Till Blume serves on the staff of the German Federal Foreign Office.
With a growing number of UN staff working on a widening array of tasks in environments that are ever more challenging and complex, the need for effective and efficient management of peace operations is evident. Yet since 2000, when the UN started introducing reforms to strengthen its capacity to manage and sustain peacekeeping operations, few […]
Read moreThe fourth UN peacebuilding architecture review (PBAR) takes place this…
As we enter 2025 at a tumultuous time, it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture, and of what is required from all of us to create a world…
In December 2022, the UN Security Council adopted the landmark Resolution 2664, creating a cross-cutting humanitarian carve-out for asset freezes under all UN sanctions regimes. Earlier this month, the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2761, extending the application of the carve-out to the 1267 ISIL/al-Qaida counterterrorism regime indefinitely—a resolution that is just as significant. The post An Indefinite Humanitarian Carve-out for the ISIL/al-Qaida UN Sanctions Regime: What it Means and What Comes Next appeared first on IPI Global…
Based on interviews with UN delegates and independent experts, as well as the analysis of voting patterns and UN meeting records, the authors' new study examines the G77’s internal decision-making processes and how these shape the…
In June, Kenyan police began deploying to Haiti as part of a Multinational Security…
In this interview with Albert Trithart, Pascal Kambale, a Congolese…
This summer, the UN Securi…
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