Delphine Mechoulan joined IPI in March 2016 as a Policy Analyst. She works on United Nations peacekeeping and peace operations, mediation, prevention, and governance and sustainable development, with IPI’s Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations.
Prior to this, Delphine worked as a Mission Planning Officer in the Office of the Chief of Staff of MINUSMA in Bamako, Mali. She has also conducted policy analysis and research assignments with the International Crisis Group, the University of Los Andes, and Swisspeace; and did project monitoring at Crisis Action and Independent Diplomat, focusing on the Middle East and Africa.
Delphine has a Master’s degree in international relations from Sciences Po Paris, a Bachelor’s degree in social sciences from the University of Montreal and spent a year at Uppsala University’s Peace and Conflict department. She is bilingual in French and English, as well as fluent in Spanish.
Selected Publications
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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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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IPI parle aussi français!Afin d’atteindre le plus grand nombre de nos amis et partenaires francophones, IPI développe sa page internet avec le contenu de certaines de ses publications, réunions et conférences en français.Domaines de recherche: La réforme des opérations de paix La pérennisation de la paix Médiation La prévention de l’extrémisme violent Formations: Leadership et […]
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Under the new framework of sustaining peace, adopted in identical General Assembly and Security Council Resolutions (70/262 and 2282 respectively), prevention is central, particularly when it is conceived as a function of sustainable development and inclusive governance. However, under existing dominant paradigms, prevention continues to be defined negatively, largely by its symbiotic relationship to conflict. […]
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IPI has been at the forefront of making peace operations more reliable and effective for over 40 years. From the training of UN peacekeeping troops in the 1970s, to the current work on multidimensional peace operations, IPI aims to deepen the understanding of peace operations around the world and to develop policy ideas to improve […]
Read more With the UN involved in peace efforts from Africa and Latin America to the Middle East, the mediation project has continued to extract and broadly disseminate lessons for ongoing and future UN efforts. IPI has published papers on lessons learned from UN-led mediations, most recently on the Middle East, namely Syria, Yemen and Libya, as […]
Read more For over 40 years, IPI has been at the forefront of making peace operations (peacekeeping and special political missions) more reliable and effective. Our work began with the training of UN peacekeeping troops in the 1970s and has evolved to today’s research and convening work designed to help policy makers around the world deepen the […]
Read more In the course of the last decade, efforts to solve the problem of violent extremism have consisted primarily of a series of security measures largely inspired by strategies used to fight terrorism. Experience has however shown that such strategies are inadequate and at times fuel further extremism. This experience has led international organizations and states […]
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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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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 […]
Read moreNearly two years after the resolutions, questions remain as to whether discussions on sustaining peace are reaching beyond UN headquarters, and above all, how this new…
In Julius Maada Bio's favor is the pragmatism that he has thus far demonstrated, though there should still be no doubt…
To assess the prospects and risks of inter-Korean rapprochement, one needs to explain, first of all, why North Korean leaders—after scornfully rebuffing Moon Jae-in’s earlier efforts to engage Pyongyang—have switched to a more…
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