Recent articles from
the Global Observatory
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The two can together contribute, potentially, to significant positive change in how the UN and World Bank approach, manage, innovate, and resource their peacebuilding work.
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Nearly two years after the resolutions, questions remain as to whether discussions on sustaining peace are reaching beyond UN headquarters, and above all, how this new…
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Observers have come to the conclusion that, in many ways, UN peacekeeping has lost its compass and faces an existential crisis. What is peacekeeping today?
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Winnie Mandela will be remembered as a person of great courage who worked for a greater cause throughout a very difficult life.
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Despite the concerns of critics, it is now up to the EU member states to grasp the opportunity and show the political will to engage in true strategic common cooperation on defense.
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In Julius Maada Bio's favor is the pragmatism that he has thus far demonstrated, though there should still be no doubt…
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To assess the prospects and risks of inter-Korean rapprochement, one needs to explain, first of all, why North Korean leaders—after scornfully rebuffing Moon Jae-in’s earlier efforts to engage Pyongyang—have switched to a more…
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A key question at this stage is how the gaps in the peacebuilding paradigm can best be addressed to foster greater ownership and effective implementation of the emerging concept of “sustaining peace.”
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Danilo Türk and Sundeep Waslekar explain the complexities of…
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As the UN aims to more efficiently promote peace, how prepared is it to actually work with the nonviolent grassroots movements that have proven to be peacebuilding’s…
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