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  Policy Papers 03-12-2025by Andrew E. Yaw Tchie and Lauren McGowan

  The United Nations–African Union Partnership and the Protection of Civilians

  The landscape of peace operations in Africa has transformed over the past decade, including a marked increase in African-led peace support operations (PSOs). Since the early 2000s, the African Union (AU) and UN have evolved distinct, albeit parallel, conceptual and operational approaches to the protection of civilians (POC). While the UN views POC in peacekeeping […]

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  Policy Papers 02-24-2025by Allard Duursma and Jenna Russo

  The Primacy of Politics at the Local Level in UN Peace Operations

  The “primacy of politics” has become a central tenet of UN peacekeeping. This reflects a broad recognition that peacekeeping operations should be deployed in support of a political solution to conflict. In practice, however, the primacy of politics is often narrowly understood as referring to formal, national-level political processes. This overlooks the fact that politics […]

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  Policy Papers 12-19-2024by Evyn Papworth

  Enhancing Women’s Meaningful Involvement in Reintegration: Lessons from Cameroon

  Gender-sensitive approaches to disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) processes tend to focus on the exclusion of women as participants in DDR programs. There has been less attention to including women’s civil society organizations (CSOs) in the design and implementation of DDR programs. One recent effort to involve women’s CSOs in reintegration was a project led […]

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  Issue Briefs 12-17-2024by Phoebe Donnelly and Evyn Papworth

  Connecting Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment in UN Peace Operations

  Activists and researchers have long called attention to the harm UN peacekeepers can cause to populations where they deploy, including through sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) of civilians in the host community. More recently, researchers have pointed out that some UN peacekeepers also commit sexual harassment (SH) and assault against their peacekeeping colleagues while deployed. […]

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  Meeting Notes 12-05-2024

  Emerging Practices in New Mission Models: The Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti

  In October 2023, the UN Security Council authorized the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti, led by Kenya, to address escalating gang violence and reestablish security. With initial deployments underway and the mandate extended through 2025, the mission aims to stabilize the country amid a deteriorating humanitarian crisis. However, funding and resource shortages have […]

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