In 2013, the world’s newest nation—the Republic of South Sudan—descended into civil war. External actors moved quickly to convene peace talks under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), leading to a comprehensive peace deal in August 2015. But the agreement unraveled just a year later, before it could be implemented, and the […]
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In this first interview since being appointed president and CEO of the International Peace Institute (IPI) in March 2020,…
Stability has been the main achievement of the UN presence in Cyprus. However, the various stakeholders of the…
The time is ripe for innovative thinking and pragmatic…
As the international community grapples with how to approach the crisis in Afghanistan, many are questioning the role that international sanctions should play in seeking to encourage or pressure…
The WPS agenda is largely failing to account for…
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If the WPS agenda does not recognize the relationship between participation and protection it will continue to perpetuate the binary between the participation of women as leaders with agency and the protection…
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