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  Issue Briefs 01-31-2021by Lisa Sharland

  Women, Peace, and Security Mandates for UN Peacekeeping Operations: Assessing Influence and Impact

  Peacekeeping mission mandates now routinely include language on women, peace, and security (WPS). Despite this progress, negotiations in the Security Council on the inclusion of WPS language in mandates have at times been contested, and it is not always clear that more detailed or “stronger” language on WPS in mandates translates to changes in peacekeeping […]

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  Issue Briefs 01-25-2021by Damian Lilly

  Considering the Protection of Civilians during UN Peacekeeping Transitions

  In contrast to recent transitions, the next wave of UN peacekeeping transitions is set to occur in contexts where civilians continue to face threats of physical violence. These transitions are likely to have major implications for the protection of civilians (POC), which should be a key consideration for the UN when planning these missions’ exit […]

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  Issue Briefs 10-14-2020by Lisa Sharland

  Bouncing Back from Rock Bottom: A New Era for the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations?

  The 2020 report of the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (C-34) marked the culmination of nearly a decade of efforts to improve the committee’s working methods and deliver a more relevant report. Because the report was restructured around the eight thematic priorities of the Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative, it also helped translate the […]

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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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  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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