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Author Paul D. Williams

Paul D. Williams, Non-resident Senior Fellow

Paul D. Williams is a Non-resident Senior Fellow working on the “Providing for Peacekeeping” project. Paul is currently an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Security Policy...
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Paul D. Williams is a Non-resident Senior Fellow working on the “Providing for Peacekeeping” project. Paul is currently an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Security Policy Studies program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. He also serves as a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University and has been a visiting scholar at Georgetown University and the University of Queensland. Prior to working in the United States, Paul taught at the universities of Warwick and Birmingham in the United Kingdom.

Selected Books

  • Paul D. Williams, War and Conflict in Africa (Polity, 2011)
  • Joanna Spear and Paul Williams, eds., Security and Development in Global Politics: A Critical Comparison (Georgetown University Press, 2012)
  • Paul D. Williams with Alex J. Bellamy, Understanding Peacekeeping (Polity, 2nd edition, 2010)
  • Paul D. Williams, ed., Security Studies: An Introduction (Routledge, 2nd edition, 2012)
  • David Black and Paul D. Williams, eds., The International Politics of Mass Atrocities: The Case of Darfur (Routledge, 2010)
  • Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams, eds., Peace Operations and Global Order (Routledge, 2004)
  • Paul D. Williams, British Foreign Policy under New Labour, 1997-2005 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005)
  • Issue Briefs 10-30-2019by Paul D. Williams

    Lessons for “Partnership Peacekeeping” from the African Union Mission in Somalia

    Deployed to Mogadishu in March 2007, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) operates through a complicated and extensive system of partnerships. This has been referred to as the “AMISOM model” of “partnership peacekeeping.” While this specific configuration of forces and mechanisms is unlikely to be repeated, AMISOM remains the longest-standing case of a peace […]

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    Peacekeeping
  • Policy Papers 04-11-2018by Paul D. Williams and Thong Nguyen

    Neighborhood Dynamics in UN Peacekeeping Operations, 1990–2017

    The last decade has seen more UN peacekeepers than ever before coming from countries neighboring the host state. This report uses the IPI Peacekeeping Database to explore this increase in neighborhood contributions between 1990 and 2017. While less than 3 percent of all UN peacekeepers came from next-door neighbors in the early 1990s, this number […]

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    Peacekeeping
  • Policy Papers 06-14-2017by Katharina P. Coleman and Paul D. Williams

    Logistics Partnerships in Peace Operations

    Logistics support is both critical to the safety and health of peacekeepers and vital to success at every stage of a peace operation—especially in the high-threat environments where both UN and regional peace operations are increasingly deployed. Contemporary peace operations are based on logistics partnerships, with support provided by a range of actors including states, […]

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    Peacekeeping
  • Policy Papers 02-13-2017by Paul D. Williams

    UN Support to Regional Peace Operations: Lessons from UNSOA

    Authorized in January 2009, the UN Support Office for the African Union Mission in Somalia (UNSOA) was an unprecedented operation. Through UNSOA, the Department of Field Support used the UN’s assessed contributions to directly support a non-UN regional peace operation (AMISOM). Although this significantly enhanced AMISOM’s capabilities and increased its overall effectiveness, UNSOA faced numerous […]

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    Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations
  • Issue Briefs 07-13-2016by Paul D. Williams

    The Battle at El Adde: The Kenya Defence Forces, al-Shabaab, and Unanswered Questions

    In January 2016, Kenya suffered its largest ever military defeat at the battle of El Adde in the Gedo region of Somalia. Yet many of the questions surrounding this attack remain unanswered. On the six-month anniversary of the battle at El Adde, this report provides a preliminary analysis of the battle and some of the […]

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    Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations
  • Policy Papers 05-10-2016by Walter Lotze and Paul D. Williams

    The Surge to Stabilize: Lessons for the UN from the AU’s Experience in Somalia

    In recent years, a growing number of UN peacekeepers have been mandated to carry out “stabilization” tasks. Yet the UN still has no explicit definition of or framework for this concept, and most recent stabilization operations, such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq, occurred under quite different circumstances from UN peacekeeping operations. The AU Mission […]

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    Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations
  • Policy Papers 08-05-2015by Donald C. F. Daniel, Paul D. Williams, and Adam C. Smith

    Deploying Combined Teams: Lessons Learned from Operational Partnerships in UN Peacekeeping

    Only fifteen United Nations’ member states provide more than 60 percent of the 104,000 UN uniformed personnel deployed worldwide. How can a more equitable sharing of the global peacekeeping burden be produced that generates new capabilities for UN operations?Operational partnerships are one potentially useful mechanism to further this agenda. They are partnerships that occur when […]

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    Peacekeeping
  • Policy Papers 02-03-2015by Paul D. Williams and Solomon Dersso

    Saving Strangers and Neighbors: Advancing UN-AU Cooperation on Peace Operations

    The United Nations and African Union now deploy a record number of peacekeepers in Africa. In the past two years, the relationship between the two institutions has deepened, as new AU missions in Mali and the Central African Republic have transitioned into UN peacekeeping operations and ongoing missions in Somali and South Sudan have expanded […]

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    Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations
  • Policy Papers 04-23-2013by Arthur Boutellis and Paul D. Williams

    Peace Operations, the African Union, and the United Nations: Toward More Effective Partnerships

    This paper analyzes the recent history of relations between the UN Security Council and the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) with respect to peace operations.

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    Peacekeeping
  • Policy Papers 08-15-2012by Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams

    Broadening the Base of United Nations Troop- and Police-Contributing Countries

    This report represents the first of a series of publications stemming from the Providing for Peacekeeping project, a partnership with IPI, Griffith University, and the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.The report analyzes the practical steps needed to broaden the base of UN troop- and police-contributing countries. It identifies current trends, summarizes […]

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    Peacekeeping

Recent articles from
the Global Observatory

  • A New Agenda for Peace and the Climate Emergency

    September 25, 2023 by Cedric de Coning, Gracsious Maviza, Kheira Tarif
    The New Agenda for Peace serves as a stark warning that the damage being done now will have significant implications for humanity’s future wellbeing, safety, and stability.
    Analysis, climate change, New Agenda for Peace
  • “A New Agenda for Peace” Interview with UN Director Asif R. Khan

    September 15, 2023 by Jenna Russo

    Asif R. Khan, Director of UNDPPA's Policy and Mediation Division and a lead penholder of the New Agenda for Peace, reflects on the policy brief and next steps ahead of the Summit of the Future.

    Interviews, New Agenda for Peace
  • The Role of African Multilateralism in the New Agenda for Peace

    September 13, 2023 by Bitania Tadesse

    The New Agenda for Peace provides an opening for continental actors to advance priorities at the global level. However, this requires the AU to deliver on…

    Analysis, africa, multilateralism, New Agenda for Peace
  • WPS in the New Agenda for Peace: Seeing Patriarchy but Missing Innovation

    September 11, 2023 by Phoebe Donnelly
    Bold language on transforming patriarchy is not matched with concrete proposals to advance the WPS agenda and gender equality more broadly.
    Analysis, New Agenda for Peace, women peace and security
  • The New Agenda and Peace Operations: Don’t Bet Against the Future

    September 7, 2023 by Arthur Boutellis
    There seems to be a disconnect between the overall diagnosis of the New Agenda for Peace and its prescriptions for peace operations.
    Analysis, New Agenda for Peace, peacekeeping, united nations

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