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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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  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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  Issue Briefs 07-02-2020by Lesley Connolly and Jimena Leiva Roesch

  Unpacking the UN’s Development System Reform

  On January 1, 2019, a far-reaching reform of the UN development system went into effect. This was referred to by the deputy secretary-general as “the most ambitious reform of the United Nations development system in decades.” While this reform has only briefly been in place, questions have already arisen about its implementation and implications.This issue […]

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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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