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    The International Peace Institute (IPI) is an independent, international not-for-profit think tank dedicated to managing risk and building resilience to promote peace, security, and sustainable development. To achieve its purpose, IPI employs a mix of policy research, strategic analysis, publishing, and convening. With staff from more than twenty countries and a broad range of academic fields, IPI has offices facing United Nations headquarters in New York and offices in Vienna and Manama.

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Author Adam C. Smith

Adam C. Smith, Founder, Providing for Peacekeeping

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  • Policy Papers 08-05-2015by Donald C. F. Daniel, Paul D. Williams, and Adam C. Smith

    Deploying Combined Teams: Lessons Learned from Operational Partnerships in UN Peacekeeping

    Only fifteen United Nations’ member states provide more than 60 percent of the 104,000 UN uniformed personnel deployed worldwide. How can a more equitable sharing of the global peacekeeping burden be produced that generates new capabilities for UN operations?Operational partnerships are one potentially useful mechanism to further this agenda. They are partnerships that occur when […]

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    Peacekeeping
  • Policy Papers 07-29-2015by John Karlsrud and Adam C. Smith

    Europe’s Return to UN Peacekeeping in Africa? Lessons from Mali

    In a break from recent tradition, European member states are currently contributing significant military capabilities to a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operation in Africa. Europeans are providing more than 1,000 troops to the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) by staffing a wide range of operations including an intelligence fusion cell, transport and […]

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    Peacekeeping
  • Policy Papers 02-03-2014by Arthur Boutellis and Adam C. Smith

    Engineering Peace: The Critical Role of Engineers in UN Peacekeeping

    Members of the Chinese engineering company of MONUC work on a road rehabiliation project in April 2008 to allow greater access to the Ruzizi One Dam Power Plant, the only source of electricity for the east of the country. UN Photo/Marie Frechon.[/caption] Although engineering may be the least critically analyzed aspect of peacekeeping, it is […]

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    Peacekeeping
  • Policy Papers 06-13-2013by Chris Perry and Adam C. Smith

    Trends in Uniformed Contributions to UN Peacekeeping: A New Dataset, 1991–2012

    Despite the tremendous and continuing efforts associated with UN peacekeeping operations, the full range of available data on uniformed contributions to UN peacekeeping has not been readily available to researchers, limiting the use of quantitative methods on questions related to UN peacekeeping.

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    Peacekeeping
  • Policy Papers 05-08-2013by Adam C. Smith and Arthur Boutellis

    Rethinking Force Generation: Filling Capability Gaps in UN Peacekeeping

    This report analyzes the limitation of the UN system for generating contributions of personnel and equipment for peace operations, otherwise known as force generation.

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    Peacekeeping
  • Books 07-31-2012by Adam C. Smith and Arthur Boutellis, editors

    The Management Handbook for UN Field Missions

    Since 2010, the International Peace Institute has partnered closely with a number of practitioners, researchers, and experts to produce a one-of-a-kind handbook on management for civilian staff in UN peace operations. This resource is aimed at filling a critical gap in the management of the UN’s many field operations around the world.The Management Handbook for […]

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    Peacebuilding, Peacekeeping
  • Policy Papers 01-26-2012by Francesco Mancini and Adam C. Smith, editors

    Partnerships—a New Horizon for Peacekeeping?

    What role do partnerships play in forming a global peacekeeping system that can respond effectively and predictably to today’s security challenges? This special issue of the journal International Peacekeeping addresses the political, strategic, and operational challenges inherent in partnerships and proposes strategies for addressing them.

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    Peacekeeping
  • Meeting Notes 09-20-2010by Adam C. Smith and Vanessa Wyeth, rapporteurs

    Security Council Istanbul Retreat: At the Crossroads of Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding

    This meeting note draws on the discussions held during the informal retreat of the UN Security Council in Istanbul, Turkey on June 25-26, 2010. The retreat was co-organized by the government of Turkey and the International Peace Institute.

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    Peacebuilding, Peacekeeping
  • Comment & Analysis 10-09-2009by Adam C. Smith

    Peacekeeping Reform Continues, But Have We Learned the Right Lessons?

    In UN circles, the Report of the UN Panel on Peace Operations (2000), better known as the Brahimi report, is considered conventional wisdom, if not outright gospel.

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    Peacekeeping
  • Meeting Notes 06-30-2009by Caty Clement and Adam C. Smith, editors

    Managing Complexity: Political and Managerial Challenges in UN Peace Operations

    This publication, drawn from a December 2008 IPI-GCSP (Geneva Centre for Security Policy) conference in New York, outlines the challenge of UN peacekeeping being overmatched by complexity, while offering suggestions for understanding and dealing with complex environments.

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    Developing country status may have made sense when China joined the WTO in 2001. But today, China is the second largest economy in the world and the largest when…

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