Erin McCandless The United Nations (UN) has recently set out its New Agenda for Peace, and Secretary-General António Guterres has underscored the urgency for action: member states must respond to the...
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Alternative Aid Modalities: Community development
Economic sanctions and restrictions on development aid in fragile and conflict-affected states have become an increasingly prominent part of the international toolkit for dealing with regimes that...
An Age of Crises: Prospects for inequality and division, February 2023
Author Roshni Menon Senior Program Officer Inequalities can shape, drive, and amplify crises and at the same time, be the consequence of crises. The double shock of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by...
One Year After Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: The geopolitical struggle is not where you think it is
Roshni Menon, Faiza Shaheen When Russia invaded Ukraine one year ago, there were immediate concerns about the effects on food and energy security, and on geopolitical alignment in other countries...
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Aid strategies in ‘politically estranged’ settings: How donors can stay and deliver in fragile and conflict-affected states - Policy brief (Summary)
Authors Sarah Cliffe. Executive Director Renata Dwan, Senior Consulting Fellow, Chatham House; Senior Fellow, NYU CIC Betty Wainaina, Associate Director, UN/IFIs Leah Zamore. Associate Director,...
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An Age of Crises: Prospects for inequality and division
Author Roshni Menon Senior Program Officer Inequalities can shape, drive, and amplify crises and at the same time, be the consequence of crises. The double shock of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by...
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Alternative Aid Modalities: Community Development
by Scott Guggenheim and Sir Charles Petrie Economic sanctions and restrictions on development aid in fragile and conflict-affected states have become an increasingly prominent part of the...
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Colombia’s Support for Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees: President Petro reaffirms commitment to integration, but continued progress requires more international support
There are over six million Venezuelan migrants and refugees globally, more than 1.8 million living in neighboring Colombia. These individuals have fled a country suffering from years of economic...
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Gulf States and peacebuilding: Key characteristics, dynamics, and opportunities
While the Gulf States have long been generous providers of foreign aid, it is only in recent years that they have publicly committed to playing a major role as peacebuilders. This paper analyzes the...
Strengthening Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding at the UN and IFIs: Key Ideas and Recommendations
All three of the recent UN secretary-general reports on peacebuilding and sustaining peace (2018, 2019, and 2020) take note of the need to enhance collaboration between the UN---not only its...
Coping with COVID-19 and Conflict in Afghanistan
Afghanistan faces many hurdles in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic: a prolonged armed conflict, a lack of social protection systems, limited healthcare capacity, and insufficient preparedness and...
Event Summary: Launch of UN Peacekeeping Missions in Urban Environments: The Legacy of UNMIL
The infrastructure, technology, and resources that a United Nations peacekeeping operation brings can open up new opportunities in key conflict-affected areas of the world. United Nations (UN)...
Tackling the Impunity Gap in Syria: Detainees and Disappearances
This is the first article in a new series the Center on International Cooperation is publishing: Tackling the Impunity Gap in Syria. In this series, we will examine different issues stemming from the...
The Arc of Protection: Toward a New International Refugee Regime
The Arc of Protection Introduction: Toward a New International Refugee Regime S Books is proud to be publishing a draft of a pathbreaking study of the international refugee crisis, along with...
The Liberian Transition and Lessons for Sustaining Peace
Background The importance to sustaining peace of peace operations’ drawdown or “transition” periods is recognized in the twin peacebuilding and sustaining peace resolutions (A/RES/70/262,...
The Politics of Security in Somalia
By Michael Keating and Sagal Abshir Executive summary Starting from a very low base, Somalia is making slow but definite, if reversible, progress towards becoming a capable, peaceful, and fully...
The Secretary-General’s Sustaining Peace Report: The Peacebuilding Fund Gets a Boost
by Paige Arthur The United Nations Secretary-General’s new report on sustaining peace is the long-awaited response to the call to report on the implementation of the General Assembly’s and Security...
Innovative Financing to Sustain Peace: An Explainer
By Riva Kantowitz There is a staggering investment deficit in the prevention of violent conflict. Mercy Corps notes that 10 years ago, 80 percent of humanitarian assistance went to responding to...
An Integrated Approach to Prevention: The Links between Prevention, the 2030 Agenda, and Sustaining Peace
By Sarah Cliffe and David Steven An integrated approach to crisis and conflict prevention requires clarity on what is meant by prevention, and how the concept of prevention fits with the 2030 Agenda,...
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“Their Priority Is Not the People”: Civilian Views on Peace Operations in Africa
THIJS VAN LAER “Their priority is not the people of Somalia,” a Somali woman who had recently fled to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya said about peacekeepers in her home country. “It is the...