A UN Security Council delegation visits the Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 6, 2013. UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti.[/caption] The Security Council issued 1,557 demands to conflict parties in civil wars in the 15 years following the end of the Cold War, through its resolutions. Based on a statistical analysis of IPI’s Security Council Compliance Database, […]
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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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While the political and security crisis that erupted in Mali in 2012 seems to evolve daily, the underlying factors that threaten peace and human security in the Sahel region are not new. This issue brief analyzes the current crisis in Mali within the context of the Sahel-Sahara region as a whole.
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This meeting note is based on a roundtable discussion held at IPI on October 9, 2012, which examined both the short-term protection of migrants in times of crisis, and the long-term consequences when migrants are forced to return home due to a conflict or a natural disaster.
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The upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, presents an opportunity for member states to strengthen international environmental governance. But what key reforms are within reach?
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By 2050, 25 million to 1 billion people are expected to be migrating due to environmental factors. Though examining linkages between environmental conditions and migration have been on the international agenda at least since 1992, only in recent years have they become better understood. It is clear today that the environment and environmental change impact […]
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A great deal has been made of “cyber warfare,” and the reaction to it. Ranging from alarmist to overly optimistic, this has spurred the usual talk of new institutions and organizations to deal with the threat.
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This new IPI report examines trends in how the Security Council has engaged with civil wars since 1989 and the gradual evolution of the Council’s civil-war response strategies, including where and when it chose to engage.
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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