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Author Delphine Mechoulan

Delphine Mechoulan

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  • Policy Papers 12-10-2020by Arthur Boutellis, Delphine Mechoulan, and Marie-Joëlle Zahar

    Parallel Tracks or Connected Pieces?: UN Peace Operations, Local Mediation, and Peace Processes

    Track-1 mediation processes have increasingly struggled to deliver comprehensive peace agreements that address fragmented conflict dynamics and include local communities’ needs. As a result, local mediation has increasingly been a focus for the UN, including for UN peace operations. UN peace operations can play an important role in supporting local mediation initiatives, whether these initiatives […]

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    Mediation, Peacekeeping
  • Policy Papers 02-26-2018by Youssef Mahmoud, Lesley Connolly, and Delphine Mechoulan, eds.

    Sustaining Peace in Practice: Building on What Works

    Prevention is generally viewed as a crisis management tool to address the destructive dynamics of conflict. The sustaining peace agenda challenges this traditional understanding of preventive action by shifting the starting point of analysis to what is still working in society—the positive aspects of resilience—and building on these.The goal of this volume is to build […]

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    Sustaining Peace
  • Policy Papers 11-06-2017by Marie-Joëlle Zahar and Delphine Mechoulan

    Peace by Pieces? Local Mediation and Sustainable Peace in the Central African Republic

    The Central African Republic (CAR) has earned an undesirable reputation as one of the most troubled spots on earth. Many international and regional mediation efforts have attempted to resolve the conflict in CAR. Less discussed, however, are a multiplicity of local mediation efforts aiming to bring about tangible immediate change.This report focuses on these local […]

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    Mediation, Peace Processes, Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Meeting Notes 08-17-2017by Delphine Mechoulan and Marie-Joëlle Zahar

    Investing in Peace and the Prevention of Violence in the Sahel-Sahara: Second Regional Conversations

    Violent extremism expresses itself in different ways, depending on the context, and can manifest itself at every level and across every dimension of societies. In order to be innovative and context-specific, therefore, efforts to prevent violent extremism and invest in peace need to be grounded in joint and collaborative action between communities and local, national, […]

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    Violent Extremism
  • Issue Briefs 05-30-2017by Youssef Mahmoud and Delphine Mechoulan

    UN Regional Political Offices and Prevention for Sustaining Peace

    Since 2002, the United Nations has created three regional political offices—in West Africa, Central Africa, and Central Asia—to harmonize efforts to identify cross-border threats and defuse tensions. But while their mandates contain many elements related to prevention and sustaining peace, these offices remain focused on addressing the proximate causes of conflict rather than on reinforcing […]

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    Sustaining Peace
  • Issue Briefs 03-16-2017by Youssef Mahmoud and Delphine Mechoulan

    Peace Operations and Prevention for Sustaining Peace: The Restoration and Extension of State Authority

    As member states continue to discuss what sustaining peace means in practice, it is important to examine how peace operations can be designed and implemented to help build self-sustaining peace rather than just prevent relapse into conflict. In particular, considering most current peace operations are deployed in countries with weak state institutions, we should consider […]

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    Peacekeeping, State-Society Relations, Sustaining Peace
  • Policy Papers 02-27-2017by Renata Segura and Delphine Mechoulan

    Made in Havana: How Colombia and the FARC Decided to End the War

    On November 24, 2016, the government of Colombia and the biggest guerrilla group in the country, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia–Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP), signed a final peace agreement. This accord put an end to the longest armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere and to long and convoluted peace talks.What elements of the process […]

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    Mediation, Peace Processes
  • Issue Briefs 11-10-2016by Delphine Mechoulan, Youssef Mahmoud, Andrea Ó Súilleabháin, and Jimena Leiva Roesch

    The SDGs and Prevention for Sustaining Peace: Exploring the Transformative Potential of the Goal on Gender Equality

    With the adoption of the General Assembly and Security Council resolutions on sustaining peace and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a multilateral policy consensus is emerging around a common vision for peaceful societies. These global frameworks treat prevention as an integral part of effective and participatory governance and view peace as both an enabler […]

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    Sustainable Development, Sustaining Peace, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Meeting Notes 07-28-2016by Arthur Boutellis and Delphine Mechoulan

    Assessing UN Peace Operations One Year after the HIPPO Report

    The 2015 report of the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO) has been seen as an opportunity to make UN peace operations more fit for purpose in the face of new realities on the ground. However, the number and scope of the recommendations contained in the report, and the fact that the UN Secretariat […]

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    Peacekeeping

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    June 17, 2022 by Adrian Gallagher, Blake Lawrinson, Charles T. Hunt

    The UN Security Council does not have the luxury of choosing between normative imperatives associated with preventing…

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    The UN, in its implementation of A4P+, must address the heavily masculine, exclusionary, and militarized structures which often preclude women (and anyone outside of a very…

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    Facing its most difficult period since its inception in April 2013, MINUSMA, and…

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    Amid mounting pressure to…

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    The complex, and not always coordinated, ecosystem of military operations across the Sahel has been aptly labeled a security traffic jam. Why are external forces in the Sahel?…

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