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  Issue Briefs 09-24-2019By Sarah Taylor and Gretchen Baldwin

  The Global Pushback on Women’s Rights: The State of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

  For two decades, the women, peace, and security agenda has been the subject of policy development internationally, regionally, and nationally. But by many indicators, the global status of these commitments to gender equality is under threat. In the multilateral system, a growing number of states are questioning established standards of women’s rights, while international policy […]

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  Policy Papers 07-24-2019by Marc Jacquand

  Inside the Engine Room: Enabling the Delivery of UN Mandates in Complex Environments

  Particularly in the complex environments where it increasingly deploys, the UN depends on a range of functions to implement its mandate. These include but are not limited to provision of security, facilitation of access, medical support, support to staff welfare, logistics, coordination, and risk management. Compared to substantive tasks implemented as part of mandates, these […]

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  Issue Briefs 09-09-2019by Jake Sherman

  Action for Peacekeeping: One Year into the Implementation of the Declaration of Shared Commitments

  In September 2018, more than 100 UN member states signed a Declaration of Shared Commitments as part of the secretary-general’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative. The declaration was intended to rally member states to address urgent challenges facing contemporary peacekeeping operations. But one year later, the declaration has not yet translated into concrete action by […]

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  Issue Briefs 07-18-2019by Chuck Thiessen

  Preventing Violent Extremism While Promoting Human Rights: Toward a Clarified UN Approach

  In response to the threat of violent extremism, the UN has adopted a comprehensive approach that involves both aligning ongoing interventions with the goals of preventing violent extremism (PVE) and implementing PVE-specific programming. These initiatives aspire to use human rights-based approaches as opposed to hard-security counterterrorism responses. To date, however, there has been inadequate research […]

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  Policy Papers 05-28-2019by Lesley Connolly and Laurie Mincieli

  Sustaining Peace in Liberia: New Reforms, New Opportunities?

  The reforms to the UN development system, effective on January 1, 2019, marked the start of a new period for the UN presence in Liberia, making it one of the earliest test cases of a “next generation” UN country team. This comes less than a year after two other transitions: the withdrawal of the UN […]

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