In 2020 (continued…)

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  Meeting Notes 02-20-2020

  Prioritizing and Sequencing Peacekeeping Mandates in 2020: The Case of UNMISS

  Since the signing of the Revitalized Agreement to Resolve the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) in September 2018, South Sudan has seen a sustained reduction in political violence. However, progress on Chapter I of the agreement, which calls for the establishment of a Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity, has largely stalled, and the agreement […]

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  Policy Papers 02-13-2020by Charles T. Hunt

  Protection through Policing: The Protective Role of UN Police in Peace Operations

  Since first deployed in 1960, United Nations police (UNPOL) have consistently been present in UN missions and have become increasingly important to achieving mission objectives. Since 1999, these objectives have often included the protection of civilians (POC), especially in places like the Central African Republic, Darfur, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, and South […]

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  Meeting Notes 02-06-2020

  Priorities for the 2021 Peacekeeping Ministerial: Reflections from an Expert Roundtable

  The Republic of Korea will host the next UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference in April 2021. In the context of the secretary-general’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative, the objective of the 2021 ministerial is to strengthen UN peacekeeping, in part by improving the performance and impact of UN peacekeeping operations, closing capability gaps through concrete pledges, […]

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  Policy Papers 01-21-2020by Arthur Boutellis and Michael Beary

  Sharing the Burden: Lessons from the European Return to Multidimensional Peacekeeping

  Since 2013, after years of near absence from the continent, a number of European countries, along with Canada, have again deployed to UN peacekeeping missions in Africa. The European presence in UN peacekeeping in Africa is now nearly at its largest since the mid-1990s. These countries provide much-needed high-end capabilities, as well as political and […]

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  Books 01-07-2020by Alan Doss

  A Peacekeeper in Africa: Learning from UN Interventions in Other People’s Wars

  For more than seven decades, UN peacekeeping operations have fulfilled an essential role in managing international crises. Alan Doss has spent a decade at the highest levels of UN peacekeeping in Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At a moment when peacekeeping faces enormous challenges, both politically in the […]

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