Last week, rights groups expressed concern about the increase in violence between ethnic militias in Mali that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds. Since the beginning of the crisis in central Mali…

Earlier this month, Libyan factions convened in Palermo, Italy, to discuss the country’s future alongside regional and international representatives. The conference brought two of the main rival claim…

Today is the International Day of Peace, sometimes unofficially known as World Peace Day. The United Nations General Assembly declared it a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both withi…

The Central African Republic (CAR) received renewed international attention last month when on July 30 three Russian journalists were assassinated in mysterious circumstances in a zone nominally secur…

The summer of 2018 will be the first real test for the still nascent G5 Sahel Joint Force (Force conjointe du G5 Sahel or FC-G5S). On June 29, exactly a month before Mali's presidential election, the …

Secretary-General António Guterres launched the Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative on March 28 with the aim of rethinking aspects of United Nations peacekeeping. A4P is designed around five “Ps”…

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched the “Action for Peacekeeping” (A4P) initiative during the open debate on peacekeeping reform on March 28, 2018, at which he called for a “quantum leap in co…

En juillet 2017, la Conférence des chefs d’État et de gouvernement de l’Union africaine (UA) a établi le Réseau des médiatrices africaines, couramment appelé FemWise-Africa, afin de renforcer le rôle …

Almost a year after hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims were forced to flee their home country into Bangladesh, the challenges of providing assistance to refugees and of addressing violations in…

Rarely do reports on United Nations peacekeeping generate as much press and interest as the one released this past month nicknamed the “Cruz report” after the Brazilian general who led the high-level …