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Author Namie Di Razza

Namie Di Razza, Senior Fellow and Head of Protection of Civilians

Namie Di Razza joined IPI as a post-doctoral fellow in October 2016. She works on UN peace operations and protection of civilians with IPI’s Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations. Prior to...
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Namie Di Razza joined IPI as a post-doctoral fellow in October 2016. She works on UN peace operations and protection of civilians with IPI’s Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations.

Prior to joining IPI, Namie worked for two UN peacekeeping missions. In 2016, she worked in Bangui as an Information Analyst for the Joint Mission Analysis Center of MINUSCA. From 2012 to 2013, she served with MONUSCO as a Civil Affairs Officer in Goma, where she worked on the implementation of protection of civilians activities. She was also a consultant on protection of civilians for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in 2016-2017, and for the French Ministry of Defense in 2015

Prior to her experience with the UN, Namie worked on protection issues with OXFAM and local human rights NGOs in France.

Namie holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris. Her doctoral thesis on “Protection of Civilians by UN Peacekeeping Operations” focused on the case of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She also has two Master’s degrees, in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris, and in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from the University of Paris II.

Selected Publications

  • “UN Peacekeeping and the Protection of Civilians in the COVID-19 Era” (The Global Observatory, May 2020)
  • “Integrating Human Rights into the Operational Readiness of UN Peacekeepers” (New York: International Peace Institute, April 2020) (with Jake Sherman)
  • “Twenty Years On, Time for an Accountability System for the Protection of Civilians” (The Global Observatory, September 2019)
  • “Pursuing Coordination and Integration for the Protection of Civilians” (New York: International Peace Institute, February 2019) (with Alice Debarre)
  • “Mission in Transition: Planning for the End of UN Peacekeeping in Haiti” (New York: International Peace Institute, December 2018)
  • “Protecting Civilians in the Context of Violent Extremism: The Dilemmas of UN Peacekeeping in Mali” (New York: International Peace Institute, October 2018)
  • “Making Peace Operations About People: A Needed Shift for the Protection of Civilians” (The Global Observatory, June 2018)
  • “Reframing the Protection of Civilians Paradigm for UN Peace Operations” (New York: International Peace Institute, November 2017)
  • “People before Process: Humanizing the HR System for UN Peace Operations” (New York: International Peace Institute, October 2017)
  • “How Can the UN Curb CAR’s Spiral of Violence and Ethnic Cleansing?” (The Global Observatory, August 2017)
  • “France’s CAR Departure Creates Uphill Battle for UN” (The Global Observatory, November 2016)
  • Policy Papers 12-23-2020by Namie Di Razza

    Mental Health in UN Peace Operations: Addressing Stress, Trauma, and PTSD among Field Personnel

    The challenging environments where many contemporary UN peace operations are deployed can take a toll on the mental health of both uniformed and civilian personnel. This has led to increased attention to questions around mental health in peace operations, and in 2018, the UN made mental health and well-being a system-wide priority. Yet two years […]

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    Peacekeeping
  • Policy Papers 04-29-2020by Namie Di Razza and Jake Sherman

    Integrating Human Rights into the Operational Readiness of UN Peacekeepers

    The effectiveness of UN peace operations depends on the “operational readiness” of their personnel, which refers to the knowledge, expertise, training, equipment, and mindset needed to carry out mandated tasks. While the need to improve the operational readiness of peacekeepers has been increasingly recognized over the past few years, the concept of “human rights readiness”—the […]

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    Human Rights, Peacekeeping
  • Issue Briefs 02-28-2019by Alice Debarre and Namie Di Razza

    Pursuing Coordination and Integration for the Protection of Civilians

    In recent years, the UN and its member states have promoted comprehensive approaches and integrated structures and processes to improve coherence and consistency between political peacekeeping, humanitarian, human rights, and development efforts undertaken by the UN and its partners. For POC specifically, coordination between the military, police, and civilian components of peace operations; between peace […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Protection of Civilians
  • Policy Papers 12-26-2018by Namie Di Razza

    Mission in Transition: Planning for the End of UN Peacekeeping in Haiti

    The process of reconfiguring, closing, and handing over responsibilities to a UN country team or host-state institutions is a crucial—and challenging—part of the life cycle of a UN peacekeeping mission. Transitions have been a central feature of UN peacekeeping in Haiti, in particular, which has gone through numerous transitions since the 1990s. This paper focuses […]

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    Peace Operations Transitions
  • Policy Papers 10-26-2018by Namie Di Razza

    Protecting Civilians in the Context of Violent Extremism: The Dilemmas of UN Peacekeeping in Mali

    In the non-permissive environments where they are often deployed, UN peace operations need to be increasingly creative to implement their mandate to protect civilians. They face particularly acute challenges in contexts marked by violent extremism, such as Mali, where attacks by terrorist groups have greatly constrained the capacity of peacekeepers to protect local populations.This paper […]

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    Protection of Civilians
  • Issue Briefs 11-29-2017by Namie Di Razza

    Reframing the Protection of Civilians Paradigm for UN Peace Operations

    Since the late 1990s, POC has continuously gained prominence, both as a concept and in practice, and has become the mandated priority for most UN peacekeeping operations. However, while POC has become a centerpiece of peacekeeping for many stakeholders, it has also become diluted as a consensual label used to justify diverse actions and approaches.This […]

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    Peacekeeping, Protection of Civilians
  • Policy Papers 10-03-2017by Namie Di Razza

    People before Process: Humanizing the HR System for UN Peace Operations

    As the UN has grown in terms of size, role, and mandate, restructuring its human resources (HR) system has become a pressing necessity. Staffing missions operating in conflict zones and managing and retaining people in hardship duty stations have proven difficult, leading to multiple attempts at organizational reform. However, past reforms have had limited, counterproductive, […]

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    Peacekeeping

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