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  Issue Briefs 06-23-2020by Gretchen Baldwin and Sarah Taylor

  Uniformed Women in Peace Operations: Challenging Assumptions and Transforming Approaches

  Over the past twenty years, UN peace operations have made progress toward gender equality. Most of their mandates refer to women or gender, and the UN and member states have agreed to numerical targets to increase the percentage of women peacekeepers. Meeting, and exceeding, these targets, however, will require the UN to better understand the […]

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  Issue Briefs 06-08-2020by Agathe Sarfati

  Operationalizing the Sustaining Peace Agenda: Lessons from Burkina Faso, Liberia, and Papua New Guinea

  The twin resolutions on peacebuilding and sustaining peace adopted by the General Assembly and Security Council in 2016 made a breakthrough in the UN’s conception of peacebuilding. Significant work has since been undertaken to reconfigure the UN system to work toward the implementation of these resolutions, and the UN Peacebuilding Commission has launched a comprehensive […]

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  Issue Briefs 03-23-2020by Wasim Mir

  Financing the United Nations Secretariat: Resolving the UN’s Liquidity Crisis

  The UN is currently facing its most challenging financial situation in nearly two decades. Despite taking emergency measures to reduce spending, the UN Secretariat’s severe liquidity problems have been getting progressively worse, to the point where they are starting to affect the UN’s ability to carry out its mandates. The main cause of this crisis […]

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  Issue Briefs 10-30-2019by Paul D. Williams

  Lessons for “Partnership Peacekeeping” from the African Union Mission in Somalia

  Deployed to Mogadishu in March 2007, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) operates through a complicated and extensive system of partnerships. This has been referred to as the “AMISOM model” of “partnership peacekeeping.” While this specific configuration of forces and mechanisms is unlikely to be repeated, AMISOM remains the longest-standing case of a peace […]

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  Issue Briefs 10-28-2019by Sarah Taylor and Gretchen Baldwin

  Focus on 2020: Opportunities for the Twentieth Anniversary of Resolution 1325

  As the twentieth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace, and security (WPS) approaches, the ad hoc nature of and limited accountability for implementation of the WPS agenda are undermining its full promise. This is despite increasing recognition that efforts to build and sustain peace are dependent upon the full participation […]

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