boys. Then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
Perceptions of Security Among Internally Displaced Persons in Juba, South Sudan
Many Fear Violence in South Sudan as Nearly 100,000 Seek Shelter at UN Focus Group Findings Released on Eve of Major Peacekeeping Summit For Immediate Release September 25, 2014 Contact: Jim Baird,...
Perceptions of Security in Aweil North County, South Sudan
The recent crisis in South Sudan highlights the importance of research on how civilians can and should be protected from deliberate violence. In December 2013, fighting broke out across South Sudan...
How the U.N. should handle South Sudan
By Alison Giffen Tens of thousands of people in fear for their lives are sheltering inside six United Nations bases in the world's youngest country, South Sudan. They have fled to these "safe havens"...
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Measuring Success In The Sudans
July 09, 2012 Today marks the one-year anniversary of South Sudan's independence from Sudan. To measure what has been achieved, the baseline for progress should reach at least as far back as January...