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  Issue Briefs 09-15-2020by Masooma Rahmaty and Jasmine Jaghab

  Peacebuilding during a Pandemic: Keeping the Focus on Women’s Inclusion

  This year was expected to be an opportunity to assess the past twenty years of progress on the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda. Instead, it has been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has dominated the international community’s attention and put recent gains for WPS at risk. One of the areas most at risk […]

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  Policy Papers 09-14-2020by Jake Sherman and Florian Krampe

  The Peacebuilding Commission and Climate-Related Security Risks: A More Favourable Political Environment?

  Climate change and the associated climate-related security risks increase instability and have significant adverse effects on peacebuilding. Within the UN, however, there is a lack of consensus on which organs are most appropriate to respond to climate-related security risks. Most of the bodies addressing climate change do not address its intersection with peace and security, […]

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  Policy Papers 07-09-2020by Jimena Leiva Roesch and Masooma Rahmaty

  Localizing the 2030 Agenda in West Africa: Building on What Works

  Despite advancement in some areas, countries around the world are still not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The transformation needed to achieve these goals depends on innovation and initiatives that build on existing capacities and fit the needs of local contexts, yet the 2030 Agenda remains largely unknown at the local […]

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  Issue Briefs 07-20-2020by Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, Stéfanie von Hlatky, Savita Pawnday, Marie-Joëlle Zahar

  Gender Trainings in International Peace and Security: Toward a More Effective Approach

  As more and more states and organizations adopt a gendered approach to international policy, trainings on how to conduct gender-based analysis and integrate gender perspectives into policies and programming have proliferated. But despite this increase in gender trainings, it remains unclear how effective they have been due to challenges related to their design, delivery, targeting, […]

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  Issue Briefs 07-16-2020by Gabriel Delsol

  UN Peacekeeping Operations and Pastoralism-Related Insecurity: Adopting a Coordinated Approach for the Sahel

  In recent years, pastoralism has increasingly become associated with violent conflict. In the Sahel, pastoralism-related insecurity is directly linked to macro-level conflict dynamics in contexts with UN peacekeeping missions, including Mali, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Darfur, Abyei, and South Sudan. However, the UN system has been slow to adopt […]

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