By many accounts, the most prominent international peacebuilding model is increasingly becoming unviable. Developed in the 1990s and 2000s, the “liberal peacebuilding” model (as it’s commonly called)...
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The MENA Region Is Headed for More Insecurity Due to Climate Change. Can This Be Mitigated?
January 8, 2024 by Kyungmee Kim and Tània Ferré Garcia* The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, home to widely diverse cultures and a population of about 500 million, is highly exposed to the...
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Safeguarding Humanitarian Action in UN Sanctions and Counterterrorism Regimes: The Impact and Implementation of Resolution 2664
Humanitarian organizations have repeatedly called attention to the challenges that counterterrorism resolutions and UN sanctions regimes can pose to humanitarian action. In response, the council has...
One Year On: Where Do We Stand on the Milestone Humanitarian “Carve-out” in UN Sanctions Regimes?
One year ago, the United Nations (UN) Security Council adopted Resolution 2664, a landmark decision which provided for a cross-cutting humanitarian carve-out in all current and future UN sanctions...
The tumultuous birth of the Loss and Damage Fund: a game changer, or more of the same from global climate negotiators?
By Jimena Leiva Roesch and Michael Franczak In the world of global climate negotiations, a critical one took place on Friday, October 20th. As the fourth session of the Loss and Damage Transitional...
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Health and Peace: The Future of International Emergency Health Responses during Violent Conflict
Recent health emergencies such as the 2018–2020 Ebola crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in conjunction with the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrate the...
Partnership Peacekeeping Works: What Does this Mean in a Divided World?
by Corinne Bara and Maurice P. Schumann In a 2015 report, then-Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remarked that the United Nations (UN) had “entered an era of partnership peacekeeping.” And, indeed, in...
You Can’t Ignore the Voices of Afghan Women: Interview with Heather Barr
by Phoebe Donnelly In the two years since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the regime has imposed the world’s most repressive system of gender discrimination, forcing women and girls out of...
A New Agenda for Peace and the Climate Emergency
By Cedric de Coning, Gracsious Maviza and Kheira Tarif Perhaps more than any other world leader, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres has consistently integrated climate change into...
The Role of African Multilateralism in the New Agenda for Peace
By Bitania Tadesse In recent years, Africa has witnessed multiple challenges due in part to the deteriorating state of governance, democratic backsliding, spread of terrorism, protracted and emerging...
MINUSMA and Protection of Civilians: Implications for Future Peacekeeping Missions
The trajectory of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) over the last decade offers important considerations for the future of peacekeeping when it comes to the protection of...
The MINUSMA Liquidation Process Unpacked
by Eugene Chen Diplomats and United Nations (UN) Secretariat officials were caught off guard when, at the end of the June 16 Security Council meeting, the Malian authorities requested that the UN...
MINUSMA’s Termination and the Future of Protection in Mali
July 21, 2023 by Josh Jorgensen Now that the United Nations (UN) Security Council has voted to end MINUSMA's mandate and withdraw the mission within six months, civilians in Mali are at even greater...
MINUSMA and protection of civilians: Implications for future peacekeeping missions
By Lisa Sharland The United Nations (UN) Security Council’s decision in June to end the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) after a decade deployed in the country followed a request from the...
As Peacekeeping Exits Mali, the Transition Is a New Opportunity for the UN
by Adam Day One week ago, the United Nations Security Council decided to terminate the mandate of the UN peace operation in Mali (MINUSMA), immediately ending the bulk of the mission’s core mandated...
Prioritization and sequencing of Security Council mandates: the case of MINUSMA
Evaluating the mandate and political strategy for the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali ahead of the late June 2023 mandate renewal On May 18, 2023, the International Peace Institute (IPI), the Stimson...
Should the security council engage with implications of climate change? Let’s look at the scientific evidence
By Halvard Buhaug, Cedric de Coning, and Nina von Uexkull Climate change is a controversial topic at the United Nations (UN) Security Council. The Council has adopted over 70 resolutions and...
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How Do Ad-Hoc Security Initiatives Fit in Africa’s Evolving Security Landscape?
Over the last two decades, places like the Sahel, Lake Chad Basin, Somalia, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Northern Mozambique have experienced a rise (and in some cases, a...
Pakistan’s Flood Problem Is Supercharged by Climate Change. The Recovery Process Will Need to Go Beyond Damage Control
The savage floods of July and August 2022 devastated Pakistan, putting over one-third of the country under water and driving millions from their homes during a monsoon season described as "on...
Why Congo’s M23 Crisis Lingers On
by Judith Verweijen and Christoph Vogel In October 2021, the March 23 movement (M23) rebooted its insurgent campaign in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country that for 30...