Charles T. Call is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University. He is the editor with Vanessa Wyeth of Building States to Build Peace (Lynne Rienner 2008).
While the United Nations has extensive experience in helping to mediate the end to civil wars and implement peace agreements, its experience with non-civil-war transition crises is comparatively limited. This study examines the UN experience in five cases of unconstitutional changes in government between 2008-2011: Kenya, Mauritania, Guinea, Madagascar, and Kyrgyzstan.The study examines some of […]
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How can legitimate and sustainable states best be established in the aftermath of civil wars? What role should international actors play in supporting these vital processes? Addressing these questions, this IPI volume explores the core challenges involved in institutionalizing postconflict states.
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Growing recognition of the possibility of success, as well as of the cost of failure, has spurred a range of efforts to reform the practice of international peacebuilding, including the creation in 2005 of a new UN Peacebuilding Commission and its related mechanisms, a Secretariat Peacebuilding Support Office and a Peacebuilding Fund.However, both experience and […]
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The report is an edited version of a background paper written by Dr. Call for an IPA [now IPI] meeting held in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on September 23, 2002, examining challenges in police reform.
Read moreMember states still agree on the need to counter terrorism in all its forms and manifestations with the sort of reinvigorated, networked multilateralism the…
The end of Operation Barkhane will leave MINUSMA with a heavier burden in countering terrorism and violent extremism in…
Experience from MINUSMA has shown that UN peace operations and…
The UN and AU are rapidly approaching a crossroads on how to collectively…
Civil society organizations (CSOs) are often more knowledgeable, experienced, and trusted by local communities than governments, and their…
Rehema Zaid, an activist in Kenya, discusses the experiences of local actors working on gender and preventing and countering…
In counterterrorism and conflict-affected contexts, criminal domestic laws have continued to prevail over international…
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