In 2019 (continued…)

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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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  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 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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  Issue Briefs 07-16-2019by Daniel Forti and Lesley Connolly

  Pivoting from Crisis to Development: Preparing for the Next Wave of UN Peace Operations Transitions

  UN peace operations are going through an accelerated period of reconfiguration and drawdown. Between June 2017 and March 2018, long-standing peacekeeping missions in Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia closed, while the mission in Haiti was reconfigured into a transitional peacekeeping mission. Looking ahead, the Security Council has mandated the closure of the peacekeeping mission in Darfur […]

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  Issue Briefs 06-24-2019by Alice Debarre

  Safeguarding Humanitarian Action in Sanctions Regimes

  There are currently fourteen UN sanctions regimes, which member states are legally required to implement. Many of these are implemented in the context of armed conflict, where international humanitarian law outlines obligations to protect the provision of and access to principled humanitarian action. But despite efforts to make sanctions regimes more targeted, they continue to […]

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