It’s easy to feel discouraged by how much work is left to achieve the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with their targets of ending poverty and hunger, achieving gender...
Introduction The Republic of Korea will host the next United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference in April 2021. In the context of the secretary-general’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P)...
by David Whineray Almost thirteen years ago, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 1769 mandating the deployment of a joint UN and African Union force (UNAMID) in Darfur. I was the...
On November 21, 2019, the International Peace Institute (IPI), the Stimson Center, and Security Council Report organized a workshop to discuss the mandate and political strategy of the United Nations...
by Jessica Roland and Marijke Kremin In the multilateral arena, this year marks several significant anniversaries: the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform...
ARTHUR BOUTELLIS AND MICHAEL BEARY Executive Summary Since 2013, after years of near absence from the continent, a number of European countries, along with Canada, have again deployed to UN...
A popular revolution in Sudan eight months ago ended the 30-year rule of dictator Omar Hassan al-Bashir, abruptly transforming the country’s governance institutions and beginning the reshaping of its...
by Fiona Garguilo From Hong Kong and France, to Russia and Iran, citizens across the world took to the streets in 2019 to vent their frustrations and push for change. Much has been written on the...
Executive Summary In recent decades, sanctions have increasingly been used as a foreign policy tool. The UN Security Council has imposed fourteen sanctions regimes alongside those imposed...
Today, the United Nations Security Council renewed the mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) with resolution 2502. As steps to wind down the...